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Ground is broken on the expansion on Nov. 1.
QE A growing yet again
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Quality Education Academy
(QEA) held a groundbreaking
ceremony on Nov. 1 to mark the
beginning of construction of a
36,000 square-foot addition to
the QEA campus, which sits
near the corner of Carver School
Road and Lansing Drive.
Mayor Allen Joines and
Mayor Pro Tempore Vivian
Burke joined school leaders and
officials from New Bridge Bank,
which is financing the expan
sion, and Davie Construction
for the ceremony.
Burke gave very passionate
remarks about how blessed the
community is to have a long
standing relationship with
Carver Road Church of Christ
and QEA, which was bom from
a church initiative. She praised
the church and school for being
"so professional, so structured,
so well-organized."
The expansion will house
new classrooms, an auditorium,
cafeteria, office space and a
"Fighting Pharaohs" gymnasium
with a state-of-the-art theater
stage. The work is expected to
be completed by spring 2013.
This is the third expansion
for the charter school, which
began in 1992 when Minister
Cloys Cecil Sr. had a vision to
exceed the educational expecta
tions set by traditional public
schools. Cecil was on hand for
the ceremony and received a
rousing round of applause from
those on hand.
"I read that someone said this
was a factory," Cecil said, seem
ingly referencing criticism of the
school's successful athletics pro
gram. "Well it is. It is a factory
of excellence! We keep produc
ing excellence every year.
Excellence in the classroom.
Excellence on the basketball
court. A factory for excellence!"
Joines applauded QEA for
galvanizing the community and
lauded the school as "a strong
part of Winston-Salem's fabric."
Studentf perform at the groundbreaking ceremony.
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Beds
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tress. Sometimes she
noticed a "pins and nee
dles" feeling in her hand,
but didn't think anything
of it. After shaking her
hand for a while, the
numbness would go
away.
A few weeks later,
facing the fitted sheet
task without her grand
daughter to help her, the
woman tried for some
time to move the sheet
over the mattress without
success. When she moved
her hand from the sheet
her thumb dropped down,
limp. That's when she
called her doctor, Dr.
Mary F. Lyles.
On examination,
Lyles saw that her patient
had lost most of the abili
ty to perform simple
tasks such as tying a
shoelace or buttoning a
sleeve with her right
hand. Suspecting acute
carpel tunnel syndrome,
Lyles called on neurolo
gist Walker to perform
nerve conduction studies
and image the hand using
ultrasound. Few physi
cians have seen what
Walker saw in the study.
"High resolution color
flow Doppler showed a
rare persistent median
artery that had blood flow
in it in the forearm, but
not at the wrist where it
was next to a swollen,
injured, median nerve,"
Walker said. The patient
is among the five percent
of people who have per
sistent median artery, a
vessel that usually disap
pears after birth.
Shortly after her tests,
the patient underwent
surgery to relieve some of
the pressure on the nerve,
but her limp thumb per
sisted. The woman's sur
geon advised her to
strengthen the thumb by
going through the
motions of performing
her everyday activities.
Even if a patient can't do
them, trying the daily
tasks can help. Little by
little, the strategy
worked. At first she was
successful picking up a
paper clip. When she
could open and close a
chip clip, she knew she
was back to normal. It
had taken nearly a year
for the nerve in the wrist
to grow the new pathways
that allowed her thumb to
function.
College
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go home until when they get
registration for their kids.
That has been the passion
for all these 20 years in our
hearts, how can we provide
opportunities for people who
want training, they want the
education, but they do not have
a way of getting it?"
Their school was first
licensed and approved by the
North Carolina Community
College System as Mount Eagle
Institute in 2010 to offer two
certificate programs in the
health care field. After some
growth. Mount Eagle became a
college this summer and now
offers IS programs, including
ones for Certified Nursing
Assistant (CNA), phlebotomy
and massage therapy.
The college has already
graduated more than 8S0 stu
dents, who have earned certifi
cates to obtain jobs like EKG
technicians and pharmacy techs.
Edward, the college's opera
tions director, said Mount Eagle
has helped the unemployed and
underemployed meet the grow
ing demand for jobs in the
booming health care industry.
Shallua and Edward met in
college and have been married
for 15 years. Edward's father is
a Moravian minister who
trained in the United States and
had ftiends in the Triad. The
stories he related about the Twin
City drew the couple here.
Edward worked as a nurse at
local hospitals and nursing
homes. Shallua taught biology
at Forsyth Technical
Community College. He was
asked by Forsyth Tech President
Gary Green to start a biotech
nology program there. He
served as head of the program
from 2002 until 2009. Over
those years, the program grew
rapidly in size and recognition.
In 2010, President Barack
Obama paid a visit to the
Forsyth Tech biotechnology
program to highlight it for
preparing the workforce for the
high tech jobs of the future.
Shallua was teaching at
Appalachian State University 1
when he started Mount Eagle. .
He said big colleges aren't for ;
every student and wanted to
offer a smaller, more intimate
college that provides the type of j
flexibility, convenience, cus
tomization and individual atten
ion that larger institutions fail
jo give students.
"There are places that we
hink we can do better than big
ger universities," said Shallua.
'Every university and institu
ion has its mission, and we feel
ve have a unique mission to
each out to areas that might not
* in the mission of the existing
iniversities."
Mount Eagle is located in a
mite inside a business park on
[fanes Mill Road. It has IS
instructors, three classrooms
ind two labs. As a private col
lege, Mount Eagle doesn't
eceive money from the federal
government and may have
tuition higher than its public
:ounterparts. Financial assis
tance through the Mount Eagle
Foundation, loans and payment
plans are available to students.
Steve Baldwin said Mount
Eagle was a good fit for him.
rhe former truck driver had
been dreaming of becoming a
nurse for the last 15 years. He
bas now completed CNA I and
[I courses at the college.
"It was much more relaxed.
I liked the attention you would
get from the instructors, the
one-on-one attention. It was just
a good fit for me," said
Baldwin, who plans to take
more courses at Mount Eagle.
Baldwin now works as a
CNA at Mount Eagle Health, a
home care business, also owned
by Shallua and Edward, that
employs dozens of the college's
graduates. He said he enjoys the
work and looks forward to tak
ing his next step towards
becoming a nurse.
As a new, small, nontradi
tional college, Shallua said peo
ple sometimes question if
Mount Eagle is a real school,
but he said with time he hopes
the amount of quality graduates
it produces will answer that
question.
"The best way of letting
people know about us is doing
the job and doing it right." said
Shallua.
For more information about
Mount Eagle, visit
mounteag.com or call 336-776
0357.
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