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Website
Webmaster
Joe Willard
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6015
Georgetown Drive
Columbus, GA 31907
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Phone: |
706-565-2965 |
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Fax: |
706-569-3745 |
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Dean
Susan Willard
Guidance Director
Tawanda Rivers
Administrative Assistant
Tara Brown
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Early college high schools are small schools where a student can earn both a
high school diploma and two years of college credit towards a bachelor's degree.
Such schools have the potential to improve high school graduation rates and
better prepare students for family-supporting careers by
- Changing the structure of the high school years
- Compressing the number of years to earn a college degree
- Removing financial and other barriers to college
- Focusing on students and their individual needs so that they can make a
smooth transition into postsecondary education
The Early College Academy of Columbus, which is located on the Kendrick High
School campus, offers a new type of learning institution for underserved youth
by
- Providing the rigor, depth, and intensity of college-level work in high
school
- Inspiring average, underachieving, and well-prepared high school
students to work hard and stretch themselves intellectually
- Incorporating an incentive system rewarding performance with access to
college-level courses
- Eliminating the need for young people to select and apply to a
postsecondary institution during the high school senior year
- Saving money and time by integrating high school and college-level work
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