Higher Education Coalition
Colleges and universities engaging college students in evidence-based P-12 student support roles as tutors, mentors, success coaches, post-secondary transition coaches, and wraparound support coordinators in their local communities.
The Higher Education Coalition is a group of institutions working to expand their efforts to recruit, train, and place more college students in P-12 high impact student support roles. This is being done through various pathways to service, including Federal Work-Study community service jobs or other paid positions, community-engaged learning or service learning courses, fieldwork, internships, career-connected learning opportunities, and more.
Connect with Us
The Partnership supports coalition members by:
- Facilitating collaboration between campus-based programs, offices, and departments working to recruit, train, and supervise college students in P-12 student support roles.
- Supporting colleges and universities to expand off-campus partnerships with school districts and youth-serving nonprofits.
- Hosting events to uplift promising practices, address implementation challenges, share timely resources, and facilitate collaboration across the coalition (annual summit, monthly working group meetings, quarterly learning community calls, webinars, and more).
- Creating implementation guidance and toolkits focused on strategies for success.
- Providing one-to-one technical assistance to higher education leaders and practitioners, and their partners, to identify support needs and explore solutions.
Join Our Community
- Join the Higher Education Coalition: Revised higher education coalition sign-on form
- Attend a working group or learning community meeting
- Connect with our team for support
Free Mentoring Training Modules
These modules are designed to support college students serving as mentors for K-12 students, and to support supervisors of college mentors in implementing effective mentoring and ensuring that mentors gain career-connected experiences while providing crucial support to youth.
Leveraging Partnerships between Higher Education & P-12 Systems to Support Students Through Federal Work-Study Roles
The PSS Higher Education Coalition provides multiple mechanisms of support to IHEs and communities striving towards meeting this goal. This guide outlines initial steps and considerations for IHEs moving from commitment to action, from joining the PSS Higher Education Coalition to placing college students in PSS-aligned community service roles in P-12 schools and out-of-school time programs.
High-Impact Tutoring: Out-of-School Time Playbook
The Playbook aims to support OST providers and networks that support OST providers (e.g., afterschool networks, national affiliates, state service commissions) that are interested in expanding or beginning to offer high-impact tutoring programs. While OST staff members are the primary audience, state education officials, school district staff, and school administrators can leverage many of the resources in this Playbook.
Toolkit: Meeting the Needs of P-12 Students Through District & Nonprofit Federal Work-Study Partnerships with Higher Education Institutions
This toolkit outlines key steps for nonprofits, schools, and districts to take when considering and developing Federal Work-Study partnerships with higher education institutions to place college students in evidence-based student support roles in P-12 schools and out-of-school-time programs.
Coalition Members Include:
- Arizona State University
- Central Connecticut State University
- Community College of Philadelphia
- CUNY, Borough of Manhattan Community College
- CUNY, Brooklyn College
- CUNY, College of Staten Island
- CUNY, Hunter College
- CUNY, Lehman College
- CUNY, Queens College
- CUNY, Queensborough Community College
- Dillard University
- Eastern Connecticut State University
- George Washington University
- Grand Valley State University
- Howard University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Long Beach City College
- Longwood University
- Montgomery College
- New York University
- Princeton University
- Purdue University Global
- Rhodes State College
- Salisbury University
- Southern Connecticut State University
- SUNY, University at Albany
- SUNY, Binghamton University
- SUNY, Buffalo State University
- SUNY, Canton
- SUNY, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
- SUNY, Cortland
- SUNY, Morrisville
- SUNY, Old Westbury
- SUNY, Polytechnic Institute
- SUNY, Oneonta
- SUNY, Onondaga Community College
- SUNY, Rockland Community College
- SUNY, Tompkins Cortland Community College
- SUNY, Upstate Medical University
- Texas A&M University, Central Texas
- Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
- Texas A&M University, Kingsville
- University of Memphis
- University of Michigan
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Virginia
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Virginia Tech
- Western Connecticut State University
- Widener University
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