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East Carolina University's College of Nursing continues to produce the most registered nurses in North Carolina and its graduates pass the state nursing exam at a rate above the state average, according to data in a report prepared for the UNC Board of Governors. The annual tracking report, received by the board at its June 20 meeting, said that 95 percent of the 273 graduates of ECU's bachelor of science in nursing program who took the state exam in 2013 passed it.
The average state exam passing rate of all 12 UNC system campuses with nursing programs was 90 percent that year. The passing rate of all nursing programs in North Carolina, including those at private colleges and universities, was 85 percent in 2013, the report said.
Enrollment in all UNC nursing programs soared by 31 percent in the past five years, rising from 2,985 in 2009 to 4,212 in 2013, according to the report. Three UNC campuses launched nursing programs in recent years.
With more students in the pipeline, the UNC campuses with nursing programs are graduating 20 percent more RNs now than five years ago, the report said.
But despite the rise in nursing school enrollment, 3,500 nursing jobs remain unfilled across the state, the report said in citing March 2014 employment data.
Across the UNC system, enrollment in master's degree programs grew from 1,471 to 1,637, or 11 percent, between 2009 and 2013. The number studying for doctoral degrees rose from 119 to 157, or 32 percent, in that time period, according to the report, which is based on data submitted by each campus.
At ECU, enrollment in master's degree programs grew from 486 to 547 in that five-year period, while enrollment in doctoral programs grew from 31 to 49 in that period, the report said.
The Board of Governors has encouraged growth in enrollment in nursing programs since 2004 when, in conjunction with the N.C. Institute of Medicine, it created the UNC Committee on the Future of Nursing. The committee concluded that graduating more nurses was critical to improving access to health care.
More recently, the Board of Governors green-lighted new master's and doctoral programs to increase the supply of nurses specially trained to take on more of the health care workload. An example is the doctor of nursing practice degree (DNP) created in 2013 at ECU and five other campuses.
Sylvia Brown, dean of ECU's College of Nursing, said the DNP program will produce graduates critical to improving health care in the region. She said the program "will help to achieve our mission of improving the health of citizens through the preparation of expert practitioners who deliver primary care in rural areas of the state and assume leadership roles to advance health care delivery."
The DNP prepares nurses for direct clinical practice and for executive roles in areas that support clinical practice, such as administration, organizational leadership, academics and health policy.
East Carolina's DNP program coursework is totally online, and clinical practice sites include primary care clinics, hospitals, and public health care agencies. Students are required to attend skills sessions at the College of Nursing several times a year.
Twenty-one students were accepted to the first DNP class in fall 2013. More than half were from eastern North Carolina.
Read the original article on the ECU News Services site.


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Cause for excitment at Cattery: Scott
People keep telling Chris Scott his AFL side is no good, but the Geelong coach feels there's plenty of reason to be excited about the race to the finals.
The Cats held on for a dogged 13-point win against Western Bulldogs on Sunday, joining a logjam of four premiership contenders sitting one game behind Sydney with an 11-4 record.
The result leaves the Cats firmly in the running for a double chance in the finals, two weeks after a shock loss to Gold Coast triggered countless epitaphs of the club's golden era.
"People keep telling me we're no good. They've been telling me for four years," Scott said after his side rolled the Bulldogs 10.9 (69) to 7.14 (56) at a cold, wet and windy Simonds Stadium.
"We're concentrating on what we're doing, but I think everyone around the Geelong region is excited about what's coming.
"Maybe six or seven years ago people were more confident about what's coming.
"But what we are now is genuinely excited."
The Cats' four losses this season have all come on the road - against Port Adelaide, Fremantle, Sydney and Gold Coast.
"Most teams have been beaten by those teams on their home deck," Scott said.
"We haven't lost a game in Melbourne, and our best footy is well and truly in front of us."
The Cats continued their recent trend of underwhelming second halves, but were more clinical and creative with a very slippery Sherrin when it mattered.
The inaccurate Bulldogs kicked six of the game's last nine goals, but had left themselves with too much work to do after giving up a 34-point lead in the second quarter.
Magicians Steve Johnson and Steven Motlop sparked the Cats in the opening half, while wet-weather specialist Jimmy Bartel laid 15 tackles.
The Cats finished with 129 tackles in total, 13 short of the AFL record set by Richmond against Port Adelaide in 2010.
"It was almost a case of the wetter and more difficult it became, the worse we played," Scott said.
Johnson returned to form, while 150-gamer Harry Taylor excelled in conditions that shouldn't have suited him.
Taylor had the job on debutant Jack Redpath and finished with 11 marks, while the Dogs' entire team managed 25.
The crowd of 24,766 voiced their frustration at the freekick count finishing 25-13 in favour of the visitors.
"I hope I've said a number of times, we all have bad days," Scott said.
