After serving as CEO for the past 12 years, Jeff Nelson will be transitioning to serve as chair of the board and current Chief Program Officer Melissa Connelly will be OneGoal’s new CEO.
The degree divide.
A national injustice.
OneGoal is a coalition of teachers, students, school leaders and education advocates working to close the college degree divide and ensure all young people can achieve their postsecondary dreams.
Our Approach
Great teachers
lead our work.
OneGoal is uniquely led by excellent teachers (Program Directors) already working in high schools. We support them
with a trailblazing curriculum, training and coaching, technology, and access to our partner postsecondary institutions.
We prioritize
underserved students.
We match each Program Director with a cohort of 25-30 students (Fellows) whose talents and strengths are often overlooked and whose postsecondary education prospects are limited due to academic and socioeconomic barriers.
Our unique model is
proven to work.
Program Directors work with same group of Fellows from their junior year of high school through their first year of postsecondary education. Fellows explore their identities and aspirations, build academic skills, and learn to anticipate and overcome roadblocks to ensure they reach graduation.
The Result
81%
of OneGoal high school graduates
enroll in a postsecondary institution
86%
of those who enroll
persist one year later
Our Stories
OneGoal has started to roll out a new curriculum based on Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, which will better allow Fellows to develop their identities while building their postsecondary plans.
“I found trust in OneGoal. That trust allowed me to grow and expand on who I was. I used to get kicked out of my French class in high school. Just yesterday I was in France with 70 world leaders for the Paris Peace Forum.”
Robert Emmons
OneGoal Alumnus
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, class of 2017
What makes
us unique
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How does each year in our 3-year program differ from the other? Three of our Program Directors opened their classrooms to show you.
