Initiatives

Goal 1

Prepare our most vulnerable students and graduates of 2020-2023 for security and success in the post-pandemic economy

  • Chancellor's Career Fellows Program Washington University in St. Louis

    The Chancellor’s Career Fellows Program is a comprehensive, fully funded career education experience for selected WashU first-and second-year students whose family income is less than $75,000,with a preference for students who are the first in their families to attend college.

    The goal of the program is to increase career access and future career success for under-resourced WashU students.

    This initiative will begin by providing structured opportunities to 50-75 students during the Summer of 2021 and will later expand to include a larger cohort of students as the program rolls out. The Chancellor's Career Fellows Program aims to broaden the pipeline of low-income and historically underrepresented students into fulfilling careers or graduate degree programs.

Goal 2

Support and partner with our communities and government in an inclusive recovery through and after COVID-19, focusing on displaced workers, adult learners, PK-12 systems, economic development, community health and COVID-19 support

  • University College Re-Imagined Washington University in St. Louis

    Washington University has used a community input and prototyping process to re-envision adult education as an independent school with a focus on St. Louis social mobility. This school will provide unique educational opportunities for adults to learn new job skills, embedded in experiential, critical thinking courses, focusing on the socially and economically disadvantaged as a primary student audience. Specific programs will be created in a collaborative spirit with regional institutions. Components of success include dramatically increasing the number of community members enrolled in adult learning, positive professional outcomes for alums, and more broadly, the reduction of economic inequality in the region.