Puente Mission Statement:

The mission statement of the Puente Project is to increase the number of educationally
underserved students, who enroll in four-year colleges and universities, earn degrees,
and return to the community as leaders and mentors to succeeding.
Vision Statement
In a Stretch Accelerated classroom, students and faculty collaborate as part of a
scholarly community. Faculty teaches from a perspective of social equity to empower
students as human beings with unique experiences, abilities and ideas. STACC
curriculum places writing, thinking, reading, and scholarship at the core content of the
courses, with students working metacognitively in their attempts to develop skills in
the content area, to assess those skills through instructor guidance and self-reflection,
and to transfer those skills to real-world, authentic writing experiences.
The Mission of the STACC Program is to:
Increase access to and success in transfer-level composition courses.
Celebrate the cultures, experiences, and abilities of our students.
Guide students towards authentic and critical 21st century literacy.
Foster students belief in themselves and their abilities to succeed.
Empower students to see themselves as writers, scholars, thinkers, and world
changers.
STACC English 100 Students Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of STACC English 100, students will be able to:
1. Evaluate interdisciplinary discourses, including literary text, representative of
diverse voices and experiences.
2. Compose a variety of text, including academic essays, that demonstrate
analytical thinking for multiple contexts.
3. Integrate research texts from experiential knowledge as well as digital, print,
and multimedia sources.
4. Develop authentic voice, a writers unique wording and stylistic choices, to
communicate clearly and with purpose.
5. Reflect on reading, composing, thinking, and learning processes.