City Counseling Connection -- Empowering Students: January 2016

Welcome!

We are Ray and Georgina, counselors at City. Week of Service. Teens show kindness. Auction raises $3M. Are you ready for online learning? Roadblocks to getting into competitive universities. Community Colleges Train Doctors. On-site interviews. A dying father. 10K tip. Job Interviews at City College. Budgeting. Colleges that change lives. Jobs. Saving lives.

The veterans page: Crisis line. Military benefits. Veterans Day. Suicide awareness. A surprised 8-year-old. Honoring heroic dog. Honorably discharged veterans shop tax-free. Forever GI Bill. Father takes care of 4 children. Integrate Marine Training? Robotic legs. Costs of war. Saluting a fallen soldier. 300K Lotto winner. Vets and painkillers. Vet resources. Grandmother of veteran's family deported. Housing the homeless. Veteran finds healing through adopting a cat. Wounded Marines help others.

Empowering students to fulfill their dreams through education.

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

College Rankings

Want to find out a college's 4-year graduation rate? How many students are accepted at a particular school? Cost? US News & World Reports has compiled the data to help you research your ideal university.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

The Education Myth

This video produced for Citrus College shows why education is not enough in the modern economy. Do you agree? Written transcription.

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

The Power to Change

Alberto Vasquez didn't think he belonged in college after a troubled past. Now he is helping students by relaying his experience. "Ex-Con Leads Youths Into College After Major Turnaround" was published in the San Diego Union-Tribune on January 4, 2016.