During my second week at Urban Assembly I was ecstatic with all of the data I managed to collect. Now I dub my third week " the lull of data entry." Since approximately half of the surveys that I have administered to the students were in paper version, due to the lack of accessible computers, I have spent most of the week entering the data into our database. I know this sounds like a complaint (and it is a little bit) but it has actually have afforded me the opportunity to do an eyeball analysis. It is very exciting and encouraging to see how many of the these students are planing on continuing their education at such reputable Universities such as New York University, Morehouse, Lehman and ....wait for it....Cornell University. This leads me to my Critical Incident. Upon discovering that a senior from the New York Harbor School was attending Cornell University next fall I was able to contact her and offer to help her in her acclimating to 'our' University. Low income students are most vulnerable to dropping out during their first year of higher education. If I can help one young adult to avoid this vulnerability, then it makes the 50 hours of data entry SO WORTH IT!
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I was interested to read that the New York Harbor School is connected to Urban Assembly. I am also working with their students because educators from NYHS helped lead last year's CUCE-NYC program on Governors Island. We're probably doing evaluations with some of the same seniors!
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