"And if they had a bad day, so be it.
"If there's parts we don't understand, then we'll have a mature conversation during the week with the powers that be."
Bulldogs coach Brendan McCartney had mixed feelings after the loss.
"They were smarter than us at crucial times and set the ground up really well," McCartney said.
"Down here in the wet, there's no better team at it."
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I've had the good fortune to listen to John Larkin speak numerous times and have leafed through untold numbers of freight analysis updates he's penned over last decade, dating back to my days covering the air cargo markets (when the cameras I owned only used FILM!)
Currently managing director and head of transportation capital markets research for Wall Street firm Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Larkin (seen at right) has forgotten more about the freight markets than most people know, so it was interesting to receive an update from him distilling the broad perspective he'd gained from attending a bevy of conferences, trade shows, and one-on-one meetings with leading transportation firms over a recent 5-day stretch.
As an aside, Larkin tends to be fairly blunt in his freight assessments, too; let me share this example from a recent panel discussion I attended during FTR's annual Transportation Conference last month:
"Ever since the big dip in freight during the Great Recession of 2008/2009, we've seen a new freight pattern emerging," he explained. "The traditional Labor Day to Thanksgiving 'freight peak' is fading and doesn't exist to some extent anymore. The new peak is the May/June timeframe where gas grills, lawn mowers and beer move in great quantities. This is a little different dynamic than we've seen historically."
With that in mind, you'll find a summation of his current perspectives on the direction of the U.S. economy and how it affects the freight market:
The U.S. economy remains mediocre at best. Many decision makers in the private sector are reluctant to aggressively hire, invest in capital projects, or carry any speculative inventory, Larkin said. For the most part, this has created flattish freight volumes across most modal sectors. An exception may be the temperature controlled space wherein population growth and expanded food offerings from big box retailers have generated a somewhat more constructive environment.
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Compliant drivers remain scarce. Companies are pulling out all the stops to rectify this challenging situation, with pay raises being implemented. Bonus programs are being rolled out and expanded. Routing algorithms are being harnessed to maximize productivity of rolling stock and driving associates as well as get drivers home predictably. Collaboration with shippers is increasing in frequency and sophistication with the goal of turning equipment faster at origin and destination. So, despite the driver shortage, equipment is being harnessed more productively, thereby delaying the capacity shortage at least until the spring of 2014 and probably beyond that. Many suggested that the catalyst behind the ultimate driver shortage will be the mandatory use of ELDs (electronic logging devices)—which most likely will not become a reality until late 2015 or sometime in 2016.
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"Cooking has been a big part of my life forever," he commented - and that's no joke. Louie Stithem has been smoking meat religiously for the last 35 years, and is still going strong. When asked who got him started, Louie didn't hesitate to mention his buddy John Sweeny. Back then, the boys used modified refrigerators as their smokers. Louie continued with this method until recently when he purchased a gas fired, stainless steel smoker. When asked about the change, he inferred that his preference was for the frig but it's getting hard to find the right stuff to alter. By that he meant he needs an old frig with a metal interior, instead of plastic, as is common now. The other piece to the puzzle is a single burning hot plate. The hot plates are also getting hard to come by. Now days, he says, it's easier to find a fifth burner - but they don't get hot enough to use for smoking. Basically, Louie was forced into switching after his last frig wore out. 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DURHAM, N.C.—Senior Ned Crotty turned in a six-point effort on one goal and five assists to lead the sixth-ranked Blue Devils to an 11-7 win over No. 20 Bucknell in the men's lacrosse season opener at Koskinen Stadium. Duke had four different players with at least three points on the afternoon.
"We don't know how Ned [Crotty] is necessarily going to be [on attack] because that was his first Division I game playing attack," head coach John Danowski said." "We think what he could become, but we don't know what he could become. If he does play like he played today, I would be delighted. But we don't try to put pressure on any one individual, we try to play together as a team."
Duke is now 1-0 on the season, while Bucknell drops its first game to fall to 0-1. The contest marked the second consecutive year the Blue Devils and Bison have met in the season opener.
"We had our good times and our bad times, both offensively and defensively," Crotty said. "Offensively we had our times where we really looked great, we were moving the ball and were great in transition. There were other times where we had a basic problem of getting the ball around, but that's stuff we are going to be able to work out as the season goes along."
Steve Schoeffel added three tallies to the Duke cause, while Brad Ross finished with four points from two goals and two assists. Junior Max Quinzani dropped in a pair of scores and handed out one helper to give him three points after one game.
Duke jumped out to a 6-2 halftime lead and held off the Bison in the final 30 minutes for the four-goal victory. Bucknell was led by Joe Mele with five goals, while Austin Winter had a goal and four assists. Duke allowed just four even-man goals in the game.
