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Going miles for students!
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Charlene C. Brown-McKenzie |
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This past August Student Affairs
faculty and staff chaperoned a group of thirty, 11th
grade high school students on a 35 mile bike ride along the historic
C & O Canal to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Jeanne Lord, Interim
Associate VP of Student Affairs, Dr. Jane Holahan, Associate Director
of Learning and Disability Support Services, Dennis Williams,
Interim Associate Dean of Student Affairs, joined Thomas Bullock, Director of
Educational Community Involvement Program and Charlene
Brown-McKenzie, Assistant Director for Educational Community
Involvement Program, and High School College Internship Program, in
leading the bike ride. The students are part of the Georgetown
University Institute of College Preparation (GUICP), a
pre-college academic enrichment program. The program’s goal is to
promote student interest and motivation toward the pursuit of a
college education. |
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A group of thirty high
school students from the Georgetown University Institute of College
Preparation took on a 35 mile long bike ride to the historic
Harper’s Ferry. |
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GUICP is one of many
programs are offered
through the Educational Community Involvement Program office to
enhance academic opportunities for middle and high schoolers in the
District of Columbia. The Educational Community Involvement
Program (ECIP) is the outreach office of the Center for Minority
Educational Affairs of Georgetown University. The sincere
endeavor of this office has always been to inspire hope, confidence,
and a heightened interest in the values and benefits of post
secondary educational opportunities for students of the District of
Columbia. With the Community Involvement and Resource
Center, ECIP provides a number of outreach activities to support
various programs and services in schools and in the community.
This program has been in operation under the direction of Thomas
Bullock since 1989. The program graduates students from high school
and college at a rate that is twice that of the DC Public School
system. Former pre-college scholars, such as, DeAngelo Rorie COL’01
and four current undergraduates, Latonya Bell, Jessica Rucker and
Tiffany White, all COL’05, and Devita Lanham, COL’07 now attend
Georgetown University. |
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Other pre-college scholars attend a variety of colleges with diverse
career interests in mind. The current cohort have wonderful examples
to follow and have made the commitment to post secondary education
through their involvement in the Georgetown University Institute of
College Preparation. Throughout their six-year participation,
students come to Georgetown on Saturdays in the academic year and
each weekday during the summers. Some of the opportunities that are
offered include math, science, and English classes, career guidance,
recreational activities, mentor and peer counseling, career
internships, college level instruction, community service projects,
workshops on financial aid and college planning, summer college
residential experience, college tours, and many other varied
experiences that have helped formulate their college and career
plans.
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From left to right:
Dennis Williams, Jeanne Lord, Jane Holahan, Charlene
Brown-McKenzie, and Thomas Bullock |
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This program is ideally housed in
Student Affairs, where our holistic approach to student development
in promoting intellectual, moral, spiritual, and social
development is especially well-suited to those underserved students
in the District of Columbia Public Schools. Student Affairs staff tirelessly
demonstrate this commitment and a perfect example was the response
from Student Affairs departments that helped support these young
people on their excursion to West Virginia. Russ Watts, Director
Outdoor Education lent his expertise in educating the students on
bicycle safety, outdoor hazards and other safety and heath issues
related to the trip. Jeanne, Dennis and Jane played a crucial role
as they monitored the student riders along the picturesque yet
somewhat muddy and rocky bike route. The high schoolers were
motivated, especially because “senior staff” kept pace and offered
words of encouragement to students. At the end, students and
chaperones toured historic Harper’s Ferry and climbed a mountain to
view the beauty of where the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers meet.
Students can realize that the direction of their lives remains tied
to the people they meet, the choices they make, and the experiences
they have. |
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Charlene
C. Brown-McKenzie is the Assistant Director for Educational Community
Involvement Program, and the High School College Internship Program |
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