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The Power of Partnership: How Early College Creates Rich Contexts for Engaging Faculties (28 pp)
by Roberta S. Matthews and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Of the rich school-university partnerships that have become the hallmark of Woodrow Wilson Early Colleges, the Science, Technology, and Research (STAR) High School at Brooklyn College offers one of the best models. Created in 2003, STAR was one of the first Early College High Schools funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It graduated its first class in 2007 with an extraordinary 95% graduation rate. Much of the secret to STAR’s success lies in the model of collaboration described in this report by Roberta Matthews, under whose leadership as Provost of Brooklyn College STAR was created. Her analysis of the experience of creating and supporting these partnerships offers a valuable template for other institutions.
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Ensuring College Success: Scaffolding Experiences for Students and Faculty in an Early College School (26 pp)
by Anne Newton, Jobs for the Future and Kristen Vogt, Associate Director of Woodrow Wilson Early College Initiative
The partnership between Brooklyn College and Science, Technology and Research (STAR) Early College School demonstrates how students benefit when colleges and high schools work together. STAR and its partners carefully designed a Transition Plan which gradually introduces students to college-going experiences and the demands of college coursework, while providing a wide variety of supports tailored to individual needs. Each component of the plan was created through college and high school faculty collaboration, fostered by formal and informal organizational structures of the partnership. Ensuring College Success is a joint publication of Jobs for the Future and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.