The two teams spent much of the opening 10 minutes trying to feel each other out and shaking out the opening-game jitters. Duke broke through first with 6:42 left in the opening quarter as Crotty fed a pass through the middle to Schoeffel who fired it high into the left corner.
Leading 1-0 with just over two minutes to play in the first 15 minutes, the Blue Devils added two more in seven seconds for the 3-0 lead after one session. Schoeffel added his second goal of the contest with on a quick break after Duke cleared Bucknell's 10-man ride. Ross provided the helper on the score.
Bucknell rallied back in the early minutes of the second frame with a pair of goals to make it 3-2. Mele and Winter hooked up for the first of four times for a man-up score just 27 seconds into the quarter. Less than three minutes later, Winter scooped up a loose ball in front of the net and dumped it past Duke goalie Rob Schroeder to make it a one-goal game.
The final five minutes of the period belonged to Duke as the Blue Devils added three more scores in 1:43 to head into the locker room with a four-goal lead. Sophomore Justin Turri started the run with his first collegiate goal. Turri took a Crotty feed on the right side of the net and rifled and underhanded shot past Bucknell's Nick Sciubba.
Quinzani got on the scoreboard 26 seconds later for the 5-2 lead and Ross made it 6-2 at the 3:02 mark when he sent his shot screaming from 15-yards out low into the net.
Coming out of the break looking to stretch their lead the Blue Devils got hit with a three-minute non-releasable penalty. The Bison took advantage as Mele and Winter combined for two scores to cut the Duke advantage to two.
Duke and Bucknell closed out the third quarter trading two-goal runs to make it an 8-6 game heading into the final stanza.
The Blue Devils opened the fourth quarter in commanding fashion, scoring a man-down goal and killing off another three-minute penalty for the 9-6 lead. It was Schoeffel who kept the ball out of the Bison's stick and split a pair of defenders to dump the ball in the cage.
"Whenever you kill a penalty, whether it is a 30-second or a three-minute, it's a huge confidence boost for the whole team," Parker McKee said. And when you do two of them for three minutes each, that's awesome."
"It's very important to form a defensive identity," McKee said. "Being able to hold teams down is going to be one of our focuses. We've always stressed defense and this year it is a little more. We have new guys in different roles. Rob Schroeder played awesome for us today, so that was great for him."
Junior Will McKee registered his first goal in a Blue Devil uniform with six minutes left to play and Ross rounded out the scoring to ice the victory.
In goal, Schroeder turned in a solid showing with seven saves, including three in the fourth quarter. Sciubba made eight stops for the Bison in 60 minutes of action. Parker McKee and Ryan McFadyen helped anchor the defense, picking up seven and five ground balls, respectively.
Duke had three different players line up at faceoffs. Sam Payton led the way at the X, winning six of 11 restarts. Overall, Duke went 9-of-19 in faceoffs. Bucknell held a 37-27 advantage in shots, while the Blue Devils won the ground ball battle 39-36. Bucknell went 3-of-5 on extra-man opportunities, while Duke was 1-of-4.
The Blue Devils return to action on Feb. 20, hosting No. 16 Colgate at 4 p.m., at Koskinen Stadium.


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People have been hoarding objects for thousands of years.
People still do it today, but its origins lie in prehistory. This was very common in the Bronze Age (around 3000 years ago) when people collected items, such as weapons and tools, and buried them in pits and ditches.
Hoards may contain only three or four objects, or up to fifty or more. The largest Bronze Age hoard currently known in Britain contains over 6500 objects! Many hoards have been found in Wales recently and reported through the Portable Antiquities Scheme Cymru. This greatly adds to our understanding of prehistoric Wales.
Most recently, the Trevethin hoard from Torfaen has caught media attention, containing three axes and two spearheads. Other hoards have recently been found in the Vale of Glamorgan, Carmarthenshire, and Monmouthshire.
Buried objects include swords, spears, axes, and ingots of raw metal. Sometimes these objects were buried complete and pristine, while others were deliberately broken, burnt and bent before being put in the ground.
Many questions surround this practice.
Why were so many objects buried?
Why were some objects broken, while others were left intact?
Were hoards for religious purposes (e.g. as an offering)? Or did they act as stores of raw material that were lost?
It's unlikely we will ever truly know the answers to these questions, and there is no "one-size-fits-all" approach. However, archaeologists can speculate based on how and where the hoard was buried and by comparing it to known historical periods in which hoarding was also practiced.
For instance, many hoards in Roman and Medieval times were deposited for safe keeping, during times of unrest. Meanwhile, objects deposited on hilltops or in rivers may have been symbolic markers within the landscape.
We can also think about what people do with objects today.
Some people collect objects for a hobby, such as stamps, coins, or shot glasses. Sometimes it's for a specific purpose, such as preserving heritage – museums are an excellent example of this.
