Collaboration for student achievement

A collaborative program is described where the local schools, the community, and a state university work together to provide a health/life sciences enrichment program to at-risk students. Th... See More

A collaborative program is described where the local schools, the community, and a state university work together to provide a health/life sciences enrichment program to at-risk students. The article details what factors they found led to the success of the program and how they improved and maintained student and community interest. I found the website for the program, which is still going strong and has expanded to other counties at http://www.wv-hsta.org/ A wonderful model for setting up any collaborative program with at-risk populations.

A Model for Collaboration

This article describes collaboration between a Virginia University and a Heath Science Academy to help at risk students to enter college and work toward careers in health related fields. Al... See More

This article describes collaboration between a Virginia University and a Heath Science Academy to help at risk students to enter college and work toward careers in health related fields. Although this article is at least ten years old, this article can serve as a foundation to generating ideas to form other collaborations between universities, high schools and the community.