Riverside Community College District
Attention All Financial Aid Students
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION US POSTAGE PAID SAN BERNARDINO, CA PERMIT 1673
Riverside Community College District THE SHORTCUT TO YOUR FUTURE
Riverside City College 4800 Magnolia Ave. Riverside, CA 92506
There are some rules and regulations that financial aid students need to be aware of for the academic school year. If you get a grant and then withdraw from all your classes, you may owe money back to the Federal Financial Aid Program. (If you are receiving a loan and then withdraw, repayment is according to the rules of the loan program you signed up with.) Be aware that dropping below twelve units (even one class) may effect/change your financial aid award amount. Please check with the financial aid office on how withdrawing of classes can affect you. Before you make withdrawing of classes your final decision, whether it be one or all of your classes, please make an appointment with your EOPS Counselor to discuss your situation and any options you may have. The EOPS Office wants to support you in your decisions, but also wants you to be aware of changes that may affect your future educational goals. “Consider all your options before you drop your classes-how will it affect you in the long run!”
Editor: Cecilia Alvarado
EOPS Staff Cecilia Alvarado. . . . EOPS & CARE Director
Moreno Valley
Claudette Ellis. . . . . . Administrative Assistant to the Director
Adrienne McWilliams and Andre Jones, EOPS trainng technicians at Moreno Valley College, are ready to serve you by making your counseling appointments and any other needed EOPS services. Our students workers, Miasha Robinsin and Alissa Haywood are also there to assist staff and students and make the EOPS office run more smoothly. FYI, the new adjunct counselor, Susanna Galvez, is now familiar with EOPS policies and procedures is ready to start her counseling duties and ready to serve all the EOPS students at the Moreno Valley College.
Charlene Jeter. . . . EOPS Full Time Counselor
Norco - Faces of Success We would like to congratulate Norco College EOPS students Mr. Ernesto Navarro and Ms. Jami Tyus for being selected and featured in a student spotlight presentation at the March Board of Trustees Meeting. Entitled “Faces of Success: A Spotlight of Three Norco College Students Participating in Special Funded Programs,” the video highlighted students at Norco College who have overcome life challenges and are succeeding in college! Ernesto and Jami also addressed the board at the meeting and did a fabulous job representing EOPS and Norco College. Congratulations on a job well done. Praises go to Sylvia Retamoza, office assistant who has been overseeing the EOPS Norco office. Sylvia has a new student worker, Osvaldo Campos, who cans assist her and EOPS students in the office to make the necessary counseling appointments. Again, thanks to Sylvia for all her hard work and welcome to Osvaldo
Mark Longway. . . . EOPS Full Time Counselor Marisela Alcarez . . . . . . . . . . EOPS Specialist
THANK YOU
Robert Leyva. . . . . . . . . . . . . EOPS Educational Advisor
The EOPS office would like to thank Liem Nguyen and Brett Clinton, office assistants at Riverside City College, for putting a lot of time and effort and making the EOPS counter run smoothly throughout this Spring semester. We would also like to acknowledge our current EOPS volunteer staff, Emery Palm, Angela Dart, and Bobbye Morris, who have helped the EOPS office survive during this year’s budget crisis.
Andre Jones. . . . . . . EOPS Training Technician Adrienne McWilliams . . . . . . EOPS Training Technician Slyvia Retamoza . . . Office Assistant
Allow me to introduce myself; my name is Cecilia Alvarado, new EOPS Director for Riverside City College. I am a former EOPS student from a community college, a former EOPS student from Cal-State Fullerton and master graduate from Pepperdine University. Knowing the former about me allows you to understand why this position is such an honor for me.
My mission in EOPS is to help students reach their academic dreams. I realize that education can sometimes be challenging. What got me through those tough academic and personal times was constant positive reinforcement and great support service programs like EOPS. I have worked long enough in higher education to know first hand that the most common challenges for students are math, English, low confidence and motivation. To make it in higher education or in any aspect of life you must believe in yourself. Give yourself a pep talk, reward yourself often, and most importantly, seek out good supportive friends. Motivate yourself! Hard work and a strong belief in yourself will get you through those tough courses and help you reach all of you academic dreams. EOPS provides the resources for your success; counseling, tutoring, grants, books vouchers, higher education information, and, most important, a caring staff. With the assistance of EOPS and positive thought you will make it! Life has come full circle for me. Where my academic career began is where I have returned to professionally. I am an EOPS alumnus and it gives me great honor to be considered an EOPS success story. If you believe you can do it, then just do it! I am living proof. I leave you with a simple yet powerful quote. Cecilia Alvarado
Reminder to All EOPS Students
Food Boxes – There are many agencies that provide food boxes for free or at minimal cost. Below are two links to agencies that provide a food boxes. The boxes usually contain enough food for a family of four and might include meat, veggies, dairy etc. Their might be some minimal cost involved. https://www.angelfoodministries.com/ 5
Think Positive
“You can not un-educate a person.” Ceasar Chavez
Money Saving Tips, Basement Bargains
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April 2010
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1st Counseling Appointment
2nd Counseling Appointment
3rd Counseling Appointment
Update Educational Plan
Progress Report
One Semester Ed. Plan
Completed by April 8, 2010
Complete April 19 to May19, 2010
Complete by June 9, 2010
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Counseling Corner - Greetings from Mark Longway and Charlene Jeter We would also like to welcome back Robert Leyva to another semester of EOPS evening counseling and also welcome three new adjunct counselors to the EOPS family. The new counseling faculty will consist of Marianna Moreno – Norco College, Susanna Galvez – Moreno Valley College, and Casey Orr – Riverside City College. We welcome these new additions and hope to make counseling appointments more available to our EOPS students. By now you should have completed 2 academic appointments and looking forward to scheduling your third. Remember you only have until the June 9th to make your last appointment. COMING SOON in May/June! Attend one of the EOPS workshops preparing you for those stressful finals and be eligible to receive an educational survival kit.
