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• Posse-tive Leadership
  Diversity in Action, Fall, 2023

Deborah Bial, featured on the cover of Diversity in Action magazine’s fall 2023 issue, speaks about the importance of diversity in higher education and the value of Posse’s mission.

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• ‘Hamilton’ Creator Partners With Posse Foundation to Mentor Arts Students
  The Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2021

Lin-Manuel Miranda says his goal is to guide diverse undergraduates into creative fields.
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• College admissions scandal highlights the disadvantages students face
  Today Show, March 17, 2019

NBC’s Harry Smith with this week’s Sunday Spotlight.
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• Posse program helps students stay in college
  ABC Nightline, September 1, 2017

The national average for college graduation rates is 53%, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The Posse Foundation scholarship recipients’ rate is 90%. Meet the remarkable students.
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• What It’s Like To Go From War To a Liberal Arts College
  Newsweek, May 29, 2017

Through the nonprofit Posse Foundation, Fernando Braga and his fellow veterans received scholarships that supplemented federal education funding. The hope was that the veterans would find attending college together more manageable than going on their own.
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• Diversity In The Workplace Starts With Diversity In Higher Education
  Forbes, March 30, 2016

We must believe that admitting and graduating diverse student bodies from our best colleges and universities is critically important for the nation as a whole.
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• When veterans enroll at elite schools, they’re not just students
  PBS NewsHour, March 15, 2016

Today, a college degree is widely considered a prerequisite for career success — but military veterans, often from low-income backgrounds, tend to lack the financial resources to pursue higher education. The nonprofit Posse Foundation aims to alter this dynamic, sending veterans to elite schools that otherwise would have been off-limits.
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• Posse Chicago allows overlooked college-bound students to dream big
  Chicago Tribune, November 6, 2015

Anthony Halmon, now a junior at Cornell University, became one of the first students through Posse Chicago to attend an Ivy League school. Posse Chicago identifies 120 public high school students often overlooked by traditional college selection processes to attend one of 12 partner universities outside Illinois on full scholarships.
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• Global Impact Award to improve veterans’ higher education
  Google Blog, November 13, 2013

Today, we’re granting a $3.2 million Global Impact Award to the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, Student Veterans of America, The Posse Foundation and Veterans of Foreign Wars to support data analysis of U.S. veterans’ higher education.
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• How Obama spent his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize
  Los Angeles Times, March 11, 2010

$125,000 to the Posse Foundation: The Posse Foundation is a national non-profit organization that identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential who may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes.
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• Alum Awarded MacArthur Fellowship
  Harvard Graduate School of Education, September 28, 2007

Deborah Bial, Ed.M’97, Ed.D’04, was named a MacArthur Fellow this week. The prestigious award, which honors recipients for their past work and anticipates their future successes, includes a $500,000 unrestricted grant to support recipients’ future endeavors.
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• In America; The ‘A’ Teams
  The New York Times, May 7, 1998

For those who might wonder how a couple of black kids from New York found themselves running the student government at an elite, overwhelmingly white, Southern school, the answers are to be found in a little-known but phenomenal organization called The Posse Foundation.
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