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Drexel partners with Jersey high school
Stephanie Takach
Issue date: 7/3/09 Section: News
Drexel University and Haddonfield Memorial High School announced a partnership that will provide additional academic resources for Haddonfield's students and faculty.
John DiNardo, vice provost for academic affairs, said Haddonfield initially approached Drexel to try to see how the University could help the high school in regards to incorporating online components in their own programs. They also discussed some possibility of providing an advanced curriculum for their students online or face-to-face in a classroom.
Drexel is looking to assist Haddonfield's faculty members in two areas.
The first is to mentor them on how to move some content online and provide online supportive courses.
"I think they have some interest in using some system similar to BB vista and learn from some of our people on how to move towards online supported courses," DiNardo said.
The second area is to take advantage of Drexel's summer programs. The University is looking to make students aware that programs exist for students in engineering and business. There is also a program, Research Experience for Teachers, in which faculty members are invited to gain experience in a research laboratory, DiNardo said.
"[There will be some] online courses but these would be online courses that we'd be already teaching, DiNardo said. "The plan would be that they could take a course as a visiting scholar, and also face to face."
The Visiting Scholars program gives high school sophomores, juniors and seniors an opportunity to take college level courses for free at Drexel while completing high school. DiNardo said the school needs to recommend a student for the program.
Courses will be offered at the 100 or 200 levels in language, science, mathematics and others, DiNardo said.
The program may expand in the future to other area high schools.
Certainly there's an openness to all school districts in the region, including Philadelphia because that's where we are," DiNardo said.
Although he could not comment on any talking going on, DiNardo said Drexel is interested in working with school districts all over Philadelphia.
For the students, future partnerships will give them a broad perspective about the college curriculum.
"It's an exciting program, we're learning a lot, and just being able to establish relationships will be a new experience for us, but also, and its an experience that will continue," DiNardo said. "We've had relationships in the past and currently and it allows us to be more aware and create a more seamless pipeline between high school and college."
The four people most involved with the partnership are John Bielec, vice president for Information Resources and Technology and CIO; Joan McDonald, senior vice president of Enrollment Management; Jan Biros, vice provost for Budget, Planning and Administration; and DiNardo.
This story has been corrected.
John DiNardo, vice provost for academic affairs, said Haddonfield initially approached Drexel to try to see how the University could help the high school in regards to incorporating online components in their own programs. They also discussed some possibility of providing an advanced curriculum for their students online or face-to-face in a classroom.
Drexel is looking to assist Haddonfield's faculty members in two areas.
The first is to mentor them on how to move some content online and provide online supportive courses.
"I think they have some interest in using some system similar to BB vista and learn from some of our people on how to move towards online supported courses," DiNardo said.
The second area is to take advantage of Drexel's summer programs. The University is looking to make students aware that programs exist for students in engineering and business. There is also a program, Research Experience for Teachers, in which faculty members are invited to gain experience in a research laboratory, DiNardo said.
"[There will be some] online courses but these would be online courses that we'd be already teaching, DiNardo said. "The plan would be that they could take a course as a visiting scholar, and also face to face."
The Visiting Scholars program gives high school sophomores, juniors and seniors an opportunity to take college level courses for free at Drexel while completing high school. DiNardo said the school needs to recommend a student for the program.
Courses will be offered at the 100 or 200 levels in language, science, mathematics and others, DiNardo said.
The program may expand in the future to other area high schools.
Certainly there's an openness to all school districts in the region, including Philadelphia because that's where we are," DiNardo said.
Although he could not comment on any talking going on, DiNardo said Drexel is interested in working with school districts all over Philadelphia.
For the students, future partnerships will give them a broad perspective about the college curriculum.
"It's an exciting program, we're learning a lot, and just being able to establish relationships will be a new experience for us, but also, and its an experience that will continue," DiNardo said. "We've had relationships in the past and currently and it allows us to be more aware and create a more seamless pipeline between high school and college."
The four people most involved with the partnership are John Bielec, vice president for Information Resources and Technology and CIO; Joan McDonald, senior vice president of Enrollment Management; Jan Biros, vice provost for Budget, Planning and Administration; and DiNardo.
This story has been corrected.
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