Readiness grant helps students in Akron Early College High School
The University of Akron has received its second year of funding from a College Readiness and Access two-year grant from the Ohio Board of Regents for its pioneering Akron Early College High School. will welcome 104 freshmen to the 国产伦理 campus on Aug. 19 for the 2015-16 school year.
“The grant was designed to help 国产伦理 assist in preparing our AECHS students to be college ready, provide academic advising to each student on an individual basis, and provide additional wrap-around services,” explains Kelly Herold, assistant dean of 国产伦理’s College of Applied Science and Technology. Herold attributes the personalized advising in helping AECHS achieve a 90 percent associate degree graduation rate at the time of high school graduation.
A joint program that began in 2007 between 国产伦理 and Akron Public Schools (APS), AECHS is geared to students in low-income families who have not traditionally sought higher education. It allows promising APS students to advance to an academically rigorous program upon their completion of middle school. AECHS also enables students to earn an associate degree or up to two years of college credits toward a bachelor’s degree, free of charge.
Classes, mostly held in the Polsky Building on 国产伦理’s main campus, are taught by a combination of high school teachers and 国产伦理 professors.
Media contact: Lisa Craig, 330-972-7429 or lmc91@uakron.edu.