AIM to Dream Center
The goal of the Advance, Innovate, and Maintain (AIM) to Dream Center is to help students overcome the unique challenges that get in the way of achieving academic, personal, and professional excellence. The center is committed in advocating for undocumented students that pursue the dream of higher education. This is done building rapport and collaborating with different academic and student services departments in order to provide the best services for students.
The AIM to Dream Center was established to assist disadvantaged students at Allan Hancock College to feel connected, directed, nurtured, focused, valued, and engaged. The overarching theme includes advancement, both in terms of student progress and success and in resource development to support them; innovation, in pedagogy and technology; and maintaining successful strategies in approaches to student persistence and success. The center conducts academic, AB540, California DREAM Act, scholarship, DACA and personal statement workshops, presentations and more.
In addition, the center provides online resources 24/7 free to students. The center has a computer and hot spot lending program. Academic and personal development student field trips are organized, and every year the AIM scholarship is awarded to students not eligible for state or federal funds to help pay their tuition. To apply to the AIM scholarship, learn about free legal immigration service, utilize drop-in tutoring, study spaces, and other learning resources, visit the AIM to Dream Center located in bldg. K, Room 11C on the Santa Maria campus, and in bldg. 2, Room 111 at the Lompoc Valley Center, or visit us in the virtual AIM to Dream Center at www.hancockcollege.edu/aimtodream.
For more information, call the AIM to Dream Center at 805-922-6966 ext. 3177.