Similarly, items might be destroyed or discarded for a variety of reasons, such as eliminating a memory, commemorating the death of a friend or family, or simply as waste. Of course we can't forget that sometimes objects might simply be lost.
Whatever the reason, hoarding formed an important tradition in Bronze Age Wales. With every new discovery, archaeologists get one step closer to understanding prehistoric ideas and values.
The Trevethin hoard is one of several hoards that was responsibly reported through the Portable Antiquities Scheme Cymru. It is now proudly on display at Pontypool Museum where it can be enjoyed by all members of the public. It was acquired with funding from the Saving Treasures: Telling Stories Project. More details on how the hoard was investigated, as well as a conversation with the finder, Gareth Wileman, can be found here.


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PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Scientists using data from twin lunar-orbiting spacecraft are gaining new insight into how the face of the moon received its rugged good looks, NASA reports.
The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission has yielded clues to the asymmetric distribution of lunar impact basins, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., reported Thursday.
"Since time immemorial, humanity has looked up and wondered what made the 'man in the moon,'" said Maria Zuber, GRAIL principal investigator from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "We know the dark splotches are large, lava-filled, impact basins that were created by asteroid impacts about 4 billion years ago. GRAIL data indicate that both the near side and the far side of the moon were bombarded by similarly large impactors, but they reacted to them much differently."
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Observation: Here, we observed that QBO has the lowest average rating score and the highest proportion of 2 & 1 star ratings.
Procedure: For this analysis, close competitors of QuickBooks Online product such as Xero, FreshBooks, Sage and Wave was considered and the ratings given for these products by the reviewers of g2crowd.com were normalised. They were then classified into three buckets - 'positive' if they had a 5 or 4 star, 'neutral' if they had a 3 star and 'negative' if they were rated 2 or below.
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Furthermore, since QuickBooks Online product was aimed at catering to the accounting needs of small and medium businesses, dislikes and negative sentiment associated with the product is a major concern for Intuit.
Procedure: QuickBooks Online product was compared with QuickBooks Desktop, Xero, FreshBooks, Sage and Wave for the ratings, usage of the products across different industry verticals and company sizes. The reviews from g2crowd.com were scrapped using Python, along with the details of the reviewer such as role, experience, industry information, size of company and, likes and dislikes for the product. G2crowd.com identified the industry verticals and classified the size of the company based on the user information provided on their respective LinkedIn accounts.
Observation: It was observed that the users associate positive sentiment features such as Accessibility and Multi-user Ability, etc., and negative sentiment towards Customer Support and Security Issues. User-Friendliness (associated with negative sentiment) of the product and Accessibility (associated with positive sentiment) are the two topics being widely mentioned with respect to QuickBooks Online.
Procedure: To understand how the users perceive the different features of the product, conversation data was scrapped from g2crowd.com. There were around 120 reviews specific to QuickBooks Online. The reviews were then assigned a polarity score based on set of key sentiment words and the combination of their occurrences in the conversation. Themes bringing out the perceptions on the different features of the product were listed and the conversations were flagged under all the relevant themes they were reflecting.
Representation: The 'red' colour indicates negative sentiment while 'green' indicates positive. The intensity of the colour is indicative of the intensity of the sentiment (with dark shade representing high intensity). The size of the bubble is indicative of the number of conversations for that topic.
Observation: Reflective of the inference from the analysis of conversations in g2crowd.com, here again customer service and fraudulent acts are the key areas of concern for the users.
Procedure: To identify the complaint areas for QuickBooks Online product, around 117 reviews were downloaded from consumeraffairs.com, a website where the users expressed their concerns more than accolades. The topics of concern were identified and the reviews were categorised accordingly.
Representation: The size of the bubbles in the graph is representative of the volume of the conversations belonging to that particular theme. The greater the size of the bubble, greater is the expression of concern for that topic.
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By Elizabeth Miller
Boulder Weekly, Thursday, August 15, 2013
Jasmine Johnson sees what's at stake for her future every time she goes to downtown Denver to see her sister's theater productions. She says it clicked when she was in seventh grade, and they were passing by homeless people out on the street in the cold.
"I didn't want to be like that when I got older, so I decided from then on I needed to work a little harder," Jasmine says.
She had started going to classes at the Family Learning Center just a year before, and in a class there, a teacher had explained the options available to someone with a high school education or lower, compared to someone with a college degree.
"I finally got it that an education was the only way for me to be successful, and so I started working really hard and going home and working for long hours," Jasmine says.
She's on the honor roll at Summit Middle School and is starting at Arapahoe Ridge High School this fall with a full schedule of advanced classes and hopes to move on to college at Boston University, Harvard or Stanford to become a lawyer.
