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Jehuda Reinharz, president of Brandeis University—one of 28 university partners in Posse and where Bial went as an undergrad—said Bial has “created an organization that has the potential to really change American higher education...
Michael L. Ainslie, chair of the Posse Foundation, agreed, calling Bial “one of the most visionary people I’ve ever known...she has really changed the way college admissions look at kids from inner cities...
Former University President Derek C. Bok, who worked with Bial while she was a graduate student, noticed her ability to find students in inner cities and “somehow be able to see that they would be able to survive and do well...
...Bial, who received her MA in 1996 and an EdD in 2004 from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, is one of three 2007 fellows to have graced the campus...
Bial’s creativity was born of frustration while working in public schools in New York City, where she would see her students go off to college only to drop out six months later. A former student told Bial that he would have stayed in college if his posse were there with...