Our Why
First-generation college-bound students live-and learn- with this type of system.
What is a broken system?
Student U’s vision.
What is a Durham where all students succeed?
Student U empowers and equips these people to become the leaders that will transform our city
Who are first-generation college students in DPS, their families, and educators?
This percentage of students have graduated from high school.
What is 100%?
This organization is a community organization that focuses on uplifting entire communities.
Who is Student U?
These three reasons create barriers to success for first-generation college-bound students and affect entire communities, on both personal and institutional levels.
What are structural racism, intergenerational poverty, and other systemic injustices?
Student U’s new tagline.
What is:
Empowering Students. Building Leaders. Changing Communities.
The three main elements of Student U’s approach.
What are whole-families approach, sharing best practices, and student- and family-led advocacy?
This percentage of students have graduated from college.
What is 89%?
Student U believes that all people are worthy of experiences and opportunities that honor the equal value of their lives and enable them to do this.
What is reach their full potential?
Student U is committed to the never-ending work of using this lens in all of our work.
What is a racial equity lens?
Student U uses the power of these three things to build a just and equitable Durham.
What are education, advocacy, and leadership?
This type of approach to college access and success programming means that we consider how everything affects a student’s ability to show up fully and reach their potential.
What is a whole-families approach?
This Student U alumna is currently getting her master’s degree at Johns Hopkins University and teaching at Ida B Wells Middle School.
Who is Niadiquay Everette?
Student U believes that building an equitable Durham is a shared responsibility and that these people must participate.
Who are our entire community?
White students are these times as likely than their Black and Latinx peers to graduate from college.
What is 5 times?
Student U’s voice is described by these three adjectives.
What are bold, empowering, and hopeful?
Building a more just and equitable Durham requires that the voices of these people are centered in important policy-making decisions.
Who are students and their families?
These two Student U alumni are serving on our board.
Alyzia McAlmon and Francis DeLa Cruz?
Student U believes education needs to be transformed and has the power to be this.
What is transformative?
Estimated bachelor’s degree attainment rates are these times higher for those in the highest income quartile than for the lowest income quartile.
What is five times?
These four entities are represented in Student U’s new logo.
What are Durham (American Tobacco tower), Hayti Heritage Center, Duke University, NCCU (BN Duke auditorium)?
Student U recognizes our strengths as an innovation hub for best practices in education for first-generation college-bound students, and we make sure those insights are accessible to these people.
Who are DPS practitioners and key stakeholders?
These three Student U alumnae teachers and advocates won the Teacher Of The Year Award at there school in the 2018-2019 school year.
Who are Tracey Barrett, Ellen Holmes, and Alyssa Martinez?
Student U opened its doors in 2007 with the support of these 4 founding partners.
Who are University of North Carolina, North Carolina Central University, Duke University, and Durham Academy?