NOCRC Hosts Successful In-Person Partners’ Breakfast
After a three-year hiatus, the Partners’ Breakfast, hosted by North Orange County Regional Consortium for Adult Education, was successfully held in person at the Anaheim Campus on Thursday, February 9, 2023. More than 125 attendees — including partners, potential partners, students, staff, and faculty – enjoyed networking, a hot breakfast, and participating in discussions about …
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Register Now for NOCE’s 2023 Spring Semester Late-Start Classes
January 30, 2023 It’s Not Too Late – Your Class Starts Soon! Students and community members – it’s not too late to get a jump start on your educational goals: enroll in 2023 Spring Semester late-start classes. Some classes begin the week of January 30, 2023, while many others start later in February, March, April, …
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NOCRC Invites Community and Students to Bring Feedback to Annual Partners’ Breakfast Event
January 24, 2023 The North Orange County Regional Consortium (NOCRC) for Adult Education invites all students, community members, partners, faculty, and staff to attend the 2023 NOCRC Partners’ Breakfast on Thursday, February 9, 2023, from 8 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. The first in-person event in three years will be held at the Anaheim Campus, Room …
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NOCRC Finalizes CAEP Three-Year Plan
June 21, 2022 The North Orange County Regional Consortium (NOCRC) for Adult Education recently finalized their three-year plan as mandated through the California Adult Education Program (CAEP). The CAEP three-year planning process was designed to provide adult education consortia members an opportunity to assess the impact and define strategies and activities that will meet educational, …
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A Drive to Do More: NOCE Food Pantries Adapt to Distanced Distribution
December 01, 2020. For the estimated 700,000 California community college students contending with basic needs insecurity, the complications of COVID-19 reach well beyond the classroom. As Californians stockpiled supplies in the early days of the health crisis, the essential operations of food banks and direct human services slowed as volunteers scrambled to balance safety concerns …
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Undocumented Student Action Week Takes Wing in North Orange
December 01, 2020. The monarch butterfly defies the limits of what is possible. The humble insect travels a staggering 3,000 miles across North America as it migrates, its entire journey spanning three or four generations of butterflies. An icon of beauty, strength, and resilience, the monarch has also become an emblem of freedom adopted by …
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New Facilities Expand Opportunities for Adult Learners
December 01, 2020. This month, it is an honor to share some fantastic news from the NOCRC community. Recently, I had the privilege of visiting the North Orange County Regional Occupational Program’s (NOCROP) newly renovated Trident Education Center. It was an excellent opportunity to see our California Adult Education Program (CAEP) funding at work, ensuring …
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Full Circle: Adult Ed Experience Sets New NOCROP Admin’s Path in Motion
October 29, 2020. When it comes to keeping her promise to pay it forward, there’s no holding Dr. Ligia Hallstrom back. Adult education isn’t just a passion for Hallstrom. For the new Administrator of Instructional Programs at North Orange County Regional Occupational Program (NOCROP), who relied on adult education to gain a financial foothold in …
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Education at Work: Project SEARCH Opens Doors to Employment for Adults with Developmental Disabilities
October 29, 2020. Cruz Segoviano played it cool when he found out he had landed a job as an environmental service worker at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange. Inside, though, it was like his soul had been set free. “My inspiration is freedom,” says Segoviano, who started work on September 28 after a yearlong internship …
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Rainbows in the Rain: Reflecting on NOCRC Stories of Triumph and Hope
October 29, 2020. These days, we’ll take silver linings wherever we can find them. As we roll with the pandemic’s punches for the seventh straight month, the NOCRC community is coming together to help students — and each other — weather the storm. Even amid the darkest clouds, we’re finding unexpected rays of resiliency, positivity, …
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Gearing Up for Growth with New Garden Grove Director M’Liss Patterson
September 25, 2020. For M’Liss Patterson, the new Director at Garden Grove Adult Education, the drive to serve came not just from handing adult learners the keys to success, but from giving them the guts to switch gears. It started with a particular student — a single mom who had tried college and various trades, …
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‘Tremendous Courage’: A High School Grad 39 Years in the Making
September 25, 2020. Working since the age of 14 to help support her family, Kimberly “Kim” Jones was seldom a stranger to tough times. But amid lost jobs, missed opportunities, and even a global pandemic, her biggest barrier to success was less than an eighth-of-an-inch thick, a piece of paper. Jones fought her way to …
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