{"id":512,"date":"2017-12-21T15:27:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T20:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=512"},"modified":"2017-12-21T15:27:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T20:27:15","slug":"rachael-adeloye-college-of-staten-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/rachael-adeloye-college-of-staten-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachael Adeloye, College of Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I am a sophomore and currently a Liberal Arts major but I plan to become a police officer after I graduate.\u00a0 I\u2019ve worked with the police for the last two years during the summer and it\u2019s been a real eye opener for me because I barely see any black female police officers there, and that\u2019s something I\u2019d like to change.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, my plans suffered a setback this year.\u00a0 My GPA is too low to receive financial aid this semester, including the Excelsior Scholarship, but past semesters I did receive aid.\u00a0 \u00a0Without the aid my family and I have been struggling to find a way to pay for school out of pocket. \u00a0We now are living paycheck to paycheck, and even though there are a lot of things we would like to do, due to lack of funds we can no longer do them.<\/p>\n

As a person who was not born in this country, I feel like the system is not set up in a way that enables me to succeed.\u00a0 For example, I\u2019m doing poorly in my English 151 class and my professor tells me I don\u2019t know how to write to an American standard, but then he doesn\u2019t have the time to teach me how to correct it.\u00a0 A fully funded CUNY would mean that professors would be able to spend more time with each student, more student services would be available to help students like me improve skills like writing, and I could commit to being a full-time student without burdening myself or my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a sophomore and currently a Liberal Arts major but I plan to become a police officer after I graduate.\u00a0 I\u2019ve worked with the police for the last two years during the summer and it\u2019s been a real eye opener for me because I barely see any black female police officers there, and that\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,69,57],"tags":[99,104,138,15],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assembly-district-61","category-senate-district-23","category-college-of-staten-island","tag-excelsior-scholarship","tag-moe","tag-support-services","tag-tap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}