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UCSB Student-Athlete Academic Support Center Named in Honor of Jim and Cheryl Barber April 28, 2013- Santa Barbara Through a generous anonymous gift to the athletics program, The University of California Santa Barbara held a special ceremony for the renaming of the academics and student-athlete support wing of the Intercollegiate Athletics Building. The Jim and Cheryl Barber Academic & Student Success Center. This critically-needed student resource center currently serves 500 student-athletes and 20 programs daily, supporting the "Gaucho" athletes who currently hold the second highest NCAA graduation rate in the U.C. system. Barber, who graduated from UCSB in 1967, was a football letter winner, a former member of the Board of Directors of the UCSB Alumni Association, and a founding member of the athletics alumni letter winners’ board (now called The Gaucho Order). He has been living with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) since 2006. His wife Cheryl graduated in 1966. Prior to Jim's ALS diagnosis, Cheryl was Director of the Active Reading Clinic in Walnut Creek. She was also a teacher and teacher trainer of the Reading Revolution method, a multi-sensory, multi-intelligence approach to reading. You can read the full UCSB article here and view the highlights of the presentation ceremony below, courtesy of UCSB Gauchos Athletics. |
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UCSB Student-Athlete Academic Support Center Named in Honor of Jim and Cheryl Barber April 28, 2013- Santa Barbara Through a generous anonymous gift to the athletics program, The University of California Santa Barbara held a special ceremony for the renaming of the academics and student-athlete support wing of the Intercollegiate Athletics Building. The Jim and Cheryl Barber Academic & Student Success Center. This critically-needed student resource center currently serves 500 student-athletes and 20 programs daily, supporting the "Gaucho" athletes who currently hold the second highest NCAA graduation rate in the U.C. system. Barber, who graduated from UCSB in 1967, was a football letter winner, a former member of the Board of Directors of the UCSB Alumni Association, and a founding member of the athletics alumni letter winners’ board (now called The Gaucho Order). He has been living with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) since 2006. His wife Cheryl graduated in 1966. Prior to Jim's ALS diagnosis, Cheryl was Director of the Active Reading Clinic in Walnut Creek. She was also a teacher and teacher trainer of the Reading Revolution method, a multi-sensory, multi-intelligence approach to reading. You can read the full UCSB article here and view the highlights of the presentation ceremony below, courtesy of UCSB Gauchos Athletics. |
