TESTIMONY
Testimony by Sharon Brown on transfer students and education issues
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3 min
Sharon Brown, a member of the public, provides testimony on various education-related topics, focusing primarily on the challenges faced by transfer students and the need for better information about scholarships and funding. She also touches on controversial topics such as prayer in schools and the Israel-Palestine situation.
- Discusses personal experiences as a transfer student at multiple institutions, including Marymount Manhattan College
- Emphasizes the need for better guidance on scholarship and funding options for students
- Advocates for the return of prayer and religious education in schools, specifically mentioning Judaism and Christianity
Sharon Brown
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Hello.
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I'm Sharon Brown.
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Hello, Committee Council and Eric Denowitz.
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Higher education.
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Congratulations on Israel getting back the hostages, the 4 hostages.
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Okay.
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This is transfer students and how to help them.
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So the Kony Higher Education, Sony, and all of that, Oh, Connie.
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I went to Marymount Manhattan College on a Leadership Scholarship, and I've been to different colleges, Medgar ever.
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I went to business technical school, technology school, and I did a lot of different things.
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One thing that I found to be an issue going to different schools, Mega Evers, Mary Mount, the 2 technology schools and business schools is that the way they transfer credits doesn't work out properly so they don't have a credit for credit transfer.
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So if you get a a 100 credits in one school, and then you go to the next school and try to get in there, you can't take all of your credits with you.
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So when you're trying to get a degree, you won't be able to carry over all your credits.
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You're it's like you have to start again from scratch.
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So I think they need to do something to allow all of your credits that you accumulated from every school to work towards your degree, or that's gonna be a problem for people wanting to be transferred students, and they might leave and not go to another school.
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Just leave the coating system altogether because of the fact that they want to have their credits count.
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Because once you go to another school and you transfer there, they don't take all the credits.
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So what do you do with those credits?
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They're just hanging in a balance.
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I guess you can go back to school and try to fulfill something else.
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But how can we find a way to make those credits all count.
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So they might take 50 credits, then you have a 100 credits.
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And when you try to get a degree at another school, you have to do 50 more credits and you have just 50 credits from, let's say, Marymount, I'll have 50 credits there that don't count for anything.
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And have to take the same classes over and over again at the new school.
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So that's something that transfer students are going to face.
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I was in a leadership scholarship program for political science major and law.
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What I found is the they don't really tell you how to go about funding everything in your scholarship situation.
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You can do a full ride scholarship.
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You can do partial scholarship.
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I think they should make it more known about the funding that there's other grants and things out there, you can have more than one scholarship at at the same time.
Jen Gaboury
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Thank you.
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Great.
Eric Dinowitz
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You just finish up your last thought, please.
Jen Gaboury
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I appreciate it.
Eric Dinowitz
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Thank
Sharon Brown
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you.
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And I also think that for transfer students or any student, we need to bring prayer back in school, bibles, Judithism and Christianity, and antisemitism needs to get out.
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And a lot of students that are coming from Liberal Arts schools who dealt with the situations that's happening with Palestine and Israel in the schools, they may be leaving schools and they're gonna have to be transfer students and deal with this situation.
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They need an atmosphere that's conducive to this country.
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We are Judeo Christian, and we need Judithism, and Christianity in our schools.
Eric Dinowitz
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Thank you so much for your testimony.