Sabrina Kay, Chancellor of Fremont College, was recently featured in the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School Gazette. Dr. Kay holds a doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. The article, excerpted below, details how Sabrina set out to reform higher education with some of the ideas she learned in graduate school at UPenn.
[Sabrina Kay] had been thinking about the performance gap between America’s K-12 education system, which is lambasted every time US kids finish 20 places behind the Finns on an international test, and its universities, which remain the envy of the world.
“What happens between 18 and 19 for these students?” as she somewhat facetiously puts it. “Do they get smarter overnight—in one year? Or do we drop a lot of our students on the street?” She was pretty sure it was the street.
Too many young adults were falling through the crack between four-year universities and community colleges. Read More
