How to Leverage a University's In-Kind Resources to Create College Pathways for Black Youth From Marginalized Communities

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  In Roundtable Session: Initiating, Building, and Sustaining Diverse Partnerships

Abstract

This paper presents five types of capital that can be leveraged from universities as in-kind resources to create college pathways for Black youth from marginalized communities. Findings are based on the planning and implementation of three out-of-school time (OST) educational partnership programs alternatively based within the community, the public school, and on campus. A preliminary document review and analysis of the in-kind resources leveraged from the university during a five-year period found the following types of capital: social, material, intellectual, financial, and human. Findings reveal granular examples of what, where, and how to leverage in-kind campus resources to launch and sustain educational youth programming and the early renderings of a model for institutionalizing community engagement.

Author

• M. Meghan Raisch, Temple University