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Volume 81 Issue 4
Southern California College tour Students enjoy their spring break touring colleges around Southern California BY VIRIDIANA CASTELLANOS TIMES STAFF
Spring break is when college students are expected to party all night and sleep all day. However, for 42 San Jose City College students, their spring break was quite the opposite. With the help of Lezra Chenportillo; the head coordinator of this trip, San Jose City College took 42 students on a tour around Southern California to visit seven college campuses in four days. The trip was open to everyone and the students were selected based on their applications that they’d submitted. The application was pretty simple, just some basic personal information and a one-page essay that talked about why the student wanted to attend the trip. More than 42 students applied to attend, but since there was only a limited space they had to choose based on the student’s applications. The trip was completely free;
Photo credits to Margot uchicua San Jose City College students pose infront of the USC campus on Monday March 21.
it included transportation which was a charter bus for everyone who attended lodging and meals. Early in the morning at 6 a.m on Monday March 21, the students went on their journey and their first stop was USC. The students got there around noon and got a tour of the schools Cinema Arts, where students
got a private tour of a formers student’s studio who is majoring in stop motion animation. After a long day touring the school and the community around it, the students finally got to their hotel around 9 p.m. After USC they drove down to UC San Diego, San Diego State, CSU Long Beach, UCLA, UC
Santa Barbara, and finally CSU SLO. The trip took 4 days in total, they had workshops in between and a lot of time to get to know their fellow group mates. “It was a nice experience because I got to know more about the different colleges and I could see the different diversity
between them” said Margot Uchicua who is majoring in Graphic Design. Students were allowed to explore around on their own, not only just inside campus but outside as well.
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The new San Jose City College students make sparks fly Welding classes designed for Local 39 Engineers BY LARRY L. HARRIS
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Student Robert Almdida perfects a weld in the new welding lab at San Jose City College.
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San Jose City College is now home to a state of the art welding lab training 30 welding apprentices from Stationary Engineers local 39. Vice President of Administrative Affairs, Jorge Escobar said in the first issue 2016 of its monthly newsletter “The Campus View” that, “I believe that the combination of welding stations, welding equipment, and fume extraction system is perhaps the only one of this kind in the West Coast.” The class is career centered developing real world problem solving skills Welding Student Robert Almdida said, “I really like the Class and I hope to get proficient in welding all sorts of structural steel. The program is good, it is informative, you get a lot of lab time. It is real hands on and is beneficial to the companies we work for because you learn to do the things you have to do on the job.”
According to Associate Dean of Career & Technical Education, Maniphone Dickerson and citing from the California Labor Department, the Occupational outlook for welding skills is robust with: l 2014-2015 total number employed in welding occupations: 6,400 just in the Bay Area l 2016 projections for welding occupations: 1,874 for California with projection of total openings for the Bay Area estimated at 30-35 percent (560-650) l 2017-2022 projections for welding occupations: 30,600 for California with projection of total welding occupational annual openings of 930. The Bay Area welding occupation projection is at 30-35 percent (279-325 welding occupation annual openings.) Dickerson went on to state the midrange starting salaries begin in the mid to high $60,000 range. The current welding programs consist of three welding classes designed for members of the Stationary Engineers local 39 as part of their apprentice program. The program will eventually evolve into an AS degree in welding and be open to all interested students.
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