"I've wanted to be a lawyer since I was a little kid because I wanted justice for everyone and I want it for all races," Jasmine says. "Sometimes in Boulder, stuff is unjust because we're African American, and I want to be a lawyer to get justice for everyone, no matter of their skin color."
Her mother, Raynita Johnson, says Jasmine stays up late at night finishing her homework.
She's confident in Jasmine's success because she believes she's enrolled in good schools — and getting her children into good schools was part of her motivation for moving the family to Boulder when they relocated from California in 2007 — but also because the programs at the Family Learning Center have given them tools to succeed both socially and academically.
"It's empowered them to be who they are and be proud of who they are," Johnson says. "The program makes kids understand that you've got to work just a little bit harder and do just a little bit more because then they have so much more opportunities."
When they moved from San Diego to Boulder, Raynita Johnson says, her older daughter, Autumn, in particular, struggled to fit in what was suddenly a predominantly Caucasian environment, and her grades suffered. She hadn't seen much of town before she started at school, so that's where it hit her that her surroundings had changed.
"It was much more diverse in California than here. That took some getting used to," she says.
Johnson, a single mother, was laid off three times in 19 years of working in the airline industry before going back to school to study to become a mortician four years ago.
"In our society, we really don't care about poverty, but you always will have the unfortunate people, and unfortunate people, they don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Ooh, I can't wait to be poor.' No one does that," Johnson says. "Nineteen years ago, when I started my career in the airline business, … I would never have fathomed that I'd be in the situation that I am today."
Because she's still a full-time student, things are tough, she says, in ways she just doesn't talk to her kids about.
"You just try to make things happy for kids and do right each and every day," she says. "And pray and reinforce that their lives can be so much better if they go to school and do well."
She can't say enough good things about the Family Learning Center or its founder, Brenda Ingram-Lyle.
"I think what makes it such a wonderful program is that Brenda has a real core dedication in wanting to see every kid excel," Johnson says. "She has a fiery desire for everyone to go to college and have equal opportunity in education and so that they will be successful."
Jasmine says this summer's program, the Ignite Your Potential class, a free summer program for the first 50 students who apply, "really opened my mind to what I really wanted to be when I grow up and I have to think about that soon."
The class this summer focused on coaching students on how to prepare their college applications. At 14, Jasmine is a ways off from that now, but her sister, Autumn, who is 17, actually wrote her application essay this summer for the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She's been coached in choosing back-up schools and putting together her resume and portfolio. She knows her dream to be an actress is a lofty one, but, she says, "I'm just going to follow my dreams. It'll work out."
And the message she and the other students at Ignite have been getting this summer comes back to the same refrain: Why not apply to Harvard, to Julliard, to Pratt? You won't know if you can get in unless you apply. That line of thought is the motif behind the coaching given every day at the Ignite Your Potential class — don't underestimate yourself.
"This is our subtle way of trying to interrupt, disrupt, that sense of, 'I'm from fewer means than others and I shouldn't even think of being able to go any further than I am or than my family has gone,'" says Alphonse Keasley, assistant vice chancellor in CU's Office of Diversity, Equality and Community Engagement.
Keasley worked with Ingram-Lyle to create the Ignite Your Potential program, which is run by the Family Learning Center in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder. The program was designed to provide low income, minority high school students, many of whom are the first in their families to apply for college, with college preparation in everything from mastering the basic academic skills they'll be expected to demonstrate in math, reading and writing to coaching on finances and the opportunity to investigate their own family history. This year's program had the specific focus of preparing rising high school seniors for applying for college by actually coaching them through the process of searching out the application requirements for colleges of their choice and writing application essays. Students attended sessions with financial aid staff to discuss personal budgets and affording higher education. They were coached by admissions counselors and given one-on-one support with their writing.
It's great preparation for any high school student. But multicultural, low socioeconomic background students who are the first generation in their families ever to apply for college face a litany of issues, from logistical questions on completing the applications, knowing how and where to apply for financial aid, to simply the belief that higher education — even in the face of rising tuition costs — is still an option.
According to U.S. Census data, 7.8 percent of Hispanic and 9.2 percent of African American people over the age of 25 have completed a bachelor's degree, compared to 14.3 percent of white Americans.
Getting to goals like the one President Barack Obama announced for America, having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020, will require boosting the graduation rate among minority students.
"Everyone is grappling with these issues of, how do we close the achievement gap, how do we increase graduation rates for poor and minority children," says Lyle. "It all sounds really good, but when you really, kind of like the skin of an onion, when you peel it back, it's really, basically, mastery of skills."
She describes working with high school students who read a paragraph and understand a handful of the words in it — which makes it impossible to complete the homework for a higher level science class.
All too often, parents and kids build their high school coursework like a house without a blueprint, Lyle says. "Too many kids and parents are saying, 'My kid's going to college,' but you look at the transcripts and say, 'No, because you're not taking the right classes to go where you think you want to go.'"
