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Summer Pre-College: Creative Writing

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	- Failed at: ${navbarId}  [in template "86161#86202#287243" at line 85, column 6]
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1<#include "${templatesPath}/NAVIGATION-MACRO-FTL" /> 
2 
3<#if !entries?has_content> 
4    <#if themeDisplay.isSignedIn()> 
5        <div class="alert alert-info"> 
6            <@liferay.language key="there-are-no-menu-items-to-display" /> 
7        </div> 
8    </#if> 
9<#else> 
10    <#assign 
11        portletDisplay = themeDisplay.getPortletDisplay() 
12 
13        navbarId = "navbar_" + portletDisplay.getId() 
14    /> 
15 
16    <div id="${navbarId}" class="mt-3"> 
17        <div class="accordion" id="${navbarId}-top-accordion"> 
18            <div class="accordion navbar-site" id="${navbarId}-accordion"> 
19                <header id="${navbarId}-header" class="d-block d-md-none text-right" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#${navbarId}-top-collapse" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="${navbarId}-top-collapse">Section Menu <i class="menu-icon ml-2"></i><hr/></header> 
20                <div id="${navbarId}-top-collapse" class="collapse d-md-block pl-0 ml-0" aria-labelledby="${navbarId}-header" data-parent="#${navbarId}-top-accordion"> 
21                    <#assign navItems = entries /> 
22 
23                    <#list navItems as navItem> 
24                        <#assign showChildrenNavItems = (displayDepth != 1) && navItem.hasBrowsableChildren() /> 
25 
26                        <#if navItem.isBrowsable() || showChildrenNavItems> 
27                            <#assign 
28                                nav_item_css_class = "" 
29                                nav_item_href_link = "" 
30                            /> 
31 
32                            <#if navItem.isChildSelected() || navItem.isSelected()> 
33                                <#assign nav_item_css_class = "active" /> 
34                            </#if> 
35 
36                            <#if navItem.isBrowsable()> 
37                                <#assign nav_item_href_link = "href='${navItem.getURL()}' ${navItem.getTarget()}" /> 
38                            </#if> 
39 
40                            <div class="card collapse-card shadow-none border-0 mb-0"> 
41                                <#if showChildrenNavItems> 
42                                    <#assign toggle_text> 
43                                        <@liferay.language key="toggle" /> 
44                                    </#assign> 
45                                </#if> 
46                                <#if showChildrenNavItems> 
47                                    <div class="collapse-header card-header mb-0 border-0" id="${navbarId}-card-header-${navItem?index}"> 
48                                        <button class="${nav_item_css_class} btn btn-link collapse-btn d-inline-flex justify-content-between align-items-center w-100" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#${navbarId}-collapse-${navItem?index}" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="${navbarId}-collapse-${navItem?index}"> 
49                                            <span class="collapse-header-text mb-0 text-left mr-2">${navItem.getName()}</span> 
50                                            <span class="collapse-header-chevron"></span> 
51                                            <span class='sr-only'>${toggle_text}</span> 
52                                        </button> 
53                                    </div> 
54                                    <div class="collapse" id="${navbarId}-collapse-${navItem?index}" aria-lablledby="${navbarId}-card-header-${navItem?index}" data-parent="#${navbarId}-accordion"> 
55                                        <div class="card-body p-0"> 
56                                            <@buildChildrenNavItems 
57                                                displayDepth=displayDepth 
58                                                navItem=navItem 
59                                            /> 
60                                        </div> 
61                                    </div> 
62                                </#if> 
63                                 
64                            </div> 
65                        </#if> 
66                    </#list> 
67                </div> 
68            </div> 
69        </div> 
70    </div> 
71 
72    <@liferay_aui.script use="liferay-navigation-interaction"> 
73        var navigation = A.one('#${navbarId}'); 
74 
75        Liferay.Data.NAV_INTERACTION_LIST_SELECTOR = '.navbar-site'; 
76        Liferay.Data.NAV_LIST_SELECTOR = '.navbar-site'; 
77 
78        if (navigation) { 
79            navigation.plug(Liferay.NavigationInteraction); 
80        } 
81    </@> 
82</#if> 
83 
84<style> 
85    #${navbarId} .collapse-card { 
86        border-radius: 0; 
87    } 
88 
89    #${navbarId} .collapse-header { 
90        background-color: #ffffff; 
91        border-radius: 0; 
92        padding: 0; 
93    } 
94 
95    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:active, 
96    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:focus, 
97    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:focus-within, 
98    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:target, 
99    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:hover, 
100    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:focus-visible { 
101        background-color: #b31b1b; 
102    } 
103 
104    #${navbarId} .collapse-header-text { 
105        font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; 
106        font-style: normal; 
107        font-weight: 600; 
108        color: #333333; 
109    } 
110 
111    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:active .collapse-header-text, 
112    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:focus .collapse-header-text, 
113    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:focus-within .collapse-header-text, 
114    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:target .collapse-header-text, 
115    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:hover .collapse-header-text, 
116    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:focus-visible .collapse-header-text { 
117        color: #ffffff; 
118    } 
119 
120    #${navbarId} .collapse-btn:active, 
121    #${navbarId} .collapse-btn:focus, 
122    #${navbarId} .collapse-btn:focus-within, 
123    #${navbarId} .collapse-btn:target, 
124    #${navbarId} .collapse-btn:hover, 
125    #${navbarId} .collapse-btn:focus-visible { 
126        box-shadow: none; 
127        text-decoration: none; 
128    } 
129 
130    #${navbarId} .collapse-header-chevron::before { 
131        font-family: 'fontawesome-alloy'; 
132        color: #333333; 
133    } 
134 
135    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:active .collapse-header-chevron::before, 
136    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:focus .collapse-header-chevron::before, 
137    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:focus-within .collapse-header-chevron::before, 
138    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:target .collapse-header-chevron::before, 
139    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:hover .collapse-header-chevron::before, 
140    #${navbarId} .collapse-header:focus-visible .collapse-header-chevron::before { 
141        color: #ffffff; 
142    } 
143 
144    #${navbarId} .collapse-btn[aria-expanded="true"] > .collapse-header-chevron::before { 
145        font-family: FontAwesome; 
146			  content: "\f078"; 
147        color: #ffffff; 
148    } 
149 
150    #${navbarId} .collapse-btn[aria-expanded="false"] > .collapse-header-chevron::before { 
151        font-family: FontAwesome; 
152        content: "\f077"; 
153    } 
154 
155    #${navbarId} .collapse-btn[aria-expanded="true"] { 
156        background-color: #b31b1b; 
157    } 
158 
159    #${navbarId} .collapse-btn[aria-expanded="true"] > .collapse-header-text { 
160        color: #ffffff; 
161    } 
162 
163    #${navbarId} .dropdown-item.active { 
164        background-color: #b31b1b; 
165        color: #ffffff; 
166        text-decoration: none; 
167    } 
168 
169    #${navbarId} .dropdown-item { 
170        background-color: #ffffff; 
171        color: #333333; 
172        font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; 
173        font-style: normal; 
174        font-weight: 600; 
175        padding-top: 6px; 
176        padding-bottom: 6px; 
177    } 
178 
179    #${navbarId} .dropdown-item:active, 
180    #${navbarId} .dropdown-item:focus, 
181    #${navbarId} .dropdown-item:focus-within, 
182    #${navbarId} .dropdown-item:target, 
183    #${navbarId} .dropdown-item:hover, 
184    #${navbarId} .dropdown-item:focus-visible { 
185        background-color: #b31b1b; 
186        color: #ffffff; 
187    } 
188 
189    #${navbarId} .card-body > li { 
190        display: block; 
191    } 
192 
193    #${navbarId} header { 
194        font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; 
195        font-style: normal; 
196        font-weight: 600; 
197    } 
198 
199    #${navbarId} .menu-icon { 
200        font-family: "fontawesome-alloy"; 
201        speak: none; 
202        font-style: normal; 
203        font-weight: normal; 
204        font-variant: normal; 
205        text-transform: none; 
206        line-height: 1; 
207        -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 
208    } 
209     
210    #${navbarId} header[aria-expanded="false"] .menu-icon:before { 
211			  font-family: 'FontAwesome'; 
212        content: "\f0c9"; 
213    } 
214     
215    #${navbarId} header[aria-expanded="true"] .menu-icon:before { 
216			  font-family: 'FontAwesome'; 
217        content: "\f00d"; 
218    } 
219</style> 

