Stockdale Students Tour Taft Campus
Stockdale High students tour TC campus.
By Hector Gutierrez
Students from Stockdale High School arrived early Oct. 23 and met with Shery Black, outreach coordinator, to view the Taft College campus.
A total of 18 students were accompanied by two of their counselors from SHS: Lisa Hance and Kristen Lackey. This is the third time Lackey has visited the school on an annual basis. The students were not recruited, but in fact they volunteered themselves to tour the school to see if it was right for them.
This doesn’t come as a surprise to the counselors because Stockdale High is one of the top five high schools that Taft College draws from. It is one of the closest high schools from Bakersfield making Taft a good fit for its graduates.
The students began their tour in the administration building where they received catalogs and handbooks with greater details of the school and community. They continued past the county library and into the Student Union G-11 module where they met with Shoshanna Kukuliev, a Taft College student trustee and senator on a state level.
She discussed with the students the importance of time management; having to work three jobs while attending school, the former ASB president understands the value of managing your time wisely.
Black concluded the tour in the library where the students were amazed at the cleanliness and architecture of the building.
Shery Black (center) talks to Stockdale High School students.
Nolan Cooper, a senior at Stockdale, is interested in journalism and has his eyes on Taft College to pursue that career.
“I did not know what to expect before coming here because I have not heard much about Taft and haven’t been here myself,” Cooper said. “I am surprised at how nice it looks and how small the class sizes are, but I was overwhelmed by the drive which can make or break my decision.”
The drive is a common dilemma for high school graduates that reside outside of Taft.
In the end the students left with better insight of Taft College and can now make a well-informed decision for their future.
Black is expecting Vista West and Nueva High schools to visit Taft later in the semester.