Michael Partis, a Fordham College at Rose Hill senior, discusses the challenges of college with visiting high school students from Pablo Neruda Academy in the Bronx. Photo by Ken Levinson
Bronx High School Students ‘Shadow’ Fordham Undergraduates
1/15/2008
Not too many 15-year-olds can say they’ve attended classes at Fordham University. But Shawntel Jones, a sophomore from the Pablo Neruda Academy in the Bronx, did just that as part of the Office of Multicultural Affairs’ College Shadow Program – a weeklong event in which the youngsters teamed up with Fordham undergraduates as a way to gain insight into the college experience.
Jones said the classes on “Effective Speaking” and “Affirmative Action and the American Dream” she attended during the week of Nov. 5 with her mentor, Fordham College at Rose Hill senior Jasmine Velazquez, 21, were anything but boring.
“The [professors] actually get to know their students,” said Jones, who plans to attend college to become an engineer. “I enjoyed the back and forth between student and teacher. It was great.”
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