SparkPoint Articles

  • Immigration Legal Clinic Re-opens for Fall 2019!
    The Skyline College Legal Clinic, located in the SparkPoint Center, aspires to meet the unmet needs for access to legal information by our community. Since 2014, under the direction of supervising attorney Maria Segarra, the Clinic has served Skyline College students, faculty, and staff, as well as other members of our community. As envisioned, the clinic will ...
  • SparkPoint Spotlight Award Recipient: Eric Torres
    SparkPoint at Skyline College would like to recognize our second annual SparkPoint Spotlight Award Recipient. Each year SparkPoint recognizes one student that has demonstrated their commitment and dedication to their financial goals and involvement with SparkPoint services. As a full-time student and single parent, Eric Torres qualified for the CalWorks program on campus which connected him ...
  • SparkPoint Accepting Applications for Fall 2019 Grove Scholarships
    SparkPoint at Skyline College is currently accepting scholarship applications for 25 Career and Technical Education (CTE) students for the Fall 2019 cohort. Grove Scholarship applications are available online at skylinecollege.edu/sparkpoint and are due by 3:00 p.m. on September 12th. Eligible students will be selected for the program based on three short personal statements that describe who ...
  • Grab & Go: Affordable Student Meals
    Skyline College has created a Grab & Go meal program offering low-cost nutritious meal options for lunch and dinner available to all students with a Student ID at a cost of just $3.00 for each meal. This extremely low-cost meal plan is made possible thanks to the leadership of the Associated Students of Skyline College, ...
  • Students Shine In the Internship Job Shadow Program
    This spring, the Internship Job Shadow Program, hosted five student interns across various campus programs, including the off-site Bay Area Entrepreneur Center office. In addition to earning one unit of Cooperative Ed credit, funded by the IJSP, the student interns participated in events, on and off-campus and in various activities where they learned industry-related skills, ...
  • Spring 2019 International Student Spotlight: Terry Asiedu
    Terry Asiedu is an international student from Accra, Ghana who will graduate from Skyline College with a degree in Allied Health this Spring. He has been admitted to several universities including Arizona State University, Oral Roberts University and University of Daytona. He has also been a recipient of the Global Beca Scholarship for all four ...
  • ESL Connect Open House
    On March 25. 2019, the English Language Institute will be renamed ESL Connect to effectively illustrate the community and support the program provides for ESOL students. The ESL Connect team consists of the Program Services Coordinator Mylene Foo, ESOL Counselors Kenny Gonzalez and Virginia Rosales, international student counselors, ESOL faculty and multi-lingual student assistants. ESL Connect ...
  • Students Connect with Student Services at EOPS Spring Mixer
    On Tuesday, February 19, 2019, the EOPS, EOPS/CARE, CalWORKs, and Guardian Scholars Programs held their annual Spring Mixer. The Spring Mixer was an opportunity for newly admitted program students to meet EOPS staff, faculty and student ambassadors and to connect with other students. It also served as a resource fair for attendees to gain information ...
  • The English Language Institute (ELI) Will Become ESL Connect on March 25
    To better reflect how we support our students, we are excited to announce that we are changing our name to ESL Connect! At the heart of ESL Connect’s service is to link both new and current ESL students to a community of support at Skyline College and beyond. The English Language Institute was founded in Fall 2009 as a ...
  • SparkPoint and Skyline College Highlighted in National Student Food Insecurity Report
    In 2017, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) started their work on a national report covering student food insecurity and the promising programs currently being offered to address this issue at the college level. The research team contacted SparkPoint at Skyline College and requested a full day of interviews with staff, faculty and administrators from across ...