Message from Creative Writing Director

Welcome to the Marist Summer Pre-College Creative Writing Institute! I am looking forward to working with you and hope you are eager to share your creativity with us. This course will introduce you to the college-level creative writing classroom. The stories, essays, and poems you will read will be used as models from which to spring into and progress your own writing.  Regardless of your background or abilities, our classroom is a place of constructive instruction and encouragement. I want each student to feel comfortable and confident in exploring their ideas and challenging themselves as they work towards building their creative skills. The course is composed of writing studios, field trips, workshops, and craft talks with professional writers.  
I am excited to meet you and look forward to our two-week long creative conversation! Our program will take place on campus, and students will participate in inspiring exercises, discuss published works, and share their own writing in workshops with peers and professors, gaining a real sense of a writer’s creative community. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. 

Warm regards, 

Lisa R. Neilson, M.A., Director
Lecturer, English & Writing Department
Assistant Director of the Honors Program

About Professor Lisa R. Neilson

Professor Lisa R. Neilson was born and raised in the Hudson Valley. Before joining the English and Writing Department faculty at Marist, Professor Neilson showcased her writing talents as a sportswriter for the Hudson Valley's Daily Freeman for seven years, where her work appeared in well over 400 publications. She frequently presents her research on baseball and various aspects of the game at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. She teaches Writing for College, Introduction to Literature, the First Year Seminar, Nonfiction Writing Workshop, as well as other literature and writing courses. She is an avid baseball fan and enjoys watching and writing about what she considers to be the greatest game ever invented.

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