Critical to the success of the Posse Program is a strong Posse-University relationship. The University Program works to ensure the retention of Posse Scholars and to increase the impact of the Scholars and the Program on the campus. Each university works with Posse to adapt the Posse Program to its campus. Posse staff members visit each university every semester to hold meetings with Posse Scholars and to speak with a university liaison designated by the university. Posse staff also visits an on-campus mentor chosen jointly by Posse staff and the university. The mentor meets with Posse Scholars as a team each week and with individual Scholars every two weeks during their first two years. The mentor is often a graduate student, faculty member, or staff person at the university. Each spring, Posse hosts a weekend-long PossePlus retreat with members from the larger student body with the goal of discussing an important campus issue selected by Posse Scholars. Posses encourage greater interaction between a university's administration and student body.
The Posse partner colleges and universities are selective institutions committed to making their student bodies more diverse and more welcoming to students from all backgrounds. Posse’s current partner universities are:
Babson College, Babson Park, Massachusetts
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
Centre College, Danville, Kentucky
Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California
Colby College, Waterville, Maine
The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio
Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut
Denison University, Granville, Ohio
DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Hamilton College, Clinton, New York
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Pomona College, Claremont, California
Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Union College, Schenectady, New York
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
Each Posse partner school recruits students from one, two or three of Posse’s six sites across the country.
To learn more about our university partners, 
