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Talk Line: Jim Grot & Sarah Partington on open registration and Impact Program · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Good morning Sock Valley. You've joined the Waking crew here
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  Speaker 1: on FM ninety five one and AM fourteen sixty WIXN.
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  Speaker 1: It's now eight fifteen on your Thursday morning, and that
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  Speaker 1: means it's time for talk line and I'm joined in
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  Speaker 1: the booth today by our good friends from Sock Valley
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  Speaker 1: Community College. It's Jim Grot and Sarah Partington. Folks, how
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  Speaker 1: are you today?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Brandon. I'm doing very well.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for coming out with what maybe umbrellas or
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  Speaker 1: rain ponchos. Was it still pretty soaking out there?
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't right now, Yeah, it wasn't terrible. We kind
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  Speaker 2: of got a little break in the action, so okay,
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  Speaker 2: it was a decent walk in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm well, hopefully your walkout will be one. We're done
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  Speaker 1: here today. But one thing that you wanted to share
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  Speaker 1: and kind of start on is we've had a registration
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  Speaker 1: for summer and fall classes.
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  Speaker 2: The registration is open, sorry, gonna be open next Monday,
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  Speaker 2: April six. Registration opens for summer classes and also the
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  Speaker 2: fall semester, and so online registration opens up on on
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  Speaker 2: Monday April six, and then walk in registration, So if
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  Speaker 2: you come into the campus or make an appointment that
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff that opens up on Wednesday. So, and
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  Speaker 2: we're expecting an increase in students because this is our
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  Speaker 2: first round of all district impact students coming in next year,
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  Speaker 2: and so we're expecting a decent increase in the number
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  Speaker 2: of students, which means classes are going to fill up
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  Speaker 2: faster and that kind of thing. So it's important to
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  Speaker 2: if you're thinking about registering for classes, get in early
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  Speaker 2: so you can get the pick of the litter on
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  Speaker 2: those classes and that kind of thing. And then I
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  Speaker 2: also wanted to throw in there. I was actually I
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  Speaker 2: was doing pictures at the studio at the other day,
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  Speaker 2: and I think half of half of the people that
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  Speaker 2: were doing pictures were non traditional students, so students who
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  Speaker 2: are like twenty four and older. One of them was
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  Speaker 2: she was cute. She was just like, I'm actually going
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  Speaker 2: to be walking with some of my son's friends at
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  Speaker 2: commencement and that kind of stuff. And so she just
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  Speaker 2: thought she thought it was She's like, it's so awkward,
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  Speaker 2: but it's also so cool that she went back to
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  Speaker 2: school one of them. Another one was went back to
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  Speaker 2: school also is getting her a teaching degree and that
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff, so going to go into early childhood
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  Speaker 2: education and that kind of thing. And so, but about
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  Speaker 2: half of our students are non traditional students, so you're
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  Speaker 2: twenty four and older who come back and decide that
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  Speaker 2: they want to change in their career and that kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing. And so, so for your non traditional students
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  Speaker 2: out there, next week is the time you can start
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  Speaker 2: registering for classes. Don't wait till the very end. Some
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  Speaker 2: people will wait till the week before classes start to
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  Speaker 2: sign up. But you can start registering next week. So Monday,
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  Speaker 2: April six, online registration starts, and then April eighth is
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  Speaker 2: when walk in registration starts.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, get out there and sign up. I can
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  Speaker 1: testify to this gym. I was a non traditional SoC student.
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  Speaker 1: I had a similar story. My oldest son and I
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  Speaker 1: took Spanish together at.
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  Speaker 2: So oh no kidding.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the introductory class we had during the same semester,
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  Speaker 1: same time. We sat back next to each other and
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  Speaker 1: we waited to see how long it would take the
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  Speaker 1: instructor figure out. Because Clark is just such a common name,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, eh, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, yeah Clarks, right, that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right, it's never too old, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: I did, I changed my career and folks here I am.
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  Speaker 1: I was miserable before and now I get to deliver
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  Speaker 1: the news and all the tunes to help you. And
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  Speaker 1: sock is the best way to go about and do that.
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  Speaker 1: So sign up.
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  Speaker 2: It's awesome. And then also next week on April eighth,
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  Speaker 2: we have our job fair coming up. So the job
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  Speaker 2: fair is from ten o'clock to two thirty. We have
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  Speaker 2: over thirty employers looking for employees that will be there,
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  Speaker 2: so make sure you bring your resume and be ready
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  Speaker 2: to possibly interview on the spot. But Wednesday, April eighth,
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  Speaker 2: it's just in the middle of campus, so you can
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  Speaker 2: come in on either end of campus and it's just
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  Speaker 2: down our Center hallway. But job Fair April eighth, from
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  Speaker 2: ten o'clock to to thirty. Yeah, and then let's see
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  Speaker 2: what else. It's kind of a busy month. We have
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  Speaker 2: travel to Galena coming up and that is Saturday, April eleventh,
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  Speaker 2: so that's next weekend, and you can we're gonna excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: they are taking a charter bus up to Galina. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna go to Glina Cellar's Vineyard. You get in sampling
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  Speaker 2: of three different wines, and then they go downtown and
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  Speaker 2: go walking downtown and that kind of thing. So trip
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  Speaker 2: includes the wine flight, travel, snacks, transportation, that's a difficult
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  Speaker 2: word to say, this morning transportation. You do have to
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  Speaker 2: be twenty one and older to go to the wine cellar.
