{"id":11461,"date":"2020-01-16T16:43:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/?p=11461"},"modified":"2020-01-17T14:33:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T22:33:57","slug":"new-staff-and-new-club-at-the-guardian-scholars-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/new-staff-and-new-club-at-the-guardian-scholars-program\/","title":{"rendered":"New Staff and New Club at the Guardian Scholars Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_7901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11445 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_7901.jpg\" alt=\"Guardian Scholars\" width=\"275\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>The Guardian Scholars Program is thrilled to announce\u00a0our newest additions to the program <strong>Jose Milan and Olga Novak<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Jose will be supporting our Guardian Scholars as the new Retention Specialist.\u00a0 Jose is a Skyline College alumni where he earned an Associate\u2019s Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and transferred to San Francisco State University (SFSU). At SFSU, he obtained his Bachelor\u2019s degree in Latinas and Latinos Studies. Jose has experience in case management, education, student services, career services and financial aid. He is passionate about ensuring equity and social justice within the higher education system through student advocacy.\u00a0Jose was formerly part of the Hermanos and Hermanas Learning Community, Puente, TRiO and also a former EOPS recipient. Jose started his journey at Skyline College as a Financial Aid Ambassador and served as a\u00a0Career Resource Aid. He&#8217;s also done case management work with Transitional Ages Foster Youth at Edgewood Center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Olga Novak<\/strong>, will support our program as a Guardian Scholar Student Assistant. She is currently working on finishing her psychology courses. Olga hopes to build more connections within the GSP community.<\/p>\n<p>You can find Jose and Olga in Building 2, third floor, Room 2-321.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly our office is also excited to share that we are currently working with our Guardian Scholars to create \u201d<strong>The Guardian Scholars Club<\/strong>\u201d. The Guardians Scholars club&#8217;s main focus will be to support our scholars by providing peer academic and\/or personal guidance\u00a0to help them thrive at Skyline College and at their communities. The club will create great opportunities for our Guardian Scholars to come together and showcase their leadership skills.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article by Jose Milan, Sharon Quach and Olga Novak | Photo by Heather Rojas-Everett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian Scholars Program is thrilled to announce\u00a0our newest additions to the program Jose Milan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}