{"id":5860,"date":"2016-12-12T08:15:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T13:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=5860"},"modified":"2016-12-15T08:14:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T13:14:26","slug":"state-grant-supports-entrepreneurship-business-academy-students-pathway-college-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/state-grant-supports-entrepreneurship-business-academy-students-pathway-college-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"State grant supports Entrepreneurship and Business Academy students\u2019 pathway to college degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the Entrepreneurship and Business Academy at Kempsville High School will benefit from one of five Virginia Affordable Pathways Partnership Grants funded by the state\u2019s Fund for Excellence and Innovation and administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV).<\/p>\n<p>The competitive grants, announced by Governor Terry McAuliffe Dec.\u00a07, aim to improve transitions from high school to postsecondary education, reduce costs to students, increase college-completion rates and lead to a degree, certificate or workforce credential.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5861\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Photo-1-Students.jpg\" alt=\"photo-1-students\" width=\"2295\" height=\"2343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Photo-1-Students.jpg 2295w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Photo-1-Students-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Photo-1-Students-768x784.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Photo-1-Students-1003x1024.jpg 1003w, https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Photo-1-Students-400x408.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2295px) 100vw, 2295px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to a press release from McAuliffe\u2019s office, the $140,000 grant awarded to Old Dominion University (ODU), Kempsville High School and Tidwater Community College (TCC) \u201cwill offer students a path from the high school\u2019s Entrepreneurship and Business Academy, through enrollment in TCC\u2019s business and entrepreneurship program, to ODU\u2019s leadership major. It will use online and other resources rather than textbooks to reduce costs to students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The specific goals of the multi-institutional partnership,\u00a0noted in the grant application submitted by ODU, include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developing a specific pathway for a bachelor\u2019s degree with a leadership major that could potentially reduce tuition costs for students by 57 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Developing a specific pathway for a bachelor\u2019s degree with a leadership major that would allow the major to be completed without requiring students to purchase textbooks.<\/li>\n<li>Building on TCC\u2019s nationally-recognized model, ODU will develop the infrastructure needed to expand the delivery of textbook-free courses through open educational resources (OER).<\/li>\n<li>ODU will develop at least 12 courses in its leadership major as z-courses (or textbook free).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Entrepreneurship and Business Academy at Kempsville High School opened in September with its first class of ninth-graders and offers students three strands of study: Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Business Information Technology and Corporate Finance. In addition to dual enrollment credit opportunities, like the TCC courses available to academy students through the Affordable Pathways Partnership Grant, academy students will benefit from partnerships with the local, regional and national business community as well as from an internship experience their senior year of high school.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the Entrepreneurship and Business Academy is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbschools.com\/curriculum\/academyprog\/eb_acad.asp\">vbschools.com<\/a>. To learn more about the new Virginia Affordable Pathways Partnership Grants program or the additional 2016 recipients,\u00a0view this <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.virginia.gov\/newsroom\/newsarticle?articleId=18449\">news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the Entrepreneurship and Business Academy at Kempsville High School will benefit from one of five Virginia Affordable Pathways Partnership Grants funded by the state\u2019s Fund for Excellence and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-5860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-connections","tag-kempsville-high"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5862,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5860\/revisions\/5862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}