Care Corner
To Achieve Your Dreams Remember Your ABC’s
Care Program
Avoid negative sources, people, places things, and habits.
The CARE program is a component of the EOPS Program. We currently have 65 students enrolled in the CARE Program and looking for more students that qualify for next semester. CARE provides extra benefits to EOPS students who are single parent, head of household, over 18 years of age, have children under the age of 14, and are receiving cash aid benefits. Eligible CARE students receive special workshops, counseling services, textbook grants, childcare assistance, bus and parking passes, and meal vouchers. If you think you are eligible for CARE, come to the EOPS office and speak to one of our staff members. HELP US GROW and spread the word to your friends about the EOPS/CARE Program.
Why Do I Need to See My Progress Report?
Believe in yourself. Consider things from every angle. Don’t give up, and don’t give in. Enjoy life today, yesterday is gone, tomorrow may never come. Family and friends are hidden treasures-seek them and enjoy their riches. Give more than you planned to give. Hang onto you dreams. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Keep on trying no matter how hard it seems; it will get easier. Love yourself first and most. Make it happen. Never lie, cheat or steal-always strike a fair deal. Open your eyes and see things as they really are. Quitters never win and winners never quit.
Alumni Gift for Those Graduating Spring 2010 Are you graduating, transferring or meeting your educational goal this spring? If so please let the EOPS office know so that your EOPS regalia gift can be ordered and then wear it with your cap and gown on graduation day. If you have any questions please contact Robert Leyva at 951-222-8124.
Money Saving Tips, Basement Bargains Sales – Look in the newspaper for sales. Especially chicken breast! You can buy it as cheap as 99 cents a pound. Buy it in bulk and freeze it in Ziploc bags. Hair Products – Try Sally’s Beauty supplies and buy generic brands for less money. 2
Read, study and learn about everything important in your life. Stop procrastinating. Take control of your own destiny. Understand yourself in order to better understand others. Visualize it.
Money Saving Tips, Basement Bargains
Want it more than anything.
Second Hand Store – Try browsing the second hand store; you will be amazed at the items you will find. EOPS Staff found a coach purse for $30, Hollister jeans for $5, Abercrombie sweater for $2.
Xccelerate your efforts. You are a unique creation-nothing can replace you. Zero in on your target and go for it
Outdoor Swap Meet/ Indoor Swap Meet – Bargains on lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, clothing and items for your home.
- Author Unknown
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Do you feel like your goals are not achievable? Overwhelmed or been put down lately? Don’t be discouraged. So were some of the great people in history and look what happened to them. You need to motivate and believe in yourself! Creative and imaginative people are often not recognized by their teachers, family, or society. History is full of illustrations that might give you encouragement. Consider the following “notable failures “:
Edward James Olmos grew up on a small community of East Los Angeles, his parents divorced when he was eight, and he began acting as a way to stay out of gangs. He is now a great success a role model. Albert Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read; his parents
thought he was retarded, and was advised by a teacher to drop out of school stating, “you’ll never amount to anything, Einstein.”
Isaac Newton did poorly in school and was allowed to continue only because he failed at running the family farm. Oscar De La Hoya grew up in East Los Angeles and lived in a neighborhood where drugs, gangs and murder were a norm.
Thomas Edison teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything. He tried 745 times before he succeeded
with the light bulb.
F.W. Woolworth got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21, but his employers would not let him wait on customers because he “didn’t have enough sense.” Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper job because he “had no good ideas.” Jaime Escalante did not know any English when he moved to California and took a job as a busboy and dishwasher while attending Pasadena City College.
Just do it!
So many students ask that question. The purpose of the progress report is to inform you of your grades at the middle of the semester instead of having to wait to the end of the semester. Knowing your status in class can keep you motivated and informed of your educational progress. By knowing your current grade you can give yourself a “reality check” on whether your are” fine” or is there anything you can do to “fix” your grade. Think of the the progress report as helpful information. Consider your options during progress report time: discuss your situation with the EOPS Counselor, talk to the instructor, make your tutorial appointments and keep up with the class. The progress report is beneficial to the EOPS students as well as the EOPS program (and also keep instructors on their toes!) The EOPS program wants to help you become successful.
Don’t Give Up!
Louis Pasteur was rated as “mediocre” in chemistry when he attended college. Abraham Lincoln entered the Black Hawk War as a private and came out a captain. Henry Ford barely made it through high school. Pablo Picasso was pulled out of school at age ten because he was a poor student. Oprah Winfrey was told not to apply for a talk-show host job because there was no room for a black woman in that field. She fired the agent who told her this.
Joe Paterno, coach of the Penn State University football team, says losing games is good for the team because it helps the players learn what they are doing wrong.
Charles Goodyear bungled an experiment and discovered vulcanized rubber. Alfred Butts invented the game SCRABBLE after he lost his job as an architect during the Great Depression. Charles Darrow was an unemployed heating engineer who developed the game MONOPOLY. It was rejected by the first toy company he presented it to.
Malcolm X copied the entire dictionary word for word to sharpen his vocabulary, writing, and reading skills, while he was in prison. R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on. John Creasey, a famous English novelist, got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs. Reporter to Thomas Edison: “How
does it feel to have failed 10,000 times?” Thomas Edison: “I have not failed 10,000 times...I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.”
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