Joanna Schneider '13
Student Director forBig Brother, Big Sister
Major: Sociology modified with Psychology; Minor in Chemistry
Other Campus Involvements: DOC; General Manager of Big Green Bus
Fun fact: She got involved in Big Brother, Big Sister in high school, over 7 years ago!
Every summer, more than 300 Dartmouth sophomores volunteer with the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth (SEAD) program, sponsored by the Tucker Foundation. Founded in 2001, SEAD brings promising students from under-resourced high schools to campus and provides educational opportunities during their summer vacation. ...
Dartmouth Now, August 2012
The Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program will conclude its 13th summer on campus on Saturday, supporting 26 high school students from under-resourced backgrounds across the East Coast on their path toward attending college. ...
The Dartmouth, July 2012
The SEAD Program has concluded a year-long strategic planning process begun in celebration of its 10th anniversary in 2010. Key programmatic strengths have been identified, and significant changes implemented – changes that will allow SEAD to more effectively expand its students' conception of what is possible in their lives. Read the full press release.
The Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program invited program alumni, former volunteers and staff members, and friends to sit in on activities and special events in celebration of SEAD’s 10th anniversary on Saturday. Throughout its 10 years, SEAD — which provides college preparatory mentoring for high school students from under-resourced school districts across the country — has facilitