New Partnership Agreement

From Forbes: The National Education Equity Lab, an education justice nonprofit, has enlisted more prestigious universities to offer college courses and supports to students in some of the nation’s poorest high schools. The new partners include Morehouse College and the University of California System. They join Princeton, Stanford, Georgetown, Cornell, Wesleyan University, Barnard College, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Spelman College, Brown University, Howard University, and Arizona State University, all of which were early providers in the Ed Equity network.

Founded in 2019 by Leslie Cornfeld, a former federal civil rights prosecutor and later an advisor to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and two U.S. Secretaries of Education, Ed Equity Lab has quickly become one of the nation’s leading models for preparing low-income and underrepresented minority students to enroll and succeed in college. It’s helping fill the college pipeline with talented students who might have otherwise never believed they could succeed at college. The Lab follows a simple plan, a first-ever national model: deliver and support college credit-bearing courses taught by faculty from a network of leading colleges and universities in teacher-led high school classrooms, at no cost to students.

Here’s how it works. School districts serving low-income students are invited to participate, and they offer the opportunity to principals in Title 1 high schools. Principals pick the high school teachers who assist the college faculty in offering the course, and they also select the students - typically about 25 per course. Many Ed Equity Lab high schools offer multiple courses – meaning students can graduate with a semester or more of transferable credits under their belts, resulting in substantial tuition savings...

Commenting on his university’s new partnership with the Ed Equity Lab, University of California president Michael V. Drake said, “The University of California is committed to expanding access to higher education for students of all backgrounds. We are proud to collaborate with the National Education Equity Lab to further that goal - and reach more students than ever before.”

Full story at https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2023/04/21/university-of-california-morehouse-join-other-top-schools-in-national-effort-to-close-college-opportunity-gap/.