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>> Now tonight, stronger
Houston series and whether
you’re a teacher a parent or a
student most would agree that
education is not a one size
fits all some students learn
differently than others others
are trying to balance school
with work and provide for their families tonight, we have a
families tonight, we have a
look at a program that is
tailor-made for those students
it’s happening at Lone Star
college and as our Brandon
Walker reports tonight, this
program.
>> Is proving to be a success.
I can’t lie experience with the
cameras and being Milton Moody
might make movies someday that
is some background music and
then they’re doing some
animated might go into graphic
design might at it he gets to
try his hand at each having
found home amidst the big
lights.
>> Big magic that is production
at Lone Star College’s North
Harris campus is multimedia
studio. I’m happy and I why
Qantas order one do this in the
future like more you know more
advances of course Moody is a
student intern who gets paid to
work on campus productions busy
with the working calendar.
One Lone Star administrators
say has led to a winning plan
so it’s called the mi Casa es
su Casa program home at school
the goal says doctor Laura on
as a Lone Star college North
Harris is vice president of
instruction. Mi Casa es su Casa
began in 2017 its birth, the
conversation of ideas on how to
fix a problem one of the things
that became evident was that
are Hispanic students were
having the success we wanted
them to have docked to honestly
says the college recognized
Hispanic students were doing as
well as white students in core
courses and.
>> That bled over into
graduation rates transfer rates
even getting students from
Community College to a
four-year school so they had to
start a conversation on solving
that problem or problems, the
folks here at Lone Star did so
by lending an ear we know the
majority of our students are
Hispanic the majority of our
students go part-time.
>> They go part time because
most of them also have jobs and
family responsibilities so we
knew all those things but until
I really know you.
>> How can I really support you
on your journey honestly it
just got me out of my bubble
because I’ve always been that
quiet person Daniella Tapia
majors in biomedical science
plans to be a doctor is a
member of student government
and says mi Casa es su Casa
helps to better connect
students from the Hispanic
community to college and keeps them there, I feel like there’s
them there, I feel like there’s
a lot of students like me who
are very. Not scared of the
world, but just need that extra
push to get out there and
that’s what I needed that
individual course success rates
have gone up.
>> The retention rate semester
to semester have gone up
graduation rates have gone up.
>> Everything’s improve by
engaging Hispanic students,
Lone Star North Harris says
data from last fall showed 68%
of students in the program
returned for a second year. The overall school average 50%
The overall school average 50%
and since the program began the
school reports an increase of
nearly 10 percentage points in
the transfer rate of Hispanic
students to a four-year school.
A 2.5 million dollar title 5
education grant is funded the
program, including a center for
academic success and transition
kind of like a career center
with counselors on staff to
help students transfer to a
four-year school and of course
there’s the multimedia studio
giving students a leg up
getting hands on.
>> The faculty here and staff
really do care about their
education one 1 to help them
grow.
>> And that relationship
between faculty and staff I’m
told is key. It’s a key part of
this program and they’re
getting national recognition
for the work that they’re doing
this month given the 2020
example of excellence the award
by excellence in education.
That’s a national organition
that works toward increasing
access to education for the
Latino community. So some big
recognition for this program
here at a Lone Star North