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  Tony Jackson Ph.D., ASTEP Coordinator
 

  Skyline Office: Building 2, Room 102
  Office Hours: By Arrangement
 

  Skyline College
  3300 College Drive
  San Bruno CA 94066
 

  Phone: 650.738.4156
 

  E-mail: Dr. Tony Jackson
 

 
     
 

Welcome to ASTEP!

Welcome to Skyline College and the ASTEP Program! The African-American Success Through Excellence and Persistence Program is pleased at your decision to advance your life by attending college. You are going places and the ASTEP program can help you get there!!! Connected to the program is a, first of its kind, learning community called the African-American Experience Learning Community. Students in this learning community learn about African-American culture, tradition, identity, history, psychology and contemporary life through lectures, discussions, film, guest speakers and presentations. Each course prepares you to take that very important step towards transferring to a four-year college or university.

How can you participate in the "African-American Experience" Learning Community? 

  • Register as a Skyline College student

  • Be willing to meet with the ASTEP counselor

E-mail: Rev. Tim Dupre,  ASTEP Counselor

 


The African-American Success Through Excellence and Persistence (ASTEP) Program at Skyline College is designed to attract African-American and other students and increase their chances for student success on the road to completing a college degree. This program offers students an exciting and unique opportunity to select courses from an Africentric curriculum. The ASTEP components include core courses in English, math, career and life planning, African-American History and Black Psychology. Tutorial Assistance, as well as mentoring, counseling and other support services.
 

     
 

 

What is ASTEP?

African-American Success Through Excellence and Persistence (ASTEP) program offers a strengths-based, talent-development approach which encourages and supports students in their goal of transferring to a California State University, University of California, or other 4 year college or University system to earn a Bachelor's Degree.

ASTEP includes the following:

  • Comprehensive Academic Program for Transfer  Bound Students

  • Guaranteed Courses

  • Support Resources

  • Intensive Student Monitoring

  • Supplemental Instruction

  • 4 Year College and University tours in the near future.

     
 
                 

Programs

Comprehensive Academic Progrm for Transfer Bound Students (What to Do!)

  • ASTEP 1  Student declares goal to transfer to a four-year college or university

  • ASTEP 2  Student and ASTEP Counselor develop an individual Student Educational Plan (SEP) established on a strengths-based, talent-development approach which identifies what general education requirement courses the student needs to take each semester.

  • ASTEP 3  Student and ASTEP Counselor identity a specific major and the prerequisite courses necessary for that major

  • ASTEP 4  Student and ASTEP Counselor identify the college or university campus that fulfills the student's needs.

Course Options
First semester students are clustered and enrolled in two or three courses that have a common theme:

  • Pre-collegiate English
  • Pre-collegiate Mathematics
  • Transfer Level English
  • Transfer Level Mathematics

General Education Core Requirements: Cross-Cultural Communication, African-American History 

  • Career Development
  • Computer/Learning Skills
  • Library and Information Resource Skills
  • Black Psychology

*Program Requirements to initially participate a student must be: registered as a part-time or full-time Skyline student willing to meet with the ASTEP counselor.

       
 
 

Services

Intensive Student Monitoring

  • Student Orientation

  • Regular meetings with ASTEP Counselor

  • Individual meetings with Faculty and Facilitators

  • Twice a month Faculty/Student meetings to monitor student's progress

Supplemental Instruction

  • Academic Learning forums

  • Supplemental instruction provided in Math & English

    • small class size

    • graduate tutors

  • Transfer resources to Historical Black Colleges and Universities

  • Computer skills development

  • Student leadership training

 

 

     
   
       
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