Students from the School District of Philadelphia\u2019s Frankford High School visited the Millersville campus on Nov. 18 as part of a pilot program recently launched by Pennsylvania\u2019s State System of Higher Education.<\/p>\n
A collaboration with three college access organizations (Heights Scholars, the Philadelphia Education Fund and the Philadelphia College Prep Roundtable), the program allows high school students in Philadelphia to visit seven state-owned universities by removing transportation and distance barriers.<\/p>\n
During their visit, students listened to an admissions presentation, took a campus tour and ate lunch in the dining hall.<\/p>\n
\u201cCampus visits play a critical role in helping every student make informed decisions about their future,\u201d said PASSHE Chancellor Dr. Christopher Fiorentino. \u201cThis partnership will help students learn about their college options and whether a campus is the right fit for them. Even if a student ultimately chooses to attend a different institution, the experience of visiting a college campus is an important and valuable part of their journey.\u201d<\/p>\n
The PASSHE universities participating in the first-year pilot are Cheyney University, Commonwealth University\u2013Bloomsburg, East Stroudsburg University, Kutztown University, Millersville University, Shippensburg University\u00a0and West Chester University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students from the School District of Philadelphia\u2019s Frankford High School visited the Millersville campus on Nov. 18 as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5232,25884,69,25885,25886,71,70],"class_list":["post-43451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-admissions","tag-heights-scholars","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-college-prep-roundtable","tag-philadelphia-education-fund","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}