Students benefit from being Bulldogs, becoming Eagles
Published 2:48 pm Tuesday, June 28, 2022
- Stanly Community College's entrance greets visitors to the campus on College Drive in Albemarle.
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There are many benefits to learning and practicing life skills as a high school student. For example, being able to successfully balance a monthly budget may not seem important when a parent is managing the bills, but financial and other problems can occur when a student does not have the basic understanding of responsible finances prior to living on their own.
Helping students grasp a thorough understanding of life skills for “real life” is one of the benefits of the Bulldogs to Eagles Business program taught by Stanly Community College’s Lorie Narolewski. Each week, the Business Administration program head taught business courses at Albemarle High School (AHS) to juniors and seniors.
“Many of the students who enroll in the program may or may not be going to college,” says Narolewski, “but they want to learn the skills needed to live and work on their own. Despite the career path a student chooses, the program prepares them for a successful start after high school.”
AHS students were honored at a luncheon on the SCC campus as the first class to graduate from the Bulldogs toEagles Business program. From left, front row: Bladimi Lopez, Andrea Galicia-Martinez; second row: Rubiseilairlen Jaimes, Teagan Patterson (fall graduate), Brenda Popoca-Baza; back row: Z-Nayqwa Bruton, Sidney Smith, Jabahri Brooks, Kirstyn Campbell; not pictured: Mary Grace Krol, Danny Xiong. (Contributed)
Thanks to the program, 10 AHS students completed five courses to earn Business Administration Marketing Certificates from SCC in May.
Some of the subject matter taught in the business administration program included: College Student Success, Introduction to Business, Budgeting, Communication, Critical Thinking, Business Law, Marketing, and Building and Protecting Your Credit Score.
“Students feel more confident going into the workforce because of the life skills they obtain in the program,” says Narolewski. “I enjoy giving students a glimpse of what college or living on their own can be like. Every young person needs every advantage to start out on a solid footing and the Bulldogs to Eagles program does just that.”
These and other classes taught by SCC on the Albemarle High School campus help students explore what continuing their education past graduation could be like.
“Taking these classes in high school can show students they have what it takes to continue on their educational journey,” says Jeff Parsons, SCC chief academic officer and vice president of academic affairs. “These students proved to themselves they could do it and now have the confidence to attend SCC and even four-year colleges and universities.”
