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PCC's Gateway to College opens doors to students nationally
Photos and story by James Hill
PORTLAND, Ore. – Portland Community College’s Gateway to College program is launching its innovative dropout recovery program in two U.S. colleges this year. Representatives from Riverside Community College in California and Montgomery College in Maryland will be in Portland to attend the three-day training session beginning Wednesday, Jan. 21. The Gateway to College program will be replicated at eight colleges over the next two years. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in partnership with the Carnegie Foundation of New York, the Ford Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation fund the project.The kick-off reception at the Performing Arts Center on PCC’s Sylvania Campus will include remarks by Deborah Wilds of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A Gateway student, PCC President Jerry Berger, and Nan Poppe, president of PCC’s Extended Learning Campus, will also speak. Gateway to College (formerly College Bound) is a nationally recognized education model that serves at-risk youth between 16 and 20 years old who have dropped out of school. Gateway to College replication kick-offWho: Portland Community College, Gateway to College program.What: PCC announces the first two sites and program start-up for its innovative Gateway to College replication project. Gateway earned a major grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, $4.8 million, to take its successful alternative program to other parts of the country. When: 4:00 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004 Where: Performing Arts Center, Sylvania Campus, Portland Community College, 12000 SW 49th Ave., Portland, Ore.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »