Project Adelante

Project Adelante

This collaboration between Oxnard College and CSU Channel Islands aims to improve the transfer process. This initiative includes a first-year experience program for Oxnard College transfer students with CSU Channel Islands students serving as peer mentors. In addition, a dual enrollment and learning Math/English summer bridge program with local high schools and Oxnard College increase on-line learning/hybrid opportunities.

Alignment to Grad Initiative 2025 Goals

  • Increase the 2-year and 4-year graduation rates for transfer students
  • Eliminate the achievement gap for historically underrepresented and low-income students

Alignment to CSUCI’s Strategic Initiatives

1. Educational Excellence

  • 1.2 Increase opportunities for students to engage with the regional community

  • 1.3 Expand opportunities for students to become catalysts for social progress

  • 1.4. Ensure that all students experience multiple high-impact learning opportunities

  • 1.6 Expand on-campus employment opportunities

2. Student Success

  • 2.1 Increase academic support for students in the first-year

  • 2.12 Seek opportunities for enhanced collaboration with community college partners

Veronica Montoya

Transfer Student Success Activity Director

Tommee McMakin

Adelante Peer Mentor Coordinator

Lucero Segundo

ALAS & Adelante Analyst

Dr. Geoff Buhl

iPATHCross-Institutional Faculty Lead