Ready to Work: News & Views
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Renea BatesRenea Bates is a single mother of a four-year-old son and is in the Ready-to-Work Program at Southeast Community College. She plans to enter the education program and become a special education teacher. She will graduate this fall and transfer to Union College to obtain her Bachelor's degree. She has an overall GPA of 3.6 and is on the Dean's List. She just returned from a trip to Washington D. C. where she made an oral presentation on the Appalachian area and its people. This trip was made in conjunction with her class in Appalachian culture and a grant awarded to Southeast Community College. In the words of her case manager about her presentation "it was awesome". Renea has been asked to assist in an oral history and picture project with the Adult Education Department at Southeast. This project is being made possible with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. She will be making a trip to North Carolina to make preparations for this project.She is a member of the KEA-SP and is eligible to be a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honorary and hopes to be accepted this semester. Her RTW Coordinator says she is an outstanding person and will be successful in whatever she does. She is a great mother to her son and wants him to have a healthy and secure future. Renea says the RTW Program has helped her to be able to accomplish her dream and her goals for the future. "The program has helped me with my confidence and my self-esteem. I now know that I can do or be anything that I want to be. The program along with SECC has made it possible for me to gain an education and to provide for my son. It would have been very difficult to obtain these things and fulfill my dreams on my own." Read other Ready-to-Work Student Stories |