TMC mentors, interns and tutors volunteer at the Gompers Preparatory Academy, which is featured in the San Diego Reader's December 2009 Cover Story, Gompers Takes a Bow.
Test scores are up. Violence is down. Teachers are being retained. Inner-city students are taking college preparatory courses.
"One of the biggest factors in changing the culture of the school has been having adults on hand and around the kids at all times," says Gompers’ teacher and director of development Kathryn Strom. More...
Principal Scott Barton, Superintendent O’Connell, Kelly Kovacic, Peter and Peggy Preuss
Kelly Kovacic, TMC alum and Social Studies teacher at The Preuss School UCSD, an intensive college preparatory charter school for low-income students, has been named one of five California Teachers of the Year for 2010. Kovacic has also been selected as California’s nominee for the prestigious National Teacher of the Year competition and will soon be traveling to Washington, D.C., to meet President Obama. " All of my students will be the first generation of their families to graduate from college," states Kovacic. "I treat my students as future leaders, because they are." More ...
Kovacic is also one of five San Diego County "Teachers of the Year." More...
Transforming Women from Victims to Engaged Participants Key to Abating Global Poverty
Calling gender inequity the “central moral challenge” of this day, comparable with totalitarianism in the twentieth century and slavery in the nineteenth, Nicholas Kristof, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for The New York Times, painted a picture of ferocious persecution and fantastic promise for the world’s more than 3 billion women. Kristoff spoke to an audience of about 800 people in a packed Price Center ballroom Wednesday, October 28th as part of the Helen Edison Lecture Series, co-sponsored by Thurgood Marshal College. More ...
SVO President Justice Castaneda (left) stands with Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Penny Rue, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Admissions Mae Brown, and Associate Director of Financial Aid Vonda Garcia.
Thurgood Marshall College senior, Justice Castaneda serves as the president of the university’s Student Veteran Organization (SVO), where he’s collaborated with staff on creating events and developing initiatives that help support the campus’ 200 undergraduate students who have served in the military. The honor student also volunteers as a tutor and mentor to underprivileged youths at a local high school. More ...
Please know that the most effective prevention practice to avoid getting the flu requires cough and hand hygiene: covering your mouth when you cough or sneeze, frequent hand washing, and use of hand sanitizers. To learn more about the University’s flu prevention efforts and to monitor our planning and procedures, visit http://www.ucsd.edu/flu/.
Professor Daniel Widener from the Dept. of History has been appointed as the Director of African American Studies Program (AASM) for a three-year term until June 30, 2012. Dr. Widener teaches African American history, cultural studies, and twentieth-century political radicalism.
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