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Partnership Name: Consortium for Pre-College Education in Greater Newark
Contact Information:
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Name: |
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Dr. Jesse Jackson |
| Program: |
Consortium for Pre-College Education in Greater Newark |
| Address: |
New Jersey Institute of Technology
University Heights
Newark NJ 07102-1982 |
| Phone: |
973-596-5762 |
| Fax: |
973-642-4195 |
| Email: |
JACKSONJ@Admin.NJIT.EDU |
Geographic Area Served: North Jersey
Purpose:
Pre-college program serving 400 7th-12th grade students, East Orange school district and Irvington school district. Three (3) institutions of higher education in Newark (Rutgers-Newark, NJIT, UMDNJ) jointly hold 20 academic year Saturday fun-day sessions and a five-week, five-day summer program on three campuses to prepare the participants to matriculate through middle and high school to college and through to college graduation.
Benefits:
- Interactivity between secondary and post-secondary education
- Pre-college education of urban children
- Cross-instructional benefit to faculties
- Possible college freshman prepared
- Overall educational benefit to communities
- Connection to higher ed institutions
- Access to facilities and faculties
- Access to upper level educational processes
- Interactivity with other school districts
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