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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2018 | VOL LXXII ISSUE 6
Graduate runs in November elections Former Citrus College student is in the running for Pomona city council
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spotting an opportunity: SpOTIFY COLLABORATION IN THE WORKS
BY KARA ELDER STAFF REPORTER
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A former Citrus College student ran for Pomona City Council, District Two as part of the election on Nov. 6. Jacqueline Elizalde-Macias has been a public servant for many years. She worked Jacqueline Elizalde-Macias at San Bernardino County Human Services and Social Services. “I’m around public service all day, every day,” Elizalde said. “So, whether I am a volunteer or doing it through employment, I love it. I love serving my community.” Elizalde said she was elected to the Pomona Library Board of Trustees when she started school at Citrus, when she was 28 years old. She served on the Pomona Library Board of Trustee for seven years. She currently is Pomona’s Cultural Arts Commissioner. She said her experiences at Citrus helped her become the woman she is today. S E E C O U N C I L • PA GE 5
College plans to snuff cigarettes on campus
Citrus College Visual and Performing Arts division in talks with Spotify for student band to become their house band Read more on pages 8 and 9 Photo Illustration by Michael Quintero Clarion
Policy changes could ban smoking at Citrus College BY NATALIE MALINS STAFF REPORTER
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Citrus College may be the only college in California that has no smoking regulations. A survey conducted in May 2016 by Citrus Dean of Students Maryann Tolano-Leveque put California community colleges in three categories based on smoking policies. Out of 34 colleges Tolano-Leveque surveyed, Citrus was one of three in the “Smoking Campus” category, which she said did not specify smoking zones. The same survey was conducted in October and Citrus was the only remaining college in this category. All other colleges changed their policies to having smoking zones or ban smoking. Another survey by the California Youth Advocacy Network in 2017 gave Citrus College an F in a college S E E S MO K E • PA GE 5
Tuition-free enrollment for Qualified freshmen Citrus College Promise Program gives money incentive for college completion BY KARA ELDER STAFF REPORTER
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The Citrus College Promise Program is covering mandatory fees and tuition for hundred of students. Vice President of Academic Affairs Arvid Spor said the College Promise is a two-year program in which firstyear students can enroll through an early decision process at their high school. Citrus College trustee Edward Ortell wrote in an article, “students who live in the college’s service area but attend private school or are homeschooled, must attend an Early Decision workshop.” Dean of Enrollment Services Gerald Sequeira said that these workshops would be available for private school or home-schooled students
on campus. Ortell said other promise programs only provide funding for one year, but the Citrus promise program funds students for two years. “That’s what makes us different from the rest,” Ortell said. Ortell cited the national student loan debt of $1.4 trillion as reason for the college to provide tuition assistance. “The Promise helps cut student debt in half,” Ortell said. Because of exceeding debt and the need for a more skilled workforce, community colleges throughout the state have started “promise programs,” which cover tuition and other costs associated with attending college. The Citrus College Foundation funds the majority of the Promise
Program with donations. Spor said to qualify students must go through an early decision process, where they go through orientation and assessment. Students then form an educational plan with a Citrus counselor. By simplifying the process, Sequeira said that more students should qualify for the Promise Program. Sequeira said by removing the placement assessment, recruiting out-of-district students will be easier since the process will become simplified. To enroll in the College Promise Program, Spor said students must finish the Free Application for Federal Student Aid application. Sequeira said in an email Promise Program requirements include applying to the Extended Opportunity
Programs and Services program and signing up with the I Will Complete College program. “Once they’ve done those steps, then they can be considered part of the Promise Program,” Spor said. Spor said students must also be enrolled in a minimum of 12 units in the fall and spring semesters, as part of rules held by the Promise Program. Sequeira said in an email the promise program does not restrict the maximum amount of units a student can enroll in. “We pay as many units as a student is enrolled in fall and spring,” Sequeira said in an email. “The idea is we want them to graduate in two years, the only way you can graduate in two years if you only count fall and spring is if you take 15 units each semester.” S E E P R OM IS E • PAGE 5