Remedial kids end up in classes that split freshman-level math and science classes over two years — and they may think they've done the four years of math or science required by universities, but haven't progressed to the required level of coursework.
"What we're trying to do is teach kids and families, know where you're going," Lyle says.
The Family Learning Center tracked 100 kids who joined their preschool program in the '80s over almost all of the 33 years Lyle has worked at the center. She calls the results of their program "phenomenal": 98 percent had moved out of low income housing, many into their own homes, and 98 percent of the students had graduated from high school, 68 percent from college. One had a Ph.D. Several had master's degrees.
"We know what we do works," Ingram-Lyle says.
So does the federal government. Nationwide, the Federal Talent Search program, created by the Higher Education Act of 1965 and run by the U.S. Department of Education, shares a similar goal to the Ignite Your Potential class of increasing the presence of students from disadvantaged backgrounds in postsecondary education. That program sends competitive grants to projects that provide tutorial services, aptitude assessments, mentoring programs, alternative education, career or educational guidance or work with groups traditionally underrepresented in postsecondary education, including homeless youth or foster care. A 2006 report on the effectiveness of the program in Florida, Indiana and Texas found that participants were 6 to 18 percent more likely to enroll in a public college or university than nonparticipants from similar backgrounds, and 14 to 28 percentage points more likely to be first-time applicants for financial aid.
Despite that success, Talent Search has seen decreases in funding over the last seven years, and corresponding cuts in the number of participants.
Being the first in their families to apply for higher education programs means there's not a lot of advice coming from their parents.
"They have emotional support, but not structured support," says Vanessa Schatz, who's teaching the writing component of the course. The skill levels she meets vary, she says, but the majority of students are very tuned in, and very grateful. The narratives she encounters evaluating their essays, she says, are sometimes a surprise. They describe raising their own siblings. They mention gun violence.
"They're definitely an absent history of this community," Schatz says.
Schatz joins them for class the week before their graduation from the program in a computer lab that was once a gymnasium, one fan aimed at the first few rows. Roughly half the seats are occupied by students already at computers — most of them don't have computers at home, so this is their only chance to type their essays.
Schatz reminds them they're in crunch time, and to focus on memorable writing. A whiteboard offers reminders on thesis statements, claims and evidence and persuasive summaries. The sound of typing ebbs and flows.
One student writes about a truancy problem that plagued her for three years of high school — the same amount of time she describes caring for a baby she started babysitting when it was a month old, which is how she's decided she wants to go to nursing school. One wants to be a zoologist. One wants to write for ESPN. One wants to become a translator.
The aspiring zoologist, Joshua Efe, who wrote about his powers of observation in the animal world and how that world makes sense when people don't, says getting ahead in his application process has been the big benefit from the class.
"I learned how to write my application essay. I had no idea how to do that, so that was really helpful," he says. Efe's parents did go to college, but came as international students from Nigeria.
"My college process is radically different, and high school process is radically different from theirs because they didn't have to take any ACTs, SATs or subject tests," he says. He's studying to take those exams this fall. "When I'm talking to my mother about all these standardized tests, she's thinking, 'This is just going over my head. I don't know what any of these are.' And I'm the first so it's just I'm teaching everyone how to do this basically, so when my sister and brother come along they'll go, 'Oh this is how we do this.'"
A CU admissions counselor has gone over his transcripts to talk about what he needs to achieve academically in his senior year, which he starts this fall. A team leader with the Family Learning Center coached him in looking at schools outside the country, and he has plans to apply to universities in the United Kingdom and Canada. And he's been shown some scholarship websites he hadn't heard of before.
"I think learning how to find scholarships and learning what grants I would qualify for and how to fill out a FAFSA was really helpful because there is no way on this planet I can do this on my own," he says.
"Through the end of high school junior year, I didn't really understand what I wanted to do. I didn't really have big ambitions like other people did," says Chelsea Kessler-Bauersfeld, a rising senior readying her application for UCLA. "I wanted to take the class because it helped me go into full gear of the desire, the potential I had."
Her essay describes the inspiration she's drawn from Audrey Hepburn and how she wants to go on to design her own advertisements. She mentions the lotus flower, a symbol of new beginnings. Her parents never went to college, she says, and neither did her grandparents, who are now her legal guardians. Before they adopted her, she was raising her younger brother. In her essay, she recalls feeding and dressing him since before he could walk.
"When they found out about this program, they knew it would be a good opportunity for me to understand what I could do," she says. She'll be moving from Nederland to Los Angeles if she gets into UCLA.
"It's a big change, but I'm ready for it," she says. "I want a new perspective about myself and my world."
Ignite Your Potential emerged in response to two incidents of racial hazing at Boulder high schools in a single week, each including death threats, one directed at black students, and one at Hispanic students.
