LBCC Spanish Website

     Students who visit the LBCC website will find something new and interesting at the upper right hand corner of the page. The link labeled "Espanol" will take you to an all new site designed for Spanish speaking families.
     The Spanish page, which was launched in early February, is part of LBCC's efforts to become a college of choice for Latino students. The Spanish pages are designed to help the parents of Spanish speaking students, not to recruit students. The pages that are identified as Latino Focused are going to be around issues of admissions, student life, tutoring services, etc.
     Javier Cervantes, Director of the Department of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, said "I think it's a great effort for us," when asked if he likes the new Spanish website, "there are some hiccups here and there with regards to grammar and what not but those are all things that we're working on."
     The LBCC Spanish Website was created because of a strategic initiative called "College of Choice" which evolves around the evidence that the Latino community is the fastest growing community in the LBCC service district. "We know that there are a lot of families where English is not spoken at home," said Bruce Clemetson, LBCC's VP of Student Affairs. "The research tells us that in the Latino culture family has a lot of influence about where you go to college."