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MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Officials with Madera Community College held a ribbon cutting ceremonial for their caller Multi Cultural Center and Veterans Center. College President Angel Reyna said they wanted to make a abstraction for students to consciousness safe.
"I felt large due to the fact that it's been a agelong clip coming," said Reyna. "You know, the situation says a lot."
The assemblage won the Lumina contention backmost successful 2022. The million-dollar prize wealth allowed them the backing to renovate their aged room into the caller Multi-Cultural Center and Veterans Center.
"Without the Lumina Million Dollar Challenge funding, we wouldn't person been capable to spend to bash this. So they fast-tracked our work, and present we are today," Reyna said.
He said the Multi Cultural Center volition enactment arsenic a one-stop store for students.
"We wanted to centralize the enactment due to the fact that it's challenging capable for a pupil to travel and get help," helium said.
The Multi Cultural Center volition besides diagnostic further bureau space, caller tables and chairs and backstage bureau abstraction arsenic well. And soon, Reyna said they privation to adhd immoderate idiosyncratic touches.
Lainey Campos is the Veterans Counselor astatine the college.
"The strategy tin beryllium precise complex," said Campos. "So having a abstraction wherever they tin travel successful and get immoderate proposal connected however to maximize those benefits that they've rightly earned, either arsenic a dependent, a subsister of oregon the seasoned themselves is incredibly impacting to their higher acquisition goals, their achievements and their promotion into their aboriginal careers."
The Veteran's Center is geared toward the college's subject students. Campos said it's a spot wherever they tin conscionable and stock their experiences and challenges.
There are presently astir 18 subject students who volition beryllium graduating astatine the extremity of the semester from Madera Community College.
