Virtual College Partnerships

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Virtual College Partnerships

Assists interested universities in partnering with individual high schools, urban debate leagues, and school systems to provide additional support to emerging debate communities. Colleges can participate with ALOUD partners in national research consortiums, audiovisual projects, coaching hotlines, and recruiting efforts while partner staff and local education officials gain access to new in-kind resources.

College Partners Program FAQ

What resources could colleges with debate programs provide to local high schools and Urban Debate Leagues?

• Access to University Departments with Expertise (Public Relations, Marketing, Communications, Education, Urban Affairs, Teaching & Learning, Business Admin., Comp. Science/Web Design)
• Access to Specialty Programs (Grantwriting, Service Learning, Diversity Offices, Media Services)
• Access to Interns
• Connections to Fraternities and Sororities
• College student Mentors
• Research on urban debate
• Campus facilities (libraries, meeting spaces, classrooms)
• In-kind donations (equipment, furniture, computers, etc.)
• Production of Evidence
• Awards & Recognition
• Monetary Support
• National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) assistance
• College Bridge Program
• College Navigation Programming (financial aid literacy, campus visits to demystify process)
• Coordinating geographic debate outreach to non-UDL members
• Communicating about debate allies within

What resources could Urban Debate Leagues provide to colleges with debate programs?

• Marketing materials on the benefits of debate
• Students to attend their institutions for summer institutes & college enrollment
• Database systems for tracking student development
• Best Practice Guides for Outreach to their area high schools
• Communication systems to initiate public school system partnerships for high schools
• Models for initiating UDLs
• Models for initiating junior high school outreach and league development
• Debate Across the Curriculum Ideas
• Information on effective business models and strategies (fundraising, advisory boards, business management, public relations,
• Regional and national grant opportunities for K-12/college partnerships
• Ready pool of students for research projects in debate, urban education, urban affairs

How would colleges potentially benefit from associations with local high schools, school systems and/or Urban Debate Leagues?

• Prestige associated with national partnerships
• Achieving strategic plan goals associated with K-12 outreach
• Significant opportunities for positive press
• Course Development Earned Income Streams (Distance Learning Courses, certification programs in debate, textbooks, Online Debate Courses)
• Exciting extracurricular
• Professional Development Earned Income Streams (summer institutes, coaching manuals, re-certification programs for teachers in current specialties)
• Potential contributions to departmental or university fund development goals
• Reconnecting debate programs to departmental academic missions
• Increased Admission Interest (website hits, institute scholarships)
• Community Relations

How would the recipients benefit from the associations with colleges?

• Prestige associated with national partnerships
• Additional office assistance for understaffed sites
• Leverage with local university partners
• Assistance in gaining facility access and instructions
• New sources for volunteers and funding
• Tutoring, proofreading documents & proposals
• Role models for students
• Scholarships
• Potential for positive press
• Advantages that stem from the attachment of a university name

How can our school join the College Partners Program?

1. Online Partnership hosted at www.debateleaders.org with link exchanges with UDL sites
2. Select a program option (Virtual Partnership, Initial Partnership, Full Service Partnership)
3. Submit your college to the Expertise Locator
4. In that e-mail, describe your Ideal “Match” high school or middle school match
5. Information is tabulated & an appropriate match is identified including contact information, needs and schedules
6. Confirming extent of service availability
7. Agree on Memo of Understanding that outlines provision of services

Partnership Descriptions

Virtual Partnership Package

• Document Review and Expertise (grants, public relations & marketing materials, business plans, etc.)
• Web Design
• National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) assistance
• Curriculum Sharing
• Debate hotlines (evidence, arguments, mentoring, non-debate issues)
• Research Projects
• Coach-to-Coach Mentoring Program for HS teachers
• Student involvement (evidence production)
• Videoconferencing
• Identification of Debate Allies

Initial Partnership Package

• Student involvement (internships, college mentors, evidence production)
• Organizational connections (fraternities, sororities)
• Coach/director involvement (research projects, lesson planning)
• In-kind support (equip. furniture, computers, libraries, meeting spaces, classrooms)
• National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) assistance
• Coordinating geographic debate outreach to non-UDL members
• Assistance in gaining facility access and instructions
• Tutoring, proofreading documents & proposals
• Role models for students

Full Service Partnership Package

• Student involvement (internships, college mentors)
• Organizational connections (fraternities, sororities)
• Research projects
• In-kind support (equipment, furniture, computers, libraries, meeting spaces, classrooms)
• Monthly instruction in locating and producing evidence for students/teachers
• National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) assistance
• Coordinating geographic debate outreach to non-UDL members
• Assistance in gaining facility access and instructions
• Tutoring, proofreading documents & proposals
• Scholarship assistance

Micro-Partnerships —Colleges interested in handling individual referrals from schools, students or coaches that are located in areas with urban debate sites.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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