City Counseling Connection -- Empowering Students: 2019

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.

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Giving Back

San Diego City College is holding its Spring Week of Service on 4/14 to 4/19. Volunteer opportunities to give back to the community include helping Father Joe's Villages, Salvation Army, and Chicano Park. Sign Up and register online at www.sdcity.edu/SignUpWeekofService.

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Teen Kindness on 5 Year Old's Birthday

Teenagers sometimes get a bad rap. Here's a story to brighten anyone's day and hat's off to these teens in South Brunswick, New Jersey.

Friday, March 15, 2019

Earn 9% Interest!

Interested in earning 9% interest on a Certificate of Deposit? California Coast Credit Union is celebrating their 90th anniversary and they are letting people open CDs with this great rate. I challenge you to find another Certificate of Deposit that is FDIC insured with a higher rate.

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Auction by Former Basketball Star

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, former LA Lakers center, recently auctioned championship rings and other sports mementos. No, it wasn't because he had fallen on hard financial times. Read about why he chose to auction some of the mementos/highlights from his career: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Memorabilia Nets Nearly $3M At Auction appeared on CBS Los Angeles.

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Online Resources

Are you sure you're ready to take an online class? Check out these tutorials to see if you're prepared to make the leap to online learning. These resources were forwarded by Georgina Garcia.

Getting into Competitive Universities

Why aren't transfer students considered at competitive universities? What can be done to provide opportunities for these students to be admitted? Community College Transfers Outperform High Schoolers at Top Colleges, So Why Do We Ignore Them? appeared in Forbes. The article was forwarded by Georgina Garcia.