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  Speaker 2: But that's Saturday, April eighth, and that starts. You take
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  Speaker 2: off at nine o'clock in the morning and you don't
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  Speaker 2: get back till seven, So it's a it's a fun
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  Speaker 2: filled day. That's eighty nine dollars per person for that
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  Speaker 2: trip to Galina April eleventh.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, folks, sign up for that. Springs
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  Speaker 1: coming this is gonna be. That's really just kind of
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  Speaker 1: the perfect event to kind of kickoff.
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  Speaker 2: Scree yeah, welcome spring in. Yeah, good, enjoy some wine
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  Speaker 2: up in Galina. And then we've got one more trip
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  Speaker 2: coming up in April, and that is to The Great
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  Speaker 2: Gatsby and that's up in Chicago, and this is based
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  Speaker 2: on the classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. So a
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  Speaker 2: Tony Award winning musical to take viewers to an unforgettable
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  Speaker 2: journey of love, wealth, and tragedy. And that's Wednesday, April
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  Speaker 2: twenty ninth at the Cadillac Palace Theater in Chicago. It's
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  Speaker 2: one twenty five per person, but that includes your ticket
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  Speaker 2: to the show and also your transportation, and then you
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  Speaker 2: stop for lunch and dinner on the lunch for the
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  Speaker 2: way there and then dinner on the way back. So
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  Speaker 2: and then that's that's all I've got for announcements, and
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  Speaker 2: then we know we brought Sarah here to talk about
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  Speaker 2: the Impact registration.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we are super excited. Yesterday, April first, was
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  Speaker 3: the first day that we opened up registration. So that's
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  Speaker 3: for all incoming freshmen and in our district. So this
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  Speaker 3: Impact is an earned tuition program, So hopefully a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people have heard about it by now since we're
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  Speaker 3: getting ready to welcome our first cohort. But they have
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  Speaker 3: from April first to September first to get signed up
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  Speaker 3: and then they can start volunteering. So students volunteer twenty
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  Speaker 3: five hours each year that they're in high school, and
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  Speaker 3: then once they get to Sock they continue that volunteer time,
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  Speaker 3: but they're earning their tuition. So now's the time. It's
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  Speaker 3: super easy sign up. It's SVCC dot edu slash Impact
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  Speaker 3: and there'll be a big yellow button on that page,
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  Speaker 3: so it'll just sign yourself up and we'll get you started.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, this program has really blown up. It has.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you spoke about the wave of impact students
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  Speaker 1: really starting to see that come in and how many
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  Speaker 1: communities have you guys, like, fully almost fully funded. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's been sir, well, I'm not putting on this butt
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  Speaker 1: for an exact number, but it's been quite the growth
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 3: And we're both involved in a lot of community things,
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  Speaker 3: so it's really cool to hear community members say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: we had impact students that helped out with this, and
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  Speaker 3: it's just getting those students out there and kind of
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  Speaker 3: spreading their wings and maybe seeing if one of these
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  Speaker 3: volunteer opportunities might blossom into a career for them someday.
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  Speaker 3: So we did have a panel of about seven students
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  Speaker 3: and one of them did change her whole career path
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  Speaker 3: by volunteering at a daycare or somewhere at a school
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  Speaker 3: and she decided to switch to education as her major.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's that hands on experience in something and
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  Speaker 1: in the connection, right, I mean, the ear intuition part
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  Speaker 1: is already awesome. I mean that that hooks anybody, but
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  Speaker 1: I think some of that real value that people don't
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  Speaker 1: initially think of is these kids are out there, they're
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  Speaker 1: getting that first hand experience. They're getting to see what
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  Speaker 1: I really like this. You know, you get the idea,
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  Speaker 1: but does it translate? And then you make connections that
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  Speaker 1: could lead to a job right after you get out.
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  Speaker 1: And in some cases, some of these kids are already
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  Speaker 1: being approached to say hey, as soon as you're done
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  Speaker 1: with high school and your legal we want you over here.
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  Speaker 3: And on the flip side of it, it's saving our
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  Speaker 3: volunteer partners money because they're not having to pay someone
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  Speaker 3: to come, so they have those students.
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  Speaker 2: There to help.
