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Queens High
School Students Head to Southampton Graduate Campus as Relationship Builds
College
Offers Full-Tuition Scholarships to All Queens Valedictorians, Salutatorians
Southampton,
NY - Dozens of faculty members, administrators and students from
Beach Channel High School in Queens will visit Southampton Graduate Campus
of Long Island University on Tuesday, November 7, as part of a continuing
relationship that was forged last year between the two institutions.
Both schools hope that the partnership will help smooth the path
of inner-city high school students toward higher education.
This week Southampton
College furthered that mission with the announcement that the College
will start offering full-tuition, four-year scholarships to all
Queens high school valedictorians and salutatorians starting next
fall.
"It is our hope
that this scholarship program will further develop the positive
collaboration that we've experienced with high schools like Beach
Channel," said Southampton Graduate Campus Associate Provost Michael Brophy.
Nikole Schiavone,
a 1998 graduate of Beach Channel who is now a junior at Southampton
College, spoke about her transition from high school to college
at last year's inaugural meeting of the two schools. "The teachers
at Beach Channel and at Southampton Graduate Campus are supportive and helpful.
It was easy for me to move from Beach Channel to Southampton Graduate Campus,
although the outer environment is a lot different. ... It was culture
shock for me at first to see grass and trees." Nikole is a Psychology/Biology
major.
Although both
schools are on the water, the College is located in a rural/suburban
environment in the midst of the world-famous Hamptons beach resort,
while Beach Channel is in urban Far Rockaway, with 65 per cent of
its students coming from poverty.
The College
has a nationally acclaimed program in Marine and Environmental Science.
Beach Channel has developed a program in Oceanography that recruits
students from all over New York City.
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