In the wake of those events, as community members rushed forward to offer support, Keasley and Ingram-Lyle looked at the situation, Keasley says, and realized they were both in positions to do something about it.
"Brenda and I come from two different parts of the United States, she from California and me from New Orleans, but we grew up in black communities where there was tremendous care for us, and great hope for us," Keasley says. "Again, two different experiences in life, but within communities where there truly was a strong desire for us to have a tremendous future. And when we started comparing notes, we recognized that our children in Boulder weren't necessarily — children of color in particular — weren't getting that same kind of 'We believe in you no matter what.' So we started this program called Ignite Your Potential."
Keasley, Ingram-Lyle and Justina Boyd, coordinator for the First Generation Program at CU's Center for Multicultural Affairs, worked with the university to draft the curriculum for the program based on their answers to what they needed to see from graduating high school students.
It also meant drawing from their own experiences, Ingram-Lyle says.
"It's our lives. We grew up with a lack of privilege and poverty and so we knew what we had to do that worked to get us to individually have upward mobility," she says.
At their first graduation ceremony in 2011 for a program, which was a sports-based awareness program designed to simply get kids to come on campus and realize it was open to them, the difference the class had made reverberated through the room.
"We were able to see that there really was a difference, that the students did now come to believe more in their family, in the value of their family, culturally speaking, and why it was important to continue towards their aspirations of wanting to do more for themselves in life," Keasley says.
In addition to skills, a portion of the class covers race, class and power structures in America. Students were asked to study their own genealogy.
"The research is really clear on that — kids who feel good about their cultural heritage, whatever that may be, kids who understand that their ancestors contributed to this country, do better in school, they do better in life, so that is critical," Ingram- Lyle says. "We all have to have that sense of culture and belonging. We have to be proud of who we are and be proud of our families."
At the closing ceremonies, she says, she's heard students admit that learning about where their families come from, whether Hispanic, African American or Native American — and history for each is also part of the curriculum — and their contributions and struggles changed their perspective on their own families.
"A lot of the kids actually stood up and said, 'Before I learned these things about culture and not only my own particular culture but other people, I thought that as a Mexican I was just nothing, that my parents hadn't contributed anything and I wasn't really that proud,'" Ingram-Lyle says. "They really realized that they really did belong here and that their parents had these incredible stories of contribution and value that they never took the time to find out, which in turn created in them a greater sense of belonging and connectedness to their communities and gave them a greater sense of they could do anything."
The experiences connect students both to their communities and their parents, she says, and give them a greater appreciation of the sacrifices their parents and grandparents made so they could grow up in Boulder.
"You've got to know where you come from," Ingram-Lyle says. "That's especially true in a community like Boulder."
The students, some of whom have multiple years of high school still ahead and are just mapping out a long-term educational plan to get them to their goals, still have the same potential hazards facing other high school kids, like alcohol, drugs and teen pregnancy. In Boulder, Ingram-Lyle says, they'll feel the particular pressure of being poor keenly compared to other privileged children, whose parents' higher level salaries and higher education may make their kids appear smarter in class. That it's just been a difference of opportunity isn't readily visible to the kids, she says. What they see is that they don't have the clothes, the shoes, the cars their classmates do, and that they don't always have the preparation.
It's easier to be poor in Boulder than it is in south central L.A., where she grew up, Ingram-Lyle says. There's less violence, for one thing.
"But it is very hard to be poor in Boulder in a community that is so affluent, because you have so many kids that have so much privilege," she says. And not just privilege with a dollar sign — privilege like growing up in a home with a parent who has a Ph.D. augmenting their student's classroom learning with educational experiences outside of that. The result is that underprivileged students, still sitting next to the same kids they've been in class with since kindergarten, watch those privileged students surge ahead with knowledge and skills, Lyle says, and draw the conclusion that they're just not as smart.
"Poverty and the effects of poverty are huge," Ingram-Lyle says. "Families are barely keeping it together. I think kids are feeling the stress of that. I have kids whose parents, at the end of the month, don't have food, or enough food."
The subsidized housing in Boulder is nearly indistinguishable, she says, but that has a flip side.
"People don't really think there are so many people here who are hungry, so many people here who are struggling, because you really don't see it," Lyle says. The kids see it though — that they have to work, that they don't always have clothes or cars their counterparts do.
"The idea of privilege is really hard for many people who have privilege to really see," Keasley says. "But those who are outside of privilege recognize it on a moment to moment basis."
"If you have to look at the magnitude of the problem of poverty in this community, of all the issues that kids and families are facing, it becomes so overwhelmingly daunting that you're just too depressed to do anything," Lyle says. "But if you just can say, OK, this is kind of like that old saying, how do you eat an elephant? It's like, one piece at a time. So how do you change the world to make a difference? It's one child, one family at a time."
