{"id":3595,"date":"2013-10-31T15:24:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T19:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2022-03-24T11:28:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:28:31","slug":"posse-at-k-turns-four-nationally-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/posse-at-k-turns-four-nationally-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Posse at K Turns Four; Nationally, 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College graduated its first group of Posse students in June 2013, its four-year orange-and-black anniversary in a national program that, in November, celebrates its silver anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>K was the first Michigan school to partner with the Posse Foundation (with the organization\u2019s Los Angeles chapter). The program finds students with academic and leadership potential who might otherwise be overlooked by traditional admissions metrics, gives them several months of training, and sends them off to elite undergraduate institutions in groups of 10 to 12 other students from the same city. The program also provides support for the students once they are on campus. Seeing K\u2019s first 10 Posse graduates and their parents\u2014and their tears\u2014at K\u2019s 2013 commencement, says <strong>Jon Stryker \u201982<\/strong>, was very moving. \u201cIt\u2019s not often you can give a gift that changes a life.\u201d Stryker made a gift to K to support the first five years of the program. Posse at K will persist beyond those five years, and support for the program is a focus of K\u2019s fundraising effort, &#8220;<a title=\"The Campaign for Kalamazoo College\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/giving\/campaign\/\">The Campaign for Kalamazoo College<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In late October, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article about the Posse Program\u2019s 25th anniversary (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/A-Quarter-Century-of-Posses\/142577\/\">A Quarter-Century of \u2019\u2019Posses\u2019\u2019 Underscores the Power of the Cohort<\/a>,&#8221; by Libby Sander). The article quotes Kalamazoo College President <strong>Eileen B. Wilson-Oyelaran<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College graduated its first group of Posse students in June 2013, its four-year orange-and-black anniversary in a national program that, in November, celebrates its silver anniversary. 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Posse at K will persist beyond those five years, and support for the program is a focus of K\u2019s fundraising effort, &#8220;<a title=\"The Campaign for Kalamazoo College\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/giving\/campaign\/\">The Campaign for Kalamazoo College<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In late October, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article about the Posse Program\u2019s 25th anniversary (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/A-Quarter-Century-of-Posses\/142577\/\">A Quarter-Century of \u2019\u2019Posses\u2019\u2019 Underscores the Power of the Cohort<\/a>,&#8221; by Libby Sander). The article quotes Kalamazoo College President <strong>Eileen B. 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