Posted on August 9, 2017
For continued support of the Alumni Manager within the To and Through College Program aimed at getting their students into the right college, and giving them the supports that they need to then complete their degrees. Their Alumni Manager is tasked with continuing and strengthening a differentiated menu of supports for their students while they are in college to better ensure that they stay the course. Supports include a web-based text messaging system allowing them to segment their alumni so that their messages can be effectively and appropriately targeted, and College Crew, a college-level advisory program by which more vulnerable students come together weekly with the Alumni Manager to work on personal challenges and build skills. Outward Bound Schools has a network of 11 expeditionary learning schools throughout the five Boroughs which they operate in partnership with the NYC Department of Education.