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Spectrum News | Marist-Â鶹 partnership allows Â鶹 to earn college credits
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Spectrum News recently visited some of our high school classes at Â鶹 Main Campus to learn about the NECSD Marist Early College High School (ECHS) program. Â鶹 senior, MIchelle Jiang and Â鶹 alumnus Jared Kerin were interviewed for the story. The ECHS program is a unique pathway to college, working in partnership with Marist’s to equip Â鶹 with a Regents diploma and up to 26 college credits toward a college degree. Building on the success of the first four years, the program has recently been renewed for another five years through a grant from the New York State Department of Education.
Â鶹’s ECHS program engages a new cohort of 30 high school Â鶹 each year to complete a sequence of Marist college-level courses during their four years of high school. Courses in the sequence are taught by Marist approved Â鶹 teachers during the academic calendar year at Â鶹 and instructed by Marist instructors from the School of Computer Science and Mathematics during the summer at Marist College. The initiative includes three-week long summer computer science courses at Marist, along with enrichment activities with exposure to Marist campus life, the program, and a day at IBM in Poughkeepsie, to provide a college experience, mentoring and career exploration on site.
For more than 50 years, Marist College has worked with the Â鶹 Enlarged City School District to expand access to higher education through its historic Upward Bound Program, and in recent years the Â鶹 Armory Unity Center (NAUC). Since 2014, Marist has partnered with NAUC to invest in an education pipeline toward higher education, which includes direct support of computer science programming in local youth through the donation of computer equipment and staff and student volunteerism. Among the many Â鶹 enrolled in the ECHS program are eleven NAUC alumni, many of whom worked on Armory computers donated by Marist College.
Students in 8th grade can apply for the NECSD Marist ECHS program at the time of high school selection in the spring.
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