WHAT:
A signing ceremony to recognize the transfer agreement between San Antonio College (SAC) and the prestigious Kettering University
 
SAC Engineering students who participate in the program will be able to transfer into the country’s most advanced professional co-operative education program at Kettering’s Flint, Michigan, campus.  The program will also include “cooperative” work-study paid employment in South Texas.  

WHO:
Stanley R. Liberty, President of Kettering University, Flint Michigan
Robert E. Zeigler, President of San Antonio College
Bruce H. Leslie, Chancellor of the Alamo Community Colleges
Michael Harris, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Kettering University
Federico Zaragoza, Vice Chancellor for Economic & Workforce Development, ACCD
SAC students, faculty and staff
Invited guests

WHEN:
Monday, March 16, 2009
12 – 12:30 p.m.

WHERE:
San Antonio College
1300 San Pedro Ave., 78212
Chance Academic Center, top floor atrium
 
The CAC building is located adjacent to SAC’s new Parking Garage.  
Parking in Lot 17; enter from N. Main at W. Myrtle.

BACKGROUND:

By participating in this one-of-a-kind, hands-on, industry-based engineering education program, ranked among the best in the nation, qualified SAC students will be on track to graduate with several semesters of real-world engineering experience and, in most cases, will be hired into engineering jobs here in South Texas before they graduate.

This partnership agreement is a result of the success of SAC’s Engineering Summer Bridge EDGE program for high school students, which has attracted many low-income minority students into the engineering field here in San Antonio.
 
The 2005 book “Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers” from the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council considers San Antonio College an exemplary institution and recognizes the college’s engineering program.  

Kettering University has ranked in the Top Five nationally for almost a decade for Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) and continues to be ranked in the national Top Twenty in the 2009 edition of “America's Best Colleges Guide” published by U.S. News & World Report.