St. Philip’s College Expanding English as a Second Language program
Expanding the English as a Second Language program has become easier for St. Philip’s College.
The continuing education department decided to lower the original price of $205 to $75 per course for incoming prospective students, to help local workers gain proficiency in the English language.
Education skills specialist Gabriela Pérez said an overwhelming interest in the course pre-empted the decision. In a press release from St. Philip’s College, Pérez said after the department’s announcement “we received more than 600 calls, and that’s a huge deal for us. For a couple of weeks, we were on the phone with prospective students all day.”
The attraction to the program resulted from advertising in local publications like La Prensa, a bilingual newspaper, and Conexión, a weekly published by the San Antonio Express-News.
