Even before her first day of classes, Makia Jones learned lessons from DU she will never forget.
As part of the University's Excelling Leaders Institute (ELI), Jones had come to campus a week early with 30 fellow first-year students to learn about academic preparation, leadership development, social identity and campus networking.
"That was the first time I had even thought about how DU was going to be wildly different from the past that I had had before," said Jones, who grew up in Denver and attended the Denver School of Science and Technology in the Stapleton neighborhood. "And [I was] able to say, 'OK, here's a bunch of other people who also don't know what's going on.'"
