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support their students, such as providing them with an appropriate place to study and responding to their concerns about school. “Some of it is just having the families


become comfortable with higher educa- tion,” Mooney says. “We’re a university. We’re a whole bunch of folks who are highly educated, and they’re turning their child over to us with the assumption that we have their best interests at heart, to a place ... they’re not always very comfort- able with, to a place they don’t necessarily believe they belong.” The program works to make scholars’


parents feel they do belong at JMU and are welcome to participate in campus life. The Valley Scholars’ oldest cohort


is in the 10th grade. So far, 104 of the 109 students who have become Valley Scholars are still in the program. Two moved out of the area. One decided he wanted to do something besides college. Catching students on the cusp of high school is practically a last chance to get them aimed at higher education. “Would earlier be better? Abso- lutely,” Mooney says. “Is it logistically


One of the Valley Scholars, Karleigh Painter, says the program has given her confi dence.


possible? Probably not. “The end of seventh grade and into


the eighth grade, you have a developmen- tal window there where you can change the expectations and the pathway and have a much better shot at moving the student where you want to go.” A lot of financial aid money is


wasted, Mooney says, because students come to college unprepared for the experience. JMU is trying to get more students prepared for college, but Valley Scholars is aiming higher than that. “We’re preparing them for success,“


Mooney says, “not just in college. We’re preparing them for success in life.”


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