Partnership Development
Overview
A major part of what The P-12 Project does is to build partnerships between the university and Ohio public schools, especially those serving students from underrepresented populations. The P-12 Project’s relationships with public school educators, particularly those in administrative leadership, allow us to create successful partnerships among schools, faculty members, colleges, and support units.
The P-12 Project’s capacity as a central initiative is innovative and perceived by educators as a significant statement of the university’s intentions toward Ohio public education. This unusual university-wide structure has been important to our success in embedding initiatives across the university. This complements and supports Ohio State’s overall approach to outreach: a pattern of behavior and expectation within and across the academic and support units of the university.
Our partnership development work includes
- documenting and disseminating information about Ohio State’s involvement in schools
- initiating and incubating projects closely aligned with development of school-university partnerships and/or college aspirations in children and young people
- supporting university units in developing effective university-school partnerships
- serving as a gateway for individuals and entities interested in school-university partnerships
- providing assistance and advice in implementing, evaluating, and sustaining partnership efforts
Documentation
Annually, the P-12 Project compiles the Ohio State University School Partnerships Summary, a publication describing the university’s involvement with schools. See the Resources page.
Ohio State faculty and staff: Add your programs to this publication by completing the online form.
Partnership Descriptions
Harambee Christian School-Ohio State Partnership
As part of an ongoing partnership coordinated by the P-12 Project, students and chaperones from Harambee Christian School in Columbus visited the Ohio State campus in Fall and Spring quarters. Stories and photos-->
Baseball Day
Each year, Baseball Day brings more than 3,000 sixth-grade students and staff from the Columbus City Schools to campus for an educational pep rally followed by a Buckeye baseball game. Stories and photos-->
Project KEY (Keep Engaging Youth)
On May 20, 2008, approximately 50 middle school students from Columbus City Schools visited Ohio State through Project KEY. The visit was designed to promote college aspiration for the students. The day began with a tour of Ohio Stadium, led by Larry Romanoff and Jeff Bordner. Seeing the lockers of their favorite players and walking on the field were some highlights of the tour for the students. Lunch in the Huntington Club Varsity O room was followed by a tour of the RPAC facilities, coordinated by Rob Jech and led by Ashley Spittle and Whitney Schoenfeld. The day concluded with hands-on physics experiments involving the camera obscura, led by Dr. Bruce Patton and his student assistants. Project KEY is a truancy intervention program involving BREAD (Building Responsibility, Equality And Dignity); Franklin County Juvenile Court; Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health board; Franklin County Children Services; and Columbus City Schools.
Johnson Park Middle School
In the 2005-06 school year, Ohio State embarked on a university-wide partnership with Johnson Park Middle School (JPMS) in the Columbus City Schools. Stories and photos-->
Partnership Model
Outreach Sufficiency: Model Partnership Self-Assessment
The P-12 Project is developing a model of university-community partnerships that describes the conditions that would be sufficient to support three types of partnerships. The following resources are part of this model:
Powerpoint presentation made at the Outreach Scholarship Conference, October 2008 (PDF, 53 KB)
Partnerships Best Practices Literature Review (PDF, 283 KB)
Needs Self-Assessment Toolkit (PDF, 346 KB)
