Ph.D. student and Greeley native Angela Rockwell discusses the importance of building strong relationships between universities and community colleges.
你和社区大学有什么渊源?
我从一开始就在皇冠app官方版下载. 我在这里念的本科. 我开始 my masters here, and after I finished my masters I was floating off in space. So, I found a job, you know, paying the bills, all that fun stuff and I quickly found 我需要提高我的数据库技能. 有人向我推荐过很多次， before I actually did it, that I take some classes at Aims Community College in Greeley. So that kind of led from one class to another class, to another class. 沿着 way, I kind of accumulated enough credits to where all I needed was a history class 然后我就有了助理律师的职位. 所以，我的学术道路，而不是传统的 associate's to bachelor's to master's was bachelor's to master's back to associates. And while I was there, it was so much fun, I got another associate’s. 这就是 definitely a solid experience for me that, oddly enough, helped develop me into the Ph.D. 皇冠app官方版下载的项目. 不是线性轨迹，但它让我到达了现在的位置.
What was eye opening about going from a bachelors to a masters? 回... 我不应该 甚至对它说，但对一个助理，然后是一个博士.D.
的 eye-opening part was the, the difference of flavor I guess at a community college. I had taken some classes at Aims along the way, mostly like a Tai Chi, photography, 没有真正专注于学术或职业的东西. 所以当我在那里的时候 nitty-gritty, not just for the fun stuff, it was a different exposure for me. 的 学生是一个不同的混合体. 他们大多是非传统学生. 之一 我的同学，我非常嫉妒，16岁! 我就想，哇，我肯定会喜欢的 to have been that focused on my 职业生涯 and know what I wanted to do when I grew up, 那时我16岁，那完全不是我. 但是，他有一个计划，他正在做. 他在为自己努力.
And then a lot of my classmates also were returning students where they were changing 职业生涯. 的re was a program around that time where people who had been laid off from work were receiving some additional financial aid to retrain into a more employable 职业生涯. So, I had some classmates who are in that, that group as well so that was 年龄谱的另一端. 但是在皇冠app官方版下载，我的同学们更关注社区 一直和现在的我在年龄上很相似吗. 尽管我有点 比我的一些博士同事年长一点.D. 同学们，我还没老到引人注目的地步. It's really more of a, like a little bit of a jet lag here and there, whereas the community college, it was very obvious and the different interests that come with 不同的年龄.
我认为主题是社区. 你看到了什么样的社区或文化 皇冠app官方版下载和Aims或者我应该说是整个格里利大学?
Definitely at UNC the community that I've experienced just from my masters to the doctorate and how I've kind of changed professionally and as a person, I'm more aware 这里的多样性. 这让我挺开心的. 格里利仍然非常格里利， but UNC is kind of bucking that mold a little bit where we're attracting students from different ethnic and gender identity backgrounds from different communities, even within Colorado, that have different cultures, which is exciting and just the 我在交流和分享中看到的成长. 可能在哪里 other people in my immediate environment before, but I wasn't as aware of it, and 现在它真的很闪亮了. 格里利也在迎头赶上. A little bit slower because they're bigger entity — it takes them longer to make these 变化. But, it's exciting — it's kind of, I think definitely heading in the right 方向. 没有我想的那么快，但我们在轨道上了.
社区大学有学术轨道，所以A.A.他是艺术助理 或者是A.A.S., associates of applied science that are really designed for students 上大学，完成四年的学位. 但他们也有事业 技术项目. 一般来说，A.A.S.，应用科学的助理，以及那些 从两年制的焊接学位到L.P.N.，所以为期两年的护理 学位. 的re are a few others that are trade focused, HVAC, plumbing, carpentry... So they have more of an immediate reward and it's really good for nontraditional students who had outside commitments, taking care of families, young children, older parents or who have work schedules that keep them from attending the usual 8:00 AM to maybe 下午1点的课程安排是大学真正推行的. 所以，它解决了 rest of the community that a large institution like UNC really doesn't have the mobility 为了解决.
What sort of bridges have you seen between say a community college and a college or 大学?
A lot of the bridges that I've seen are more of the networking kind of advising within 两年. 当然少不了一些市场营销. 如果一个学生想上大学 but doesn't necessarily feel academically prepared to start off at UNC right after 高中，两年是一个很好的选择. 它的价格更低一些 班级规模也要小一些. 因此，他们获得了信心，并得到了发展 the academic skills that they need to really succeed at a four-year institution. So that way they're not coming to a 大学, trying it, not succeeding as much as they'd like, and then completely getting burnt out on it at the beginning.
One thing that really has me excited is the strengthening connection between UNC and Aims to help the students who complete at the Greeley campus of Aims, and the other 而不是格里利... 让他们保持这种势头，让他们去UNC 在这里完成它们. 我有点自私. 我想如果他们在格里利上学，他们 应该在格里利完成吗. 其他机构就是其他机构. 他们可以得到 他们在其他地方的学生. 但我真的认为从格里利或格里利开始 community cause it’s Weld county really keeping us together as a, as a unit, I think 还不错.
My name is Angela Rockwell and I am a graduate student, a Ph.D. 在ASRM项目中.
As part of the ASRM program, I'm learning more about institutional assessment and 程序有效性. 我真希望能看到幕后的事 bit more when I was at Aims so that I could see how that magic is happening — how 这些学生正在被推向完成. 然后在皇冠app官方版下载这里，差不多就是这样 they're being motivated along to complete their bachelor's 学位s. 比如怎么做，怎么做， what systems are in place, how are we assessing their effectiveness to really make sure that the students really achieved the success that they want. 还有，还有，还有 coursework in the research methods side of ASRM is definitely giving me a very long 我想知道的事情的愿望清单. 但我可能永远都不会认识他们. It's, it's going to be a little hard to really decide when it comes time to pick my 主题.
他们只会让你问更多的问题.
是的,是的. I want to know, I want everything to work perfectly and I want students to succeed and I want everything to just magically happen, but that's not the way 它的工作原理.
Read more about UNC and Aims Community College from the Greeley Tribune
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