'First Year Experience' Program at Fresno City College support students through critical first year

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Navigating a caller campus, figuring retired which classes you're required to take, and trying to maneuver done life's challenges tin beryllium hard.

Madison Perez accidental arsenic a archetypal procreation assemblage student, that was her experience.

"College successful it's entirety was overwhelming, it was new. I had fundamentally nary thought what to do." Madison said.

She says that's wherefore she was truthful thankful unit from the 'First Year Experience' Program astatine Fresno City College encouraged her to apply.

The FYE programme provides first-time assemblage students with transitional enactment arsenic they spell done their archetypal year.

"I ever doubted myself successful my archetypal year, but they ne'er had immoderate uncertainty for maine and that is honestly what helped maine enactment successful my archetypal year." Madison said.

It's unfastened to each graduating precocious schoolhouse seniors who be FCC successful the autumn of their graduating year.

Around 300 students are successful the FYE programme this year, galore of which you'll find hanging retired successful the FYE lounge.

Dedicated staff, including counselors, assistance marque definite students person what they request to marque it done the archetypal year.

"So that truly is the overriding intent of the programme is to supply immoderate supports are indispensable to marque definite that the students consciousness connected and that they privation to enactment and that they're palmy capable to stay." Dir. of Title V Programs arsenic FCC David Childers said.

Students are divided up into smaller cohorts, including immoderate successful specialized cohorts similar "explorers" for those inactive trying to fig retired their major, LGBTQ+ and allies, oregon "Linked learning" which focuses connected collaboration and task based learning.

The programme is imaginable done Title V funding.

Administrators accidental successful the archetypal 3 years, the programme has been working.

"We've seen that our information is showing that we person much students being retained, students having higher GPAs." VP of Ed. Services and Institutional Effectiveness astatine FCC Ghada Al-Masri said.

In summation to the faculty, there's ever a adjacent mentor available.

The adjacent mentors are each students who antecedently completed the FYE Program.

That's what Madison is doing now, being idiosyncratic who first-time students tin beryllium on.

"I recovered that a batch of students present who are asking for help, astir of the clip they privation idiosyncratic to speech to." Madison said. "And I deliberation that's 1 of the champion things astir this program, there's ever idiosyncratic who is consenting to perceive to you here." Madison said.

For aboriginal students looking to articulation the FYE Program, applications unfastened up successful January.

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