Great Expectations Students Attend Inauguration Festivities
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Three JSRCC students inward the college’s Great Expectations plan were with a grouping of xxx students in addition to coaches who attended President Barack Obama’s Inauguration on Monday, Jan 21st. The tickets were given to the Virginia Community College System who inward plough shared them with students inward the Great Expectations plan from some the state. Dedra E. Hampton, Great Expectations Coordinator/Coach for JSRCC, selected the 3 JSR students based on their academic achievement.
The Great Expectations plan helps immature adults who are or were lately affiliated with the Virginia Foster Care System transition to college. The plan helps Virginia’s foster youth arrive at access to a community college didactics in addition to transition successfully from the foster tending scheme to living independently. There are currently 62 students at J. Sarge enrolled inward the Great Expectations program, the largest Great Expectations plan inward the state. Since 2008 when the plan was created at JSR, to a greater extent than than 400 students accept participated inward the plan at the College.
The students were responsible for their ain shipping to Washington, in addition to the grouping assembled to sentinel the Inauguration which started at 11:30 a.m.
The Great Expectations plan helps immature adults who are or were lately affiliated with the Virginia Foster Care System transition to college. The plan helps Virginia’s foster youth arrive at access to a community college didactics in addition to transition successfully from the foster tending scheme to living independently. There are currently 62 students at J. Sarge enrolled inward the Great Expectations program, the largest Great Expectations plan inward the state. Since 2008 when the plan was created at JSR, to a greater extent than than 400 students accept participated inward the plan at the College.
The students were responsible for their ain shipping to Washington, in addition to the grouping assembled to sentinel the Inauguration which started at 11:30 a.m.
“This was a nifty chance for our students to move in addition to thus unopen to the President, Vice President, Senators in addition to other dignitaries in addition to to witness the swearing inward of our commencement African American President on medico King’s Birthday,” Dedra Hampton noted. “The students were actually impressed that the President held the same bibles used yesteryear Abraham Lincoln in addition to medico King for his swearing in.”
In improver to attention the inauguration, the grouping attended an Open House hosted yesteryear the Casey Family Programs, an organization whose mission is working to ensure that every shaver has a safe, nurturing, in addition to permanent family. At the Open House the grouping met other foster tending youth in addition to alumni representing iv dissimilar states, in addition to they had a jeopardy to network with representatives of The Rising Tides, an organization that provides numerous fiscal benefits to foster youth, in addition to The Foster Club of America.
For to a greater extent than data on the Great Expectations plan delight take in http://www.reynolds.edu/ge/default.htm or contact Dedra Hampton at dhampton@reynolds.edu.