[Vision2020] Vision2020 Digest, Vol 131, Issue 3

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And then there's this non-traditional student!  Graduating college before high school, for FREE!


Indiana teen graduating from college before getting high school diploma

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GARY, Ind. -- Eighteen-year-old Raven Osborne is about to get her college degree.

"I graduate from college on May 5," she told CBS News' Jericka Duncan.

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Raven Osborne

 CBS NEWS

But when does she graduate from high school? May 22.

Yes, it's true; Raven gets her college degree two weeks before her high school diploma.

"When people hear that … they're going, 'What? How did she do that?'" Duncan said.

"Yeah they think I'm lying," Raven said.

She did it through online classes, year-round community college and two years at Purdue University Northwest. Her semester-long college courses counted as a full year of high school credit.

"Sophomore, that was the most work. I had five high school classes, four college classes," she said.

Raven attends the 21st Century Charter High School in Gary, Indiana. The school is surrounded by dilapidated buildings, a common sight throughout the city.

Everyone here is required to take college classes on a college campus in order to graduate.

Some get just a few credits. Five of this year's 43 graduates earned associate's degrees. And then there's Raven.

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Kevin Teasley

 CBS NEWS

Kevin Teasley started the foundation that runs the school. He uses state funding for tuition and transportation to nearby college campuses.

"The one line item I want to see go up every single year is how much I'm spending on college," Teasley said.

"When I started it was $10,000. Last year it was $85,000."

And how much did Raven pay for college? "Absolutely nothing," she said. "Not a dime."

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Raven Osborne teaching younger students.

 CBS NEWS

This fall, Raven will be back at 21st Century Charter.

Instead of paying for college, the school will be paying her salary, $38,000 a year to teach.



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Today's Topics:

   1. Not on the Palouse . . . NOT EVER ! (Tom Hansen)
   2. WSU students finally get their campus saunas,     nap pods and
      gender neutral locker room after months of delays (Moscow Cares)
   3. Re: WSU students finally get their campus saunas, nap pods
      and gender neutral locker room after months of delays (Darrell Keim)
   4. People Are Fleeing President Trump?s America To This Tiny
      Canadian Town | NBC News (Tom Hansen)
   5. ?She?s going to go far?: Work, parenthood and a language
      barrier won?t stop University of Idaho student from graduating
      (Moscow Cares)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 12:04:51 -0700
From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
To: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] Not on the Palouse . . . NOT EVER !
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEO2615R4Qc&sns=em

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares"
http://www.MoscowCares.com

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 13:00:14 -0700
From: Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com>
To: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] WSU students finally get their campus saunas,
        nap pods and gender neutral locker room after months of delays
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Courtesy of Pullman Radio at:

http://pullmanradio.com/wsu-students-finally-get-their-campus-saunas-nap-pods-and-gender-neutral-locker-room-after-months-of-delays/

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WSU students finally get their campus saunas, nap pods and gender neutral locker room after months of delays

     After months of delays Washington State University?s newest building finally opened completely today.  The old Bookie building has been remodeled into the Chinook Student Center.  Undergraduates approved a fee 3 years to pay off a 32 million dollar bond for the project.

     The Chinook was supposed to be open at the start of this semester in January.  The basement was finally opened Monday completing the project.  WSU is refunding 40 dollars to undergrads this semester since the building opened so late.  The facility features saunas, nap pods and a gender neutral locker room.  That portion of the student center opened today.  The only part of the building open to the general public is a small section of the first floor where a Freshens Fresh Food Studio is located.  The rest of the building is only available to the WSU community.  Faculty, staff, alumni along with graduate and professional students have to buy a membership to get in.

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After an afternoon of chillin' in the Chinook Student Center, they can . . . go to their home in Pullman . . . kick back in a soft, comfortable easy chair . . . and light up a bong.

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 13:17:39 -0700
From: Darrell Keim <keim153 at gmail.com>
To: Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com>
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] WSU students finally get their campus
        saunas, nap pods and gender neutral locker room after months of delays
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How does a gender neutral locker room work? Same as a gender neutral
bathroom, but with some lockers?  Or is this a group concept?

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com> wrote:

> Courtesy of *Pullman Radio* at:
>
> http://pullmanradio.com/wsu-students-finally-get-their-
> campus-saunas-nap-pods-and-gender-neutral-locker-room-
> after-months-of-delays/
>
> --------------------------------
>
> WSU students finally get their campus saunas, nap pods and gender neutral
> locker room after months of delays
>
>      After months of delays Washington State University?s newest building
> finally opened completely today.  The old Bookie building has been
> remodeled into the Chinook Student Center.  Undergraduates approved a fee 3
> years to pay off a 32 million dollar bond for the project.
>
>      The Chinook was supposed to be open at the start of this semester in
> January.  The basement was finally opened Monday completing the project.
> WSU is refunding 40 dollars to undergrads this semester since the building
> opened so late.  The facility features saunas, nap pods and a gender
> neutral locker room.  That portion of the student center opened today.  The
> only part of the building open to the general public is a small section of
> the first floor where a Freshens Fresh Food Studio is located.  The rest of
> the building is only available to the WSU community.  Faculty, staff,
> alumni along with graduate and professional students have to buy a
> membership to get in.
>
> --------------------------------
>
> After an afternoon of chillin' in the Chinook Student Center, they can . .
> . go to their home in Pullman . . . kick back in a soft, comfortable easy
> chair . . . and light up a bong.
>
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 07:57:38 -0700
From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
To: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] People Are Fleeing President Trump?s America To
        This Tiny Canadian Town | NBC News
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https://youtu.be/5TWoQZPAPGk

