{"id":11410,"date":"2011-03-21T10:18:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T14:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=11410"},"modified":"2014-11-14T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T20:59:43","slug":"keys-high-school-students-take-stock-of-fiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2011\/03\/keys-high-school-students-take-stock-of-fiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Keys high school students take stock of FIU."},"content":{"rendered":"

Some population figures:<\/p>\n

Key Largo—about 10,000<\/p>\n

Marathon—about 8,000<\/p>\n

Key West—about 25,000<\/p>\n

Modesto A. Maidique Campus of Florida International University (FIU)—about 32,000<\/p>\n

Upon entering Florida\u2019s innovative Take Stock in Children <\/a>program, seventh-graders sign a contract. They commit to getting good grades, maintaining attendance, behaving well in class, staying crime- and drug-free and meeting with a mentor weekly. The payoff for fulfilling the contract: as members of low-income families who might lack the resources to go to college, they earn a scholarship.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>To help them visualize what their life as college students will be like, they visit two Florida campuses in seventh grade and do more intensive tours in high school. For island-based students, FIU is a \u201ccity\u201d with a population larger than the county seat in Key West.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve always taken students to FIU,\u201d said Jim Hall<\/strong> (MS \u201991), program coordinator for Monroe County, and one of two FIU alumni among the five adults accompanying 33 students on the most recent FIU tour. \u201cIt has the quality and credentials, and it\u2019s closer to home, which might ease the transition to college.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Keys, FIU Business and a national presence merge.<\/em><\/p>\n

The group of Keys sophomores and juniors stopped by the College of Business Administration, where Barry Shiflett<\/strong>, director, Career Management Services, and Clifford Perry<\/strong>, associate dean for undergraduate programs and academic affairs, offered advice and encouragement.<\/p>\n

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Barry Shiflett and Clifford Perry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI liked the diversity at FIU and the fact that everyone was different and unique,\u201d said Yanaiz Morales, a Key West sophomore with her eye on a law career, while Thomas Bowersox, a junior from Marathon who plans to major in music, appreciated \u201cthe architecture, the sculpture and the evidence of interesting student activities such as a photo shoot.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the tour, 76 percent of the students expressed absolute certainty that they would attend college.<\/p>\n

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The student group with Take Stock staff members including Jeremy Wilkerson, assistant project coordinator; Jim Hall, program coordinator; and Lois Wolfe Markham (MFA \u201901), grant coordinator<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year, Take Stock-Monroe received a grant in partnership with Broward and Highlands County, awarded through the Investing in Innovation <\/em>Fund (i3), part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were 1,700 applications for innovative programs making a difference in the schools,\u201d Hall said. \u201cForty-nine awards were made nationwide, two in Florida. We are a Florida-only program, but this year, we stepped onto the national stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Some population figures: Key Largo—about 10,000 Marathon—about 8,000 Key West—about 25,000 Modesto A. Maidique Campus of Florida International University (FIU)—about 32,000 Upon entering Florida\u2019s innovative Take Stock in Children program, seventh-graders sign a contract. They commit to getting good grades, maintaining attendance, behaving well in class, staying crime- and drug-free and meeting with a mentor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[313,455,459],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11410"}],"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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23903,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11410\/revisions\/23903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}