Going to college and being job ready when students finish college can be a breeze, according to Stages Clip.
Stages Clip, which offered workshops to improve students’ performance in college and in the work force, is a Community of Learning, Inquiry and Practice.
According to Sonia Jeffery, staff in the Outreach Department, clips are formed based on a particular need, or if you want to make an improvement to a particular area of learning.
Jeffery went on to say, “that seed money is from the college,” and that STAGES are “The Strategic Teams Aligning Goals thru Engagement and Services.”
Angela Williams, a member of clip and one of the instructors involved in the presentation of the workshops, said that it’s different people focusing on student success while in college and being more prepared for the work force.
The clip has been together about a year, and that they received a grant to help them reach their goals by coming up with ideas to be more helpful to the students.
The members of clip are students, advisors and instructors with the student’s well being at the heart of the matter.
Right now the workshops are going on all around campus and will continue until April 17.
The purpose of the Stages Clip is to re-design Outreach to provide “outreach” and “in-reach ” services that address student recruitment and retention, improve access and awareness, engage and empower students to learn about, assess, practice and explore their skills as they move from one stage to another in their college/academic life.
Thereby, they develop students who are civic-minded and passionate about being life-long learners, as stated in the Interact news-letter.
Stephanie Hale, a member of the staff working in the Student Success Lab, said that the clip has been going on for this school year, and it has been a gift to her to have a chance to do something she has been wanting to do for a while, which is to conduct a workshop titled, “Write From The Heart.”
This workshop will be presented Feb. 22 and March 2 in the Fireside Room.