{"id":10696,"date":"2011-01-06T18:47:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T22:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=10696"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:35:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:35:22","slug":"less-than-privileged-students-shown-college-bound-path-at-fiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2011\/01\/less-than-privileged-students-shown-college-bound-path-at-fiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Less-than-privileged students shown college-bound path at FIU."},"content":{"rendered":"

The sign that welcomed high school seniors as they stepped off the buses set the mood for the morning. It read \u201cWelcome Future Panthers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Letting students know that college absolutely can be in their future was an important message for over 300 high schools seniors who attended the first Florida International University (FIU) \u201cAre You Ready? Summit\u201d in December 2010. Most students at the campus event—from Booker T. Washington Senior, Miami Jackson Senior, Miami Northwestern Senior, North Miami Beach Senior, South Dade Senior and William H. Turner Technical Arts High Schools—would be first generation college students in their families.<\/p>\n

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Students were welcomed as future Panthers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The summit was organized by the Dean\u2019s Alumni Circle<\/a> at FIU\u2019s College of Business Administration. Two organizations, College Summit Florida and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami, sent students to the event.<\/p>\n

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Roary was a popular greeter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The morning started with spirited welcomes from Roary, the FIU mascot, and the Golden Dazzlers dance team. Joyce J. Elam<\/strong>, executive dean of the College of Business Administration, gave motivational words of encouragement to the enthusiastic group of attendees.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext came panel discussions, chaired by alumni, giving students information about college life, the admissions process and financial aid,\u201d said Margaret Brisbane<\/strong> (BBA \u201980), chair of the Alumni Circle Community Service committee.<\/p>\n

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FIU freshmen Carlos Amaya and Gedma Estrada; Yanyn San Luis (BA \u201910), student & alumni relations coordinator, advancement, alumni & corporate relations; and Jeffrey Zelaya, FIU senior<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Alvin Naterpaul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe let the students know the importance of a college education, and how studying should take precedence,\u201d said panelist Alvin Naterpaul<\/strong> (EMBA \u201910). \u201cI told them I came from where they are, and know what it\u2019s like to be a first generation \u2018everything\u2019 in a family.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The high schoolers also took campus tours, enjoyed both breakfast and lunch on campus, and were able to talk to people from the business school and other academic departments at FIU.<\/p>\n

FIU and College Summit plan to work together again. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe event was phenomenal and it represents a reconnection of FIU and College Summit,\u201d Brisbane said. \u201cWe hope to have even more involvement with College Summit in the future, including additional \u2018Are You Ready? Summits.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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More than 300 college hopefuls attended the \u201cAre You Ready? Summit.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

College Summit is a national group nonprofit organization that partners with schools and districts to strengthen a college-going culture and increase college enrollment rates.<\/p>\n

View more photos<\/a> or watch an NBC news report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sign that welcomed high school seniors as they stepped off the buses set the mood for the morning. It read \u201cWelcome Future Panthers.\u201d Letting students know that college absolutely can be in their future was an important message for over 300 high schools seniors who attended the first Florida International University (FIU) \u201cAre You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":10700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50,1405],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23760,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions\/23760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}