TRIUNFO TRIUMPH(in partnership with El Centro Student Services) |
Major Program Goals include: 1) Service Learning for CSU undergraduates as Mentors and Role Models who are often first generation students; 2) Raising the achievement and self esteem of the young tutees; 3) Decreasing dropout rates; 4) Supporting at-risk youth with youth mentoring for academic achievement; 5) Providing a welcoming environment for young students and their families on the CSU campus; 6) Promoting positive messages for life and university opportunities for success; 7) Generating community support; 8) Connecting campus and local youth; 9) Promoting excellent group identification with successful CSU role models; 10) Forming the base of a potentially strong recruitment strategy and a retention program at CSU; 11) Acting as a partnership with collaboration of joint programming between CSMATE, El Centro, and PSD; 12) Inspiring citizens to action. Rationale: The existing Tutoring Program is now in its fourth year of funding from the Bohemian Foundation Pharos Fund in Ft. Collins, CO and we can trace its present growth to a meeting in 2005 wherein the Bell Policy Center 2005 Report, “Colorado: The State of Opportunity”, was seriously discussed among the Program Coordinators, the Directors of CSMATE and of El Centro at CSU. What the Report identified as The Cycle of Opportunity and the Cycle Self Sufficiency in Low Income families of all ethnicities were those motivating factors for the Directors to collaborate to seek external funding to expand the reach of the Triunfo/Triumph Program and since that time the Program has grown exponentially, as is evident by these demographics: In 2007-08, there were 213 K-12 students: Latino 83 %; Asian-Pacific-Islander 4 %; African American: 1.3 %; Native American 0 %; Anglo: 11.7 %. This program is an ongoing Opportunity for these young students who are here on campus weekly for tutoring and the benefits to these young underserved students are exponential. Begun by El Centro with a small group of parents in 1992, 2009-10 is the18th year of the Triunfo/Triumph Tutoring Program, and the fifth year of CSMATE’s partnership with El Centro. Before CSMATE and El Centro joined forces, the Tutoring Program was run by El Centro and held in the University’s Lory Student Center. Location: Triunfo/Triumph Tutoring is conducted at CSMATE in CSMATE's two state-of-the-art Learning Studios. To view the Learning Studios, please visit http://www.csmate.colostate.edu/facilities/Learning_Studio.html . Free bus transportation is provided picking up the K-5 students from “targeted” elementary schools in Poudre School District ( Harris, Laurel, Putnam) and bringing them to CSU for Tutoring and transporting them home after Tutoring), paid for with the external funding. A snack as “brain food” at Tutoring is also provided. All students are welcome from the community if their parents transport their own children. The CSU Tutors: Many of the CSU tutors are first generation students and/or Key Academic Community students, and there is a very high level of commitment of time and resources among these model undergraduates. CSU Triunfo/ Triumph tutors are very diverse. Ethnicity: Students of Color: 44 %; Anglo =55%; The Majors include: Math, Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Natural Resources, Zoology, Computer Science, Chemistry, Business, Spanish, Science and Math Education, Pre-Med, Human Development and Family Studies, Engineering. Funding at $78,000 for all four years has been generously provided by the Bohemian Foundation Pharos Fund. This is the fourth year that the Bohemian Foundation has funded this Program. Additional support has been also provided from the College of Natural Sciences and the Ft. Collins Community Foundation. External funds are continuously being sought to continue and expand the program. Please contact Dr. Christine Jones at CSMATE 491-2115 or Mr. Rich Salas at El Centro at 491-0590 for more information.
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