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ate a library commi-ttee. The current li-brary is housed in a small room, but there are plans to build a large library in the near future.
The new library will be a large, beautiful building fea-turing a panoramic
ocean view. Since the institution is al-ready committed to providing English lan-guage education
to students, they are interested in creating an English book co-llection.
Educational books are the highest priority, but CETYS is also interested
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obtaining novels and entertainment books, to stimulate the love of reading among students. Since the library is open to the public, this repre-sents
an opportunity for Americans to create an English language public libra-ry in Baja. CETYS would provide the facility,
all that is needed is a “Friends of the Library” orga-nization to obtain the book donations.
Ad-ditionally, the Univer-sity is hoping that community
groups will conduct fund rai-sers to provide scho-larships to students. Any high school student in the area that has high enough grades and test sco-res is automatically eligible for a 50% scholarship. 78%
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of the students are from middle to lower income families.
Donations to the uni-versity
may be in the form of funds, servi-ces, equipment,
or materials. Engineer-ing,
graphic design international trade, and hard sciences are just a few of the many areas
where equipment and mate-rial is needed. Sem-pra,
a major donor, has funded a class-room that boasts $100,000 worth of computer programs and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of precision en-gineering equipment.
CETYS, which stands for Technical and Su-perior
Learning Cen-ter, was founded in 1961 by a group of Ensenada business-men
who were con-cerned
about a “brain |
drain" in their city. The very top students in Baja, those who qualify for admission
to elite universities,
were leaving to study in Monterrey, Guada-lajara or Mexico City. Usually, these stu-dents never came back. The school's vision is to provide a top quality learning center to keep the elite in Baja. There are also larger, more established
campu-ses in Tijuana and Mexicali, the Ensena-da branch is the smallest of the three.
Presently, the univer-sity is attempting to obtain US accredita-tion through the Wes-tern Accreditors of Schools and Colle-ges (WASC). Accre-ditation is a complex, expensive process that takes seven years. The school is |
already
half way through the process, but many obstacles remain. If CETYS
re-ceives the WASC accreditation, it will become
the first school in Latin Ame-rica to obtain this endorsement. 
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