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Speaking Spanish Across Campus
The Spanish Speaking Program continues to Help Foreign Students
By Octavia Knight
Issue date: 10/1/07 Section: Campus News
There are many things you have to be concerned about when transferring to a new college. Making sure your credits are correctly reassigned to your university, adapting to a new home, different classes, and various teachers, and working to make new friends are only a few of the worries you can experience. However, when the new university you're attending is located in a different country, your concerns can be doubled and stress can build, especially if you only have knowledge of a foreign language in a dominantly English-speaking country. But with help from members of Kean University's faculty and students, the adjustment runs much more smoothly.
The Spanish Speaking Program (SSP) is an organization devoted to providing better opportunities for a higher education to Hispanic Limited English Proficient students (LEP), who are held back in their classes because of their weakness in understanding and speaking English. Through this program, the students are offered college courses in Spanish during the first two years of their college education, and throughout each semester the program offers subjects equal to General Education courses. These classes let the students advance more progressively while they gain knowledge of the English language by taking the English as a Second Language courses (ESL). By their Junior and Senior years, these students are able to continue their chosen academic major in English-spoken classes, joining the mainstream of students.
Presently directed by Dr. Angela E. Lopez, the SSP was founded in 1972 and offered to students who dominantly speak the Spanish language during the first two years of their curriculum. They have successfully graduated a large number of students since its inception, who are today successful professionals working as productive members of society in the United States and other countries.
But before you can apply to Kean University through the Spanish Speaking Program there are certain requirements that must be followed. You first must be Hispanic Limited English Proficient - students defined as those with a limited knowledge of the English language and are provided with English as a Second Language classes that emphasize English language learning, and long and short-term bilingual programs - be designated with the "SSP" code to enter as Special Admissions Program, pay the application fee, and submit the completed application to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. An official secondary school transcript or GED must be available, and all foreign documents must be translated and notarized.
The Spanish Speaking Program (SSP) is an organization devoted to providing better opportunities for a higher education to Hispanic Limited English Proficient students (LEP), who are held back in their classes because of their weakness in understanding and speaking English. Through this program, the students are offered college courses in Spanish during the first two years of their college education, and throughout each semester the program offers subjects equal to General Education courses. These classes let the students advance more progressively while they gain knowledge of the English language by taking the English as a Second Language courses (ESL). By their Junior and Senior years, these students are able to continue their chosen academic major in English-spoken classes, joining the mainstream of students.
Presently directed by Dr. Angela E. Lopez, the SSP was founded in 1972 and offered to students who dominantly speak the Spanish language during the first two years of their curriculum. They have successfully graduated a large number of students since its inception, who are today successful professionals working as productive members of society in the United States and other countries.
But before you can apply to Kean University through the Spanish Speaking Program there are certain requirements that must be followed. You first must be Hispanic Limited English Proficient - students defined as those with a limited knowledge of the English language and are provided with English as a Second Language classes that emphasize English language learning, and long and short-term bilingual programs - be designated with the "SSP" code to enter as Special Admissions Program, pay the application fee, and submit the completed application to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. An official secondary school transcript or GED must be available, and all foreign documents must be translated and notarized.