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By Reva Gaur
For our latest installment of recommended links, we’re featuring stories on health & fitness, advocacy for after-school and child care programs, free performing arts programs this week citywide, and the financial constraints of many NYC students on graduation day.
“New Study Links Exercise to Higher Pay” (Forbes)
“Children Ask Bloomberg to Restore Their Funds” (Epoch Times)
“Arts Watch: Summer Kicks Off with Make Music NY” (The Lo-Down)
“Too Poor For Their Own Graduation” (NY Times SchoolBook)

Carl (far left) with students from a previous graduating class.
By Carl Foreman
None of the College Prep staff is old enough to have children entering college in the fall, even mathematically. Yet every year around this time we are treated with a slice of the bittersweet pie primarily reserved for the parents of these young adults we send off into the world and beyond our Teen Center’s doors.
Ten years ago this month, I was wrapping up my senior year of college: turning in my thesis, saying goodbye to good friends… and realizing that I probably should have started applying for jobs back in January.
I got lucky. Through a connection made the previous summer, a dream job fell into my lap. 2012’s newly minted college graduates might not be so lucky – a recently released study says that half of recent college graduates are either unemployed or underemployed. It’s tough, reading statistics like that, to wax poetic about the importance of a college education – and yet, that’s exactly what I’m about to do.
By Reva Gaur
Our amazing video interns, Andrea and Fixx, are at it again! In the second episode of their “Block to Block” series, they recap last month’s graduation ceremony for our College Prep Program. Our staff had some great advice to offer the graduates, who are all heading to college this fall! (p.s. Didn’t catch the first episode? Watch it here.)
By Reva Gaur
School’s out for the summer… but where are our College Prep graduates heading in the fall? Maybe to your alma mater? Check out this short video mashup and hear from the students themselves!
By Reva Gaur
Congrats to the class of 2011! It’s graduation season, and our College Prep Program just held their annual ceremony. Our graduates, many of whom are the first in the families to go to college, are off to schools like Swarthmore, Fordham, Skidmore, lots of great SUNY and CUNY schools, and more. What advice do you have to offer them as they head off to college? Let us know in the comments section!

