{"id":7132,"date":"2016-11-18T00:03:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T00:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=7132"},"modified":"2016-11-18T23:29:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T23:29:28","slug":"major-event-sees-major-attendance-and-major-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/major-event-sees-major-attendance-and-major-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Event Sees Major Attendance and Major Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span class=\"contextualextensionhighlight\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/11\/meet-your-major-fair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7134 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/11\/meet-your-major-fair-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"meet your major fair photos\" width=\"401\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/meet-your-major-fair-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/meet-your-major-fair-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/meet-your-major-fair-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/meet-your-major-fair-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/meet-your-major-fair-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/meet-your-major-fair.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a>Skyline College\u2019s Meet Your Major Fair held on Tuesday, November 8 proved to be a day spotlighting academic success and student engagement.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">\u00a0Offered as a campus-wide meeting of programs and academic pathways, this year\u2019s event brought together a large number of students, faculty and staff. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Over 350 attendees learned about our academic offerings as Westmoor High School juniors and seniors joined Skyline College students as participants in an interactive investigation of college majors available to current and prospective learners. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive as students chatted, questioned and clarified their intended majors through face-to-face interactions with professors, and staff members.\u00a0\u00a0Students were \u201cedutained\u201d by a variety of experiences showcasing academic options ranging from massage therapy to rock formations and from study abroad to digital photography or scientific inquiry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">Workshops on financial literacy, career exploration, and CTE pathways were presented to our High School guests and all students were invited to\u00a0capture and share these \u201cmajor\u201d moments through instagram photos, and button making.\u00a0\u00a0Appreciative thanks are in order for all contributing divisions, and volunteers. Special thanks to Jose Milan, Nick Zuniga, Kristen Ersando, Lauren Ford, Andrea Vizenor and team, Shandra Thomas, Alex Kaplan, Daryan Chan, Chad Thompson, Raul Amaya and Skyline\u00a0College Facilities for their rallying and on-the-spot effort. A 1963 vintage ice cream truck added a refreshing ending to the fair for all who redeemed a participant sticker card reminding them that\u00a0<b>\u201cMeeting Your Major can be cool, smooth, and sweet because you\u2019ll know when It\u2019s It.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Article by Lavinia\u00a0<span class=\"highlight\"><span id=\"0.02572296402701557\">Zanassi<\/span><\/span>\u00a0| Photo by Nicholas Zuniga\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skyline College\u2019s Meet Your Major Fair held on Tuesday, November 8 proved to be a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/7132"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}