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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.”
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...
“I thought, why not send a posse, a team of kids, to college to back each other up?” she said.
Since 1989 the Posse Foundation has formed groups of diverse students to undergo pre-college training and go on to top schools where they can support each other.