{"id":4623,"date":"2021-08-17T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2021-08-25T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T21:39:54","slug":"transitions-program-celebrates-summer-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/news\/transitions-program-celebrates-summer-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitions Program Celebrates Summer Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"open-para\">The summer session concluded with 22 students receiving Certificates of Completion. For many, it was the first step in a new journey.<\/p>\n<p>SAN MARCOS \u2014 The Palomar College \u201cCorrections to College\u201d program, known as Transitions, celebrated 22 formerly incarcerated students who completed the intensive eight-week program to earn Certificates of Completion on Friday, August 13, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The outdoor, morning ceremony at Palomar\u2019s main campus was attended by 100 people in the shade of the Natural Sciences building, where a number of speakers praised the program finishers and encouraged them to continue their education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to encourage you to keep going because, I promise you, your education will guard you against some unnecessary challenges in life,\u201d said Superintendent\/President Dr. Star Rivera-Lacey. \u201cNo one can take your education away from you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Transitions program helps previously incarcerated individuals adjust to a college campus and successfully begin or resume their higher education. The summer session serves as an orientation to the program and includes tutoring, weekly team building activities, guest speakers and various other forms of support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know you just crammed 17 weeks of work into eight weeks?\u201d said Nora Kenney-Whitley, the Transitions coordinator at Palomar. \u201cYou made it\u2014and you\u2019re going to keep making it. We have such diversity in this group, and you\u2019re all teaching each other, sharing your experiences with each other. What an amazing group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kenney-Whitley and several students also paid tribute to Margaret Goleniak, who passed away at the age of 29 just before finishing the Transitions program. Goleniak\u2019s fiance accepted her posthumous Certificate of Completion.<\/p>\n<p>One of the program\u2019s Peer Mentors, Christy Davis, recalled her arrival at Palomar College years ago: \u201cI believed I hated school, but six weeks in, I had a change of heart. Education doesn\u2019t fix everything, but it gives us tools and support to get through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the ceremony, Palomar College Foundation Executive Director Stacy Rungaitis presented a $2,500 grant to long-time Transitions organizer Lawrence Morris, who also shared his story from the podium on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Another veteran of the program, Cal State San Marcos Professor Martin Leyva, said during his address that \u201cthese programs only exist because you all show up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRe-entry is hard,\u201d said Leyva. \u201cWe\u2019re re-entering a society that pushed us away in the beginning, and may not want us. But y\u2019all ain\u2019t got no excuses now. We built a family this summer, and these are lifetime commitments. 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