The Early College Alliance (ECA), a collaboration between
Eastern Michigan University, the Washtenaw Intermediate
School District and four local school districts, has received
a $300,000 grant from the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation
(AAACF) Board of Trustees as part of Pfizer's $1 million
gift to the community.
"This money will be used to help leverage public and private
resources to provide more students with more post-secondary
opportunities," said David Dugger, coordinator of ECA.
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ECA FUNDING: The Early College Alliance,
a
collaboration between Eastern Michigan University
the Washtenaw Intermediate School District and
four
local school districts, has received a $300,000
grant
that will provide more high school students
with
post-secondary opportunities. The ECA currently
serves 400 students on EMU's campus. |
The ECA integrates high school and early college curriculum,
and provides personalized support to students in a way
that allows them to complete high school with considerable
college work finished and paid for.
The new funding will allow ECA to expand its program to
serve more students and to introduce a new curriculum strand
focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (the
STEM fields). This grant also will help support a restructuring
of Ypsilanti High School's curriculum to provide a successful
track for Ypsilanti students to enter the ECA.
The ECA currently serves 400 students, many from families
without a history of college completion, on Eastern Michigan's
campus. Ypsilanti, Lincoln, Milan and Whitmore Lake are
school districts that are partners in ECA.
The grant represents the final allocation of the $1 million
gift Pfizer entrusted to the AAACF in January 2008 to give
back to the Ann Arbor area community.
