Category: #CYProud

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Tiana – Ask anyone on campus and they’ll agree – they’ve never seen a student like Tiana Buttice. In her five years at Cypress, Tiana has blossomed from a markedly reserved individual into an extraordinary student leader, both on campus and off. She currently represents the"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Eleese – Eleese Williams’ essence is resilience. She’s smart, beautiful and extraordinarily positive – a striking combination in and of itself, but all the more so in her case. From birth, she’s struggled with a potentially life threatening condition – sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell disease"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Jonathan – Jonathan Le carries himself with an air of elegance and professionalism fitting of a future physician. A Biochemistry major, Jonathan is an Anaheim native and graduate of Savannah High. Before enrolling at Cypress College, he did a Vocational Nursing Program through the North Orange"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Alexandra – Alexandra has a dream story. She’s an extremely bright D.R.E.A.M student bound for UC Berkeley. The California Dream Act (an acronym for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) has opened higher education opportunities to those like Alexandra who came here as children, are"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Stephanie – Stephanie Garcia is conflicted in the very best of ways – she got into all her transfer universities of choice but can’t decide which to attend. The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) has long been her dream school, but Cal State Long Beach"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Valeria – Valeria Gonzalez is wise beyond her years. She knows what she likes, what she wants, where she’s headed and how to have fun in the day-to-day. Now that’s unique. An Electrical Engineering major from Paramount, California, Valeria will be the first in her family"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Jason – Jason was on his way to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) his senior year at Western High until… well, he wasn’t. He learned the hard way that universities do actually account for your last semester of high school grades. If you don’t"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Brad – Getting a degree matters, but getting the right degree matters more. Find your true interests and pursue them – academic success and personal happiness will follow. That was Brad’s realization after an initial rough, directionless start to college. With the guidance of several Cypress"

"See Why We’re Proud….   Meet Stacy – If you dream of it, go for it. Graduate of the Year candidate, Stacy Aspaturian, returned to Cypress College in 2011 (she was a student here in the late ’90s) after a 20-year career in international shipping. This time around, she enrolled with"

"See Why We’re Proud…. Meet Bill – William “Bill” Ashley is of sturdy character. Born in Charleston, West Virginia, Bill made his way to Southern California via train when he was just three years old… all by his lonesome. His sister placed him on a Chief locomotive in 1954 to make"