Welcome!
The Puente Program is full for the 2024-2025 Academic Year. Our Puente Program Application will open in February 2025 for the 2025/2026 academic year. Please stay tuned. As a Reminder, to be eligible for the Puente program, students need to be eligible to take English 100 and Counseling 151 in the Fall 2025 semester. If you have taken either of these courses or have a passing AP score in English Language or English Literature please email the Puente counselors to further discuss.
The Puente Program is open to new and continuing students with 54 spots for the academic year on a first come first serve basis. When the program is full, we will notify students that they may join our waitlist.
Questions? Feel free to email a Puente Counselor at PUENTE@fullcoll.edu
The Puente Program
The Puente Program is an academic, counseling and mentoring program that has improved college persistence and success rates for thousands of California’s educationally under-served students. The Puente mission is to increase the number of community college students who:
- Transfer and enroll in four-year colleges and universities
- Earn college degrees
- Return to the community as mentors and leaders
Program Benefits
- Guaranteed English and Counseling courses for one year (Fall & Spring semesters)
- Assistance over Summer with getting started, selecting classes, and registration
- Learning Community that links English & Counseling classes
- Designated Puente Counselor
- Dedicated Puente Center for students to study, print, and relax
- Local college field trips and cultural events
- Annual Northern California College Tour
- Mentoring and networking with community leaders
- Leadership and volunteer experience
- University and college transfer preparation
Program Eligibility
- Complete application during the application filing period, application opens in February for the 2025/2026 cohorts.
- Mandatory attendance to all free Puente events during the academic year
- Must be eligible to take the following courses with Puente:
| FALL 2025 | ENGL 100 College Writing (on campus)
Days & Time TBD |
COUN 151 Career & College Success (on campus)
Days & Time TBD |
| SPRING 2026 | ENGL 103 Critical Reasoning & Writing
Days & Time TBD |
COUN 148 Human Potential
Days & Time TBD |
Puentistas in Action
Revised 10/4/2024 By Lorena Marquez
Contact Information
Email: puente@fullcoll.edu
Counseling Phone: (714) 992.7084
Puente Center (714) 992-7747
Puente Counselors:
Elisa Latourelle &
Lorena Marquez
Puente English Instructors:
Daniel Scarpa &
Michael Mangan
Location
Counseling Center
2000 building, 2nd Floor
Puente Center
1000 Building, Room 122