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The vision
The School/University Partnership Program (S/UP) mission is to enhance
opportunities for students, parents, teachers, and school administrators to
commit themselves to educational equity, access, and excellence by forming a
college- and university-going culture in their schools and communities. We will
establish and sustain resources, and expand upon them through research and
evaluation, to support equity and access to a college education through a
well-integrated UC Berkeley Outreach Team.
The context
S/UP recognizes and respects the long-term work done by numerous campus outreach
and educational programs--such as the Subject Matter Projects, the Lawrence Hall
of Science, student-centered programs, student initiatives, and departmental
projects--that have enriched education throughout the Bay Area and beyond from
elementary to middle and high schools to community college.
S/UP's aim is to help ensure these programs complement and inform one another.
To this end, S/UP works to strengthen collaboration, leverage resources, and
avoid duplication among existing programs. S/UP encourages campus outreach
programs to augment or redirect their resources to the Partner Schools in order
to contribute to this cohesive campus outreach effort.
The long-term goal
UC Berkeley's outreach effort will make a measurable difference in student
achievement, teacher professional development, and college preparation and
awareness with our Partner Schools through the following activities:
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Develop, implement, and maintain an internal and external coordination
process that reduces duplication of efforts, leverages resources (both
financial and human), and carries out a coherent outreach vision.
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Develop strategic interventions to raise student achievement with our
Partner Schools as measured by student performance at all grade levels and
an increased number of UC-eligible, transfer-ready and Berkeley-competitive
underrepresented minority students, and establish student performance
benchmarks (e.g., the number of students who complete college preparatory
algebra by the 9th grade, the number of students reading at grade level in
elementary grades).
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Disseminate information, (research and best practices) that engages Partner
School teachers, families, and communities to enhance student achievement
and access to higher education.
S/UP will
pursue the following six-part strategy to achieve these goals:
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Concentrate our work in Partner Schools in order to establish effective and
replicable models; define selection criteria, assess individual school site
needs, develop individual strategic plans, and establish a contractual
relationship with each Partner.
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Implement site-and campus-based problem solving, information sharing, and
organizing using the work of a cohesive "UC Berkeley Team" at each school
site.
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Engage the UC Berkeley campus community in outreach implementation through
comprehensive communication, intellectual and administrative incentives for
involvement, and matching faculty and UC Berkeley student interests and
projects with school-site Berkeley Team efforts.
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Establish a clear pathway from Partner High Schools to Community College to
UC Berkeley by promoting early identification of students who may be
community college-bound and also interested in UC and developing vertical
partnerships that foster coordination between faculty, staff, and students
in Partner middle schools, high schools, community colleges, and UC.
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Provide incentives (e.g., by way of scholarships) and support (by way of
synchronicity between outreach and admissions and transition) to students
participating in our Partner Schools' outreach efforts to attend and succeed
at Berkeley; support teachers' participating in the outreach effort.
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Ensure accountability and evaluation of S/UP programs in the schools:
aggregated and disaggregated student data will be collected, maintained, and
analyzed in order to strengthen coordination efforts, provide information to
students and their families, and track student progress toward Berkeley
outreach goals.
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