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  Speaker 1: And in a time when everybody I used to talk
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  Speaker 1: to as a reporter for organizations would always say volunteerism
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  Speaker 1: had been getting lower and lower, you guys found a
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  Speaker 1: way to grow volunteerism locally while helping students get their
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  Speaker 1: college base.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've hit over one hundred thousand hours just a
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  Speaker 2: couple of months ago, So I'm not sure where that
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  Speaker 2: numbers at now, but one hundred thousand hours over the
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  Speaker 2: last five years, four and a half years, and so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just which has been fantastic. And I've been interviewing some
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  Speaker 2: of the students for a project that we're working on,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of them, I mean just say they
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  Speaker 2: actually love doing the volunteering. When they first started, they
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  Speaker 2: were nervous, they were shy because you're you know, you're
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  Speaker 2: you're young, you're thirteen, fourteen ish, and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: And I was talking to win student. She was just
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  Speaker 2: like when I was interviewing her, she was like, I
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  Speaker 2: never would have done this, she goes, But doing the
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  Speaker 2: Impact and doing the volunteering and working with adults and
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  Speaker 2: doing things sometimes that you're unfamiliar with and are uncomfortable with,
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  Speaker 2: it actually made her more comfortable to do these kind
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  Speaker 2: of just odd things like an interview and that kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuff. She's like, I never would have done this,
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  Speaker 2: she goes, But Impact has actually made me more yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and that kind of stuff in herself. And then I
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  Speaker 2: had another story or another interview that I did, because
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  Speaker 2: this is one thing that I think with some students
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  Speaker 2: that don't sign up for Impact, because they go, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go off to whatever university. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to go to socc like they already have in
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  Speaker 2: their mind that they're going to go somewhere else and
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  Speaker 2: then I just interviewed a student who was at another
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  Speaker 2: university and after the first semester, realizing what it was
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  Speaker 2: going to cost. They already kind of knew what it
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  Speaker 2: was going to cost to go there, but something went
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  Speaker 2: wrong with payments or whatever and loans, and then found
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  Speaker 2: out it was going to cost them more than double.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was something like four years was going
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  Speaker 2: to cost eighty thousand. It more than doubled to like
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty thousand to go there. And so
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  Speaker 2: they were just like, this is this is not worth
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  Speaker 2: They were getting a business degree and that kind of stuff. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you can you can get you all your gen ds
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  Speaker 2: out of the way at SOCK. Yes, And so after
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  Speaker 2: their first semester because you have to, you have to
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  Speaker 2: register for classes within a semester of graduating from high school. Correct.
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  Speaker 2: And so he just made that cut of coming back
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  Speaker 2: after his first semester and now we'll be tuition free
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  Speaker 2: for the next two years to get his associate's degree
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  Speaker 2: from SOCC but saving you know, depending on you know,
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  Speaker 2: there might be a change of plans because he was
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  Speaker 2: going to go to a private school, may go to
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  Speaker 2: a public university or what have you. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: imagine coming out of college with one hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars a debt. So this impact program is saving
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  Speaker 2: tens and tens of thousands of dollars. So so he
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  Speaker 2: was just he was just like, we are so thankful
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  Speaker 2: that we had this as a backup plan. And that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of my point is that you know, if you're
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  Speaker 2: kind of thinking about whether or not to do this,
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  Speaker 2: because it's like nope, not planning on going to stock,
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  Speaker 2: planning going somewhere else, just do it as a backup plan.
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  Speaker 2: It's twenty five hours a year that you have to volunteer,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what.
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  Speaker 3: We tell students, Like, worst case scenario is if senior
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  Speaker 3: year rolls around and you have another opportunity that sounds better.
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  Speaker 3: You have one hundred hours of volunteer time that looks amazing.
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  Speaker 2: On great on scholarship applications and yeah resume.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how many times do you hear kids coming,
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  Speaker 1: you know, out of college and saying I needed some
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  Speaker 1: kind of experience, you know that whole that that double
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  Speaker 1: end trap of like we want somebody with more experience,
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  Speaker 1: but how do you get in when you have none? Right,
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  Speaker 1: this already puts you there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, they have to do twenty five hours each year.
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  Speaker 3: We have tons of students that go above and beyond
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  Speaker 3: that twenty five hours because they just enjoy what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just keep doing it. I absolutely love it.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else you want to share? What we have a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: No, just make sure your register for classes coming up
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  Speaker 2: again next week class as registration opens and it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be it's going to be a fun year. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a fun and busy year, so which
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  Speaker 2: we're looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: So and if anyone has any questions or needs any
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  Speaker 1: more information on anything we talked about today, what's the
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  Speaker 1: best way to do that?
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  Speaker 3: If you've got questions about Impact, it's super easy. You
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  Speaker 3: can just call or email us at Impact at SBCC
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  Speaker 3: dot EEDU. But otherwise it's pretty it's a pretty easy problem.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, an easier process, simple process to get signed up.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that registration opened up yesterday, so get in
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  Speaker 2: there because you can start volunteering June first. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: sign up now. Registration closes for that September first, So
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  Speaker 2: if you're going into your freshman year, September first is
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  Speaker 2: when the registration closes. But why not sign up now
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  Speaker 2: and start volunteering June first to get those hours done
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  Speaker 2: over the summertime.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So done. Knock it out of the way. You
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  Speaker 1: don't got to worry about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Jim and Sarah, thank you so much for coming on
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  Speaker 1: the show, sharing this information and for all the fantastic
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  Speaker 1: work at SUCK. As a former SoC graduate and someone
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  Speaker 1: who has kids in the area, I love this, love
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  Speaker 1: how the program has been expanding along with the college
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  Speaker 1: and all the offerings there. Thank you guys for what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing for local education.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Brandon