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June 16, 2005
Contacts: Suzanne Higgins
suzanne.higgins@gcmail.maricopa.edu 623.845.3808 Patricia Rhodes Vogel
pr.vogel@gcmail.maricopa.edu 623.845.3014
GCC Reading Clinic Features One Teacher for Every Two Students
Children and adults who struggle with reading, dislike reading, or have a reading disability such as dyslexia can overcome these obstacles through personalized, expert help at Glendale Community College (GCC). Since 1976, GCC's Reading Clinic has helped more than 10,000 children and adults improve their most important skill-- reading. The program boasts a teacher for every two students—in many ways it resembles an intensive tutoring experience. The July session of Reading Clinic offers a choice of three class times, Monday through Thursday, for four weeks, beginning July 11 and ending August 4. The cost of the course is $360 and there is an additional $50 fee for mandatory pre-testing of each student. Classes are held on the GCC campus at 6000 W. Olive Avenue in Glendale. Call 623.845.3805 for more information about the class, pre-testing and how to register.
GCC North Invites Public Review of Plans for Growth, July 7 and Aug. 3
Two open, community forums to review plans for new buildings and other major facilities upgrades at Glendale Community College North will be held in Anthem locations. On Thurs., July 7, 2005, at 7:00 p.m., a forum will be held in the Anthem Community Center, 41130 N. Freedom Way. On Wed., Aug. 3, 2005, at 6:30 p.m., a forum will be held in the Anthem Library, 41130 N. Freedom Way. In Nov. 2004, voters overwhelmingly approved $105 million in bond funding to support GCC's overall facilities needs. These forums will review how a portion of these funds will be used to help GCC North expand to meet the growing needs of its students. A satellite of the GCC campus, GCC North at 57th Avenue and Happy Valley Road now operates at its capacity. GCC North opened in fall 2000, and has served more than 6,600 students since then. Enrollment for the current semester is 1,461. Planned expansion responds to projections indicating that GCC North must be able to support a 30% increase in its student population over the next 10 years. For information, call 623.845.4001 or 623.845. 3006.
GCC and Peoria Unified School District Help Girls Explore Technology
On June 9, in an attempt to dispel the myth that only boys are interested in IT (Information Technology) careers, Glendale Community College (GCC), in partnership with the Peoria Unified School District (PUSD) and the National Academy Foundation, hosted the "GET Ready" opening-day event of the GET project (Girls Exploring Technology). It was held on the GCC campus at 6000 W. Olive Ave. in Glendale. Nationally, males studying IT far outnumber females. Of the 353 students taking IT classes at Peoria high schools this year, only 32 were female. The GET pilot project is an attempt to change this trend in PUSD by targeting seventh and eighth grade girls at elementary schools that feed into Peoria high schools. Female high school students already in technology programs mentor the younger girls through the GET project, which includes peer mentoring, monthly meetings and other activities. In the morning session of GET Ready at GCC, participants attended a computer workshop where they experimented with animation programming software and worked with web design software called Flash. The afternoon session featured games that showed how computer networking actually functions. They also heard female speakers who discussed their careers in IT. Sheryl Benavides, GCC Business and Information Technology faculty who helped plan the day's events, said, "The interest in the IT field needs be planted in young female students early--before they accept the myth that IT appeals only to boys."
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