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Dallas
FROM PAGE 1
las County Community Col-
lege District, the paperwork
attendees fill out will allow
them to apply at any Texas
college or university.
She said they are using the
Texas Common Application.
Interested students should
come prepared with an of-
ficial high school or college
transcript, ACT and SAT
scores, class rank, social se-
curity numbers and parents
(if available), a sample essay,
driver's license or matricula
consular, W-2 forms or other
records of income, a complet-
ed 2003 income tax return, a
recent copy of a 2003 bank
statement and permanent res-
ident alien card
According to Canales, sec-
retary for the Dallas County
Community College District,
students do not need to dem-
onstrate financial aid need,
and do not even necessarily
have to be Latino.
"It's open to the whole
community," she said.
Students who are interest-
ed in attending this event can
call the DCCCD at (214) 860-
2432 for more information in
both Spanish and English. The
Dallas Independent School
District can also be contacted
more infomation at (972) 925-
3717.
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FROM PAGE 1
semester.
"Having the Dallas campus plays big
into students needs for higher education,"
said Bea Espinoza, district director of Com-
munity Development at the Dallas County
Community College District (DCCCD). "I
haven't come across anyone who doesn't
believe the school will make it."
Even though the school - now officially
called the NT Dallas Campus - is operat-
ing as a university, it is only considered
a system center under the coordinating
board's Pathway Model. The model was
established so that universities could start
small with some state funding and grow
as demand increased.
Currently, the NT Dallas Campus must
show the demonstrated demand of the
equivalent of 1,000 full-time students in
order to establish the center as an upper-
level general academic university, accord-
ing to Ray Grasshoff, assistant director of
governmental and public relations of the
coordinating board.
"We started out with a 2,500 [full-time
equivalent students] requirement, but in
the last legislative session the threshold
was lowered to 1,000," Price said.
Price went on to say that the achieve-
ment of the 1,000 full-time equivalent
students and the green light to create the
NT Dallas Campus as an upper-level uni-
versity would bring with it an economic
boom to the southern sector.
The school recognizes that students
in the southern sector have miscon-
strued ideas about what a higher edu-
cation requires.
"One of the challenges we face is chang-
ing the current student mentality toward
higher education," said Raul Hinojosa,
recruitment/community and school rela-
tions coordinator at NT Dallas Campus.
"Many students think they can't afford an
education, or they don't want to move."
Although 98.8 percent of the students
in the Dallas Independent School District
graduate from high school to go on to
community college, only 40 percent go on
to complete their degree in four years.
"We are really dealing with an educa-
tional pipeline problem," Price said. "If
students are not planning on getting four-
year degrees, we will never see them."
Price said he understands that NT Dal-
las can't fix the problem because they are at
the wrong end of the educational process.
"We realize the need to connect with
the pre-K through [grade] 12 at the Dallas
ISD, so the students know it's the norm to
continue on to four years of college after
high school," Price said. "If we take the
approach that we have to do this on our
own, we aren't going to be successful."
The need to reach out to the Dallas ISD
and the DCCCD in order to bring in more
students has resulted in the campus ex-
tending its hand not only to other learning
institutions, but to the surrounding com-
munity as well.
"The impact goes way beyond the phys-
ical presence of a university," said Gloria
Bahaman, director of Student Services at
NT Dallas, "It's about development and
change that affects the mind and spirits of
the community. This has become our com-
munity and we will grow with it."
Espinoza said the NT Dallas Campus
displays this attitude within the DCCCD
campuses.
"I see them involved heavily in out-
reach to new students, both in the junior
high, high schools, and the community
colleges," Espinoza said. "Having the
Dallas campus plays big into the students
needs for higher education."
According to Steve Smith, corporate
secretary for the Best Southwest Chamber
of Commerce Partnership, the NT Dallas
Campus offers more than higher education.
"The willingness NT Dallas has shown
to commit for the long-run offers a lot of
hope for the region," Smith said. "Its effect
extends beyond south Dallas and reaches
into Ellis County."
The NT Dallas Campus co-hosted the
Sustainable Community Summit, whose
purpose was to help the southern region
and Ellis county get ideas from other
communities on how to turn the region
around.
"Even though they are educators, they
bring expertise that helps us to be more
than we really are," Smith said. "I can't
imagine what it would be like without
them."
The NT Dallas Campus foresees suc-
cess in the South Dallas region.
"The reason we are not going to fail is be-
cause if s not an option or even a remote pos-
sibility." Price said. "The need is too great."
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