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 08:56:11 -0700
From: Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com>
To: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] ?She?s going to go far?: Work, parenthood and a
        language barrier won?t stop University of Idaho student from
        graduating
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Came a tribe from the north brave and bold . . .

Courtesy of yesterday's (May 1, 2017) Spokesman-Review.

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?She?s going to go far?: Work, parenthood and a language barrier won?t stop University of Idaho student from graduating

When Vetamunisa Lupfer started classes at the University of Idaho a little over four years ago, her written English was lacking. So she wrote essays in Otjiherero or Afrikaans, languages she learned growing up in Namibia, and then translated them, a few words at a time, onto a new document.

?It?s not easy at all,? she said of perfecting her English. ?Up to this day I can?t even order some meals. I just point at pictures.?

But such challenges haven?t stopped Lupfer from finishing school. She?ll graduate next month with a bachelor?s degree from UI?s College of Business and Economics. Her coursework has spanned not one but three majors: business economics, human resources and operations management.

Eric Stuen, Lupfer?s adviser, said her academic performance is impressive, especially for a ?nontraditional? student. On top of the language barrier, she?s raising a toddler son with autism. And at 35, she?s older than most of her peers.

?She?s sought out the opportunities that we had at our college and really made the most of them,? Stuen said. ?She?s going to go far.?

Lupfer is one of countless ?nontraditional? students at UI and other schools. The group is hard to define, but generally includes students outside the 18- to 24-year-old age group, those who work full-time and those with children.

As the American Association of State Colleges and Universities has noted, ?the stereotypical student is but a sliver of today?s college-going population.?

UI?s vice provost for strategic enrollment, Dean Kahler, said the school has orchestrated ?a deliberate push? to address the diverse challenges facing students. The school offers childcare, for example, and a range of mentoring and assistance programs. They help students learn everything from English to financial literacy to workplace etiquette.

The school has also stepped up recruiting at community colleges and other places in addition to high schools, Kahler said.

?Today?s student comes to a university with such a diverse set of things they want to learn about,? he said.

Lupfer was born and raised in Onderombapa, a cattle farming community in the arid desert of eastern Namibia.

In recent years, she said, the place has seen early stages of urban development, with more running water and solar electricity, more cellphones and cars. But when she lived there, the whole village was just nine rural homesteads.

?It was like living in nowhere,? she said, adding that the nearest grocery store was 70 miles away.

Lupfer had an American school teacher who inspired her to travel, so after several years working as a teacher herself, she boarded a plane to the United States. After a year in New Jersey and a brief stint in Baltimore, she arrived in Moscow, Idaho, in 2009 to work as a nursing assistant at Gritman Medical Center.

Three years later she was married, raising an infant and exhausted from the grisly details of her job at the hospital.

?I saw so many accidents and stuff that I had to take a break from nursing,? she said. ?I didn?t really want to do that ever again.?

So she got a different job and enrolled at UI. Between classes in Moscow, she assembled electronics at Schweitzer Engineering Labs in neighboring Pullman.

Lupfer became fascinated by the manufacturing process and the way employees are managed in a large and growing company, and picked an academic field to match her new interests. While she enjoys traveling home to visit family, she said she?s in awe of her opportunities in the United States.

?The education system here is totally different than Namibia?s,? she said. ?A high school student here will know so much more than a teacher back home.?

This year, her school projects involve working with Boeing to improve the company?s quality-control procedures and increasing labor efficiency at the steam plant that generates power for the UI campus. She lives in a small apartment with her son, Tonny, who has autism and doesn?t communicate at the level of most 5-year-olds.

She said she recently left her job at Schweitzer to spend more time for Tonny. Now she starts most days cleaning local health clinics at 6 a.m. On weekends she takes her son, who loves to swim, to an aquatic center in Clarkston.

?I have to have this part-time job so he can have his $20 swim in the pool,? she said with a motherly smirk.

Tonny goes to preschool in Moscow and sees a speech therapist and other specialists in Spokane, Lupfer said. She plans to move to Spokane after graduation and said she?s ready for the next challenge.

?I?m not looking for my dream job right away,? she said. But if she stumbles on the right opportunity, she said, ?I?ll take it.?

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Vetamunisa Lupfer, a student in the University of Idaho?s College of Business and Economics, poses for a photo at her apartment on Thursday, April 19, 2017, in Moscow, Idaho.



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Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

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