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In fact, President Barack Obama recently said in an interview in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “One of this year’s MacArthur awardees—the ‘genius’ awards—is an innovator named Deborah Bial. She proposed a model to identify promising students from disadvantaged urban backgrounds using an alternative set of qualities as predictors of success in college. …The students that are selected form a ‘Posse’ and are provided with extra supports, and end up graduating from selective colleges with a very high success rate.”

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Pepperdine Signs On and Hamilton Expands

Posted September 15, 2009 Posse Press

Pepperdine University has become Posse’s newest partner institution. In addition, longtime partner Hamilton College, already paired with Posse Boston, has expanded its partnership to become the third partner school for newly launched Posse Miami. Read More

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Mount Holyoke, Penn, UCLA Join Posse, Bucknell Expands Partnership

Posted August 07, 2009 Posse Press

Mount Holyoke and The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) have partnered with Posse to recruit students from Miami. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and existing partner Bucknell University have also signed on with the Los Angeles chapter. Read More

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Miami Becomes Posse’s Seventh Site

Posted July 30, 2009 Posse Press

The Posse Foundation has opened its seventh site in the city of Miami, Florida, the fourth largest school district in the country. With over 350,000 students that make up a richly diverse public school system and community, Miami is an ideal home for Posse’s newest chapter. Read More

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First Science Posse Excels at Brandeis University

Posted May 06, 2009 Posse Press

Ten Scholars from New York headed to Brandeis University in Massachusetts last fall as members of the first Science Posse. Read More

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430 Students in Six Cities Win $43 Million in Scholarships

Posted January 16, 2009 Posse Press

This year, from a pool of over 9,000 nominees, 430 new Posse Scholars in six cities around the country were awarded $43 million in full-tuition leadership scholarships from Posse’s elite partner colleges and universities. Read More

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UC Berkeley Partners with Posse

Posted December 15, 2008 Posse Press

University of California, Berkeley—the country’s highest-ranked public university according to U.S. News & World Report—has joined Posse’s growing roster of partner colleges and universities. Partnered with Los Angeles, Berkeley will welcome its first Posse at the start of the 2009 academic year. Read More

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Bill Clinton Taps Posse for Global Initiative

Posted December 09, 2008 Posse Press

At the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting—a gathering of a diverse community of heads of state and nonprofit, business and religious leaders from around the world—Posse President and Founder Deborah Bial weighed in on the state of education in the United States. Read More

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Posse Grants Partner Colleges Access to Hundreds of Pre-Screened Students

Posted December 09, 2008 Posse Press

This fall, The Posse Foundation launched Posse Access, a virtual database designed to give each of our partner colleges and universities exclusive access to hundreds of unselected Posse nominees to consider for regular admission. Read More

Annual Report

2008 Posse Foundation Annual Report

Posted July 13, 2009 Download Annual Report [PDF]

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CNN Segment on Posse

Posted May 27, 2009 Posse Press

CNN Newsroom’s special segment on Posse. Read More

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Annual Posse Gala 2010

Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers
Cocktails 6:30 p.m.
Dinner 7:30 p.m.

23rd Street and West Side Highway
New York City

Each year, the Posse Gala honors individuals and organizations that have made an extraordinary difference in the field of education or have been incredible role models for young people.

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