Thanks in part to the generosity of Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½\u2019s campus shuttle bus provider, Burnett Honors College students can mentor and prepare for college\u00a0over 10,000\u00a0of at-risk elementary school children every fall for the next five years.<\/p>\n
Veolia Transportation has donated 90 bus trips annually to the service-learning sites visited by Honors students during the fall Honors Symposium. The symposium is a required course that combines lectures and service-learning for Honors students, who visit Orange County public schools and teach five hands-on student success lessons to children in grades one through five.<\/p>\n
The company has also donated 13 bus trips for the “ACE: Achieve a College Education Day” event that takes place annually in the spring. The ACE program brings 500 local fifth-graders to campus, where they become college students for a day. Nearly 180 Burnett Honors College and LEAD Scholars students participate.<\/p>\n
The ACE Day event has been called a game-changer by many. “The ACE program plants the seed. If you set goals and work hard to achieve them, you too can have the opportunity to attend college,” says Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ parent and donor Sandra Jackson, who has supported the program.<\/p>\n
Veolia Transportation\u2019s gift represents a commitment of $306,000 over five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks in part to the generosity of Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½\u2019s campus shuttle bus provider, Burnett Honors College students can mentor and prepare for college\u00a0over 10,000\u00a0of at-risk elementary school children every fall for the next five years. Veolia Transportation has donated 90 bus trips annually to the service-learning sites visited by Honors students during the fall Honors Symposium. The symposium is a required…","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":62924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[650,4235],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-62922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","tag-burnett-honors-college","tag-service-learning"],"yoast_head":"\n