Puente Project Hosts Annual Mentor & Student Dinner
Thirty-two students were matched with mentors at the annual dinner.
On Oct. 1, the Puente Project’s annual Mentor & Student Dinner matched 32 students with thirty-two mentors. Students and their mentors participated in an interactive exercise that asked the questions, “what are common barriers to success”, “Who was your role model and why”, and “if you could be a person from history for a day , who would it be and?”
The Puente Program is an academic preparation program that for more than 25 years has improved the college-going rate of tens of thousands of California’s educationally disadvantaged students. Its mission is to increase the number of community college students who: Enroll in four-year colleges and universities Earn college degrees Return to the community as mentors and leaders of future generations
Students will have their mentors for one year and participate in various activities. Anyone interested in becoming a future mentor, can contact Elías Domínguez, Counseling Faculty, at 14-992-7240 or at EDominguez@fullcoll.edu.
