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title: A Vision for Inclusion
description: "NEWS:DU: Stapleton graduate, now a college Senior, shares what she's learned since her first day on campus"
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# [A Vision for Inclusion](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/a-vision-for-inclusion)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 05/14/19

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](https://www.du.edu/cme/programs-services/student-success/eli.html) (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.'"

[Read the whole story here.](https://www.du.edu/ahss/news/story/student_jones.html)

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