NCPA Summer Institute

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09/08/2021 Added

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NCPA is an innovative college access program that prepares academically-talented, first-generation, low-income students for college and their future careers.

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[00:00:13.720]I feel extremely prepared.
[00:00:14.920]I feel like I'm ready for anything.
[00:00:16.180]I've been meeting even different groups,
[00:00:17.840]different groups of people that have told me
[00:00:20.760]they have my back and I have theirs.
[00:00:22.810]And with NCPA, it just makes it even more easy.
[00:00:25.610]I feel like this is actually the first time
[00:00:27.920]outside of my real family, that this is my second family.
[00:00:30.820]I'm very, very excited and I know that NCPA
[00:00:35.503]is here to help him at all means.
[00:00:39.290]And all he has to do is ask
[00:00:42.230]and they'll be there to guide him.
[00:00:44.100]And I'm very confident and I'm very at peace
[00:00:48.040]that he's going to do just fine.
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[00:00:58.360]It's important to acclimate them early
[00:01:00.530]because it gives them a sense of comfort
[00:01:02.890]that somebody is here with me.
[00:01:04.520]We communicate to them that, "You know what?
[00:01:07.210]I've taken my time to go through this process
[00:01:10.060]to transition here.
[00:01:11.600]And I have what it takes to be successful here."
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[00:01:25.650]I grew up in a family of six
[00:01:27.190]and I've always been with them.
[00:01:28.410]So being away from them was just very scary for me.
[00:01:31.270]Being alone in my room and sleeping by myself is just scary.
[00:01:34.320]But I have a support system
[00:01:35.440]which makes me feel a lot less alone.
[00:01:37.480]When you know people around you,
[00:01:38.630]and you have so many connections,
[00:01:39.780]the world kind of feels smaller
[00:01:41.730]because we're all like in a sense connected.
[00:01:43.600]I definitely feel more connected.
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[00:02:00.282]It's a huge weight off your shoulder
[00:02:01.870]because it's a lot of responsibility.
[00:02:03.840]It's a lot that you don't know.
[00:02:05.630]You're like, "What are we supposed to do?
[00:02:07.369]Where are we going?"
[00:02:09.930]And so having NCPA as that resource was a huge relief.
[00:02:15.030]The mission of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
[00:02:17.630]as a land-grant university,
[00:02:19.320]has as central to our mission, access to education
[00:02:24.220]and the transformative power of education.
[00:02:27.700]That's been our mission for 152 years.
[00:02:30.930]The Nebraska College Preparatory Academy
[00:02:33.770]is an opportunity for us
[00:02:36.310]to broaden the ability of students who are first gen.
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[00:03:01.890]It's not just getting them to college,
[00:03:03.600]but it's graduating them from college.
[00:03:05.800]And graduating with little to no debt,
[00:03:08.060]because that will give them the freedom.
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[00:03:23.620]I'm very confident going into this semester.
[00:03:25.440]I have all the resources I need.
[00:03:27.050]I have numbers, emails, I know where to locate everything.
[00:03:30.600]And if I struggle to find those,
[00:03:32.440]I know exactly who to contact to help me move forward.
[00:03:35.300]Teamwork is crucial for success
[00:03:37.040]because anything that is whole requires its parts
[00:03:41.940]to be whole and complete.
[00:03:44.160]You need its parts to all function together.
[00:03:46.260]So if I was just my individual self, yeah, I could do great,
[00:03:49.140]but I can do even better with people around me.
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