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The 2017 Skyline College Empty Bowl Project once again highlights the capacity of art to inspire a successful community fundraiser! The Skyline College Ceramics Club hosted its 5th Empty Bowls fundraiser on November 15, 2017 at Fireside Dining Hall. Ceramics students from Skyline College and Capuchino High School made 350 unique handmade bowls. Guests chose from ...

On November 28, 2017, representatives from partner organizations serving the local Skyline College community attended a NOVA Job Center open house at SparkPoint. This event both introduced the newly launched NOVA Job Center at Skyline College and familiarized community partners with the rest of the services that SparkPoint offers. The organizations represented included NOVA San Mateo, NOVA Sunnyvale, San Mateo County Human Services Agency, ...

The 2017 Skyline College Empty Bowl Project once again highlights the capacity of art to inspire a successful community fundraiser! The Skyline College Ceramics Club hosted its 5th Empty Bowls fundraiser on November 15, 2017 at Fireside Dining Hall. Ceramics students from Skyline College and Capuchino High School made 350 unique handmade bowls. Guests chose from ...

On October 25, 2017 the Skyline College Health Center team sponsored the semiannual Health Fair in the Dining Hall from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This well attended event featured over 36 different agencies and health advocates. It is a great event to highlight some of the health and wellness related programs offered at Skyline College ...

The English Language Institute hosted its twice-annual ESL Registration Day on October 28, 2017 from 9:00am-3:00pm. We had over 30 new ESL students who attended the event and completed the key steps to enrollment! Many of them are friends and family of current Skyline College students. The new ESL students enjoyed meeting ESOL Counselor Virginia Rosales ...

We are excited to announce that the NOVA Job Center will be launching services on Monday, November 6, 2017 at the SparkPoint and Career Services Center (building 1, floor 2). This new program will be offered as a part of SparkPoint and Career Services, complementing our current service offering by providing additional one-on-one career counseling, ...

SparkPoint and Career Services at Skyline College would like to extend an official campus-wide introduction to a new member of the team, Richard Saroyan. He is excited to join the SparkPoint team and looks forward to making a difference in the lives of those in our community. Saroyan returns to campus after last attending Skyline College ...

  Earlier this year, Skyline College was awarded a grant to replicate the NOVA Job Center model, which has been successfully implemented in Sunnyvale and San Mateo. This new program will be offered as a part of SparkPoint and Career Services, complementing our current service offering by providing additional career counseling, workshops, resume assistance, interview preparation, ...

SparkPoint and Career Services at Skyline College would like to extend an official campus-wide introduction to a new member of the team, Henry Ta. Henry serves as one of our new adjunct NOVA Career Counselors here at Skyline College. Henry recently graduated from San Francisco State University’s Masters of Counseling Program in May 2017. His ...

The Grove Scholarship program awarded 25 new and continuing Career and Technical Education (CTE) scholars for the Fall 2017 semester. Recipients were selected on a competitive basis among approximately 70 applications from diverse academic programs. On October 6, 2017 the selected students met in the Career Services Center to complete the Grove Scholarship orientation. The orientation ...