College for the Underserved

In a 2014 article entitled The Good Society we wrote the following: "There should be an institutional basis for embedding achievement values in local primary and secondary schools. This could be achieved by establishing partnerships between public and private universities in each state and the primary and secondary schools that have weak performance records for their students. The purpose of these partnerships is to instill high achievement values in the student population as well as provide stronger curriculum and instructional resources to enable more students to be eligible for tuition awards for postsecondary education." The recent decisions by the President of Purdue University are two big steps in the right direction. The first was the creation of the Purdue Polytechnic High School in Indianapolis and the second was the acquisition of Kaplan University. While we question the process which took place without faculty input, those are the ways for universities to reach out to underrepresented and underserved students.