UNIVERSITY CENTER NEWS

 

Much has happened this year in the University Center Program.  Here are a few of the exciting events, awards, and recognition given to our special students:

 

Sonoma State University Students

 

  • Twenty EAHS juniors and seniors have been taking at least four classes at EAHS, with two of them in honors and advanced placement, while they have also been taking one or two college classes at SSU.  Some of the general education SSU courses they have taken so far are anthropology, philosophy, psychology, computer science, art history, cultural geography, and music foundation.  Last semester they averaged a 3.33 GPA at SSU.
  • Students register for their SSU classes on Monday, April 28 for the Fall 2008 semester.

 

Farewell to our Seniors:

 

  • The eleven EAHS seniors started the UC Program as tenth graders and were the first to join the program.  Now that they’re graduating, with only one year at SSU, many have already completed one year of college and will start as sophomores in college.
  • They’ve been accepted into the following universities:  U. C. Berkeley, U. C. Davis, U. C. Santa Barbara; CSU Fullerton, Chico, Sacramento, Northridge, Sonoma, Humboldt, Fresno, and San Jose; Biola University, Dominican College,  Whitman College, Fresno Pacific University, Westmont College, and Harding University.

 

Special Recognition:

 

  • Stephan Boyer (11th):  Stephan has been accepted into the 2008 Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science Program (MITES) at MIT, Massachusetts, for the summer.  He and fifty other students will be taking five freshmen classes for six weeks; 400 students from the entire nation applied.
  • Rick Wilson (10th):  Rick will spend three weeks at Brown University, Rhode Island, learning about Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century.
  • Kamal Kaur (11th): Kamal was featured in the Sonoma County Library Publication as a youth member of the Rohnert Park-Cotati Regional Library Advisory Board.  She had previously volunteered at the library reshelving books.
  • Daphne Chimas (10th):  Because of Daphne’s acceptance into the Summer Search Program, she will be spending three weeks in the Appalachian Mountains, North Carolina.  She will be rock climbing, backpacking, and white-water canoeing.  The Summer Search Program’s goals are to help students gain self-confidence, be challenged physically and mentally, and to become leaders.
  • Ben Nguyen (10th): Since Ben was also accepted into the Summer Search Program, he will be going on a mountain expedition in Oregon where he will be rafting and back packing.  As part of the program, the participants must plan their own summer program.
  • Gricelda Correa-Martinez (11th):  Gricelda will be participating in Girls State this summer representing Elsie Allen H. S.
  • Jesse Nee-Vogelman (11th):  Jesse will be representing our school at Boys State in Sacramento this summer. 
  • Jordan Davidson (11th):  Jordan scored a perfect 800 on the Math SAT.  He will now be competing with other students in the nation for the National Merit Scholarship Award.

 

Field Trips:

 

  • Seniors in the A.P Literature and Composition class went to San Francisco to see Athol Fugard’s play Blood Knot, a play about two brothers, one dark skinned and one light skinned, who live in a one-room shack in South Africa and who experience the injustice represented by apartheid.
  • One of the goals for the University Center is to ensure students are informed about colleges, so they can make wise choices themselves.  Thus, the freshmen, sophomores, and juniors visited University of San Francisco, a private university close to home with only 4,500 students.