The coaching they provide is about finding the pathway to your goals that fits for you — through college, community college, whatever it takes, and Lyle says she just tries to stay focused on reaching each child and family in the program individually.
"We may not be able to impact all of these systems — we may not be able to change things in Boulder Valley School District, we may not be able to change a lot of things," she says. "But what we could do is take as many kids as we could grab a hold of who want to have this opportunity and we could change the world literally one child, one family at a time."


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|By Erez Marom | Published Jun 12, 2012 | Photo Techniques
|A spider on the hunt is one of countless scenes available to photograph, if you know how to find them.
The arthropod world is virtually endless. With over a million recorded species – believed to be but a fraction of the actual total – you can shoot ten different species every single day of your life and never get close to documenting them all. Finding them in their native habitat exhibiting natural behavior, however, can be a challenge for those new to wildlife macro photography. In this article I'll walk you through the task of locating and handling macro subjects in the field.
|Elad and Bruno admiring two spiders in their natural habitat. The key for any successful macro photographer is to be able to closely observe a subject without disturbing its natural behavior.
First, however, I should point out that insect activity is influenced by climate and seasonal conditions, which of course vary greatly around the globe. Here I'll speak to my experiences photographing in countries with 'normal' winter/summer climates in which mornings are chilly and midday is considerably warmer.
The first order of business is getting to know the best seasons of the year to find and photograph insects. While there are insects present year round in most climates, it is in springtime that the populations truly boom. Spring, in most species, is the time of year when the adult hatches from its cocoon, and starts frantically looking for food and for a mate. The fields are absolutely packed with invertebrates of all species, flying, hunting, mating – doing everything we want them to do to create an interesting shot.
|Robber fly mating is precarious. The male often waits for the female to catch prey before he approaches, so he doesn't become her next meal himself!
During summer months, insect numbers dwindle noticeably but there are still lots of subjects available. In the fall and winter, however, things are usually not as good. Most adult insects will have died out and the newborns will be in one of their larval stages.
One of the most common questions I get is, 'Where are good places for finding little critters?' The answer is simple. Insects and other invertebrates are everywhere. They exist in almost any environment. And the more remote and wild the location, the higher the quantity and diversity.
The best locations though, are usually ones with damp earth, vegetation, and most importantly – water. I always recommend exploring areas near lakes or in fields with low growth. A body of water with a field beside it is just perfect. Some insects (such as dragonflies) are only found close to water, since their larval stage is fully aquatic.
|A butterfly found in low vegetation.
|Be careful when you walk in the field: there are countless meticulously-built spider webs!
Many species of course, have no problem with a drier environment; robber flies and mantises, to name just two. Fields of low growth vegetation are much easier to maneuver in and generally allow for more pleasing compositions. All else being equal, you'll likely have much more success in a sparse poppy field than a densely packed sunflower plantation for example.
Arguably the most important consideration of all is knowing what times of the day are most conducive to locating and shooting invertebrates. Time of day has a huge impact not only on subject activity, but obviously on the quality of light as well.
The best time to shoot non-active arthropods is very early in the morning. Why? Because insects are less active when the temperature is lower. Under crisp early morning conditions, not only will insects hold 'poses', they can be easily manipulated and repositioned by hand without causing them any harm.
|Handling insects is easy to do if you approach them in their dormant hours.
|Early morning is great for unique scenes, such as this robber fly warming its flight muscles.
|Dramatic lighting is another important reason to shoot during the 'magic hours' of early morning.
Finding insects is one thing. Getting close enough to photograph them at macro-required distances while they're exhibiting interesting behavior is another skill altogether. But its not as difficult as it may seem if you know some basics.
The first thing to know is that insects are highly motion-sensitive. Making sharp, abrupt movements close to an active insect will likely cause it to flee. The rule of thumb here is to plan your movements carefully and perform them as if in slow motion. In addition, you should know that insects' eyes are ultra-sensitive to changes in light. This is clearly a survival response, since a sudden shift from light to dark could indicate a predator is approaching. By taking care to move toward the subject without casting a shadow near it, you increase the chance of it staying put for the shot.
|An active butterfly can still be approached if we make sure we don't frighten it by casting a shadow or making sudden movements.
Finally, it's important to understand the types of activities in which insects are more prone to remain stationary. A robber fly, for example is less likely to fly away if it's carrying prey. A female spider will not run away from her egg sack, even at the expense of her life. Knowing even a few little details like these enables you to get very close to your subject.
|A robber fly carrying prey is easy to get close to, if you approach it slowly.
|A female crab spider guarding its egg sack will never leave it, allowing an extreme magnification shot with minimal effort.
With these tips in mind, you can greatly increase your chances of creating unique and impressive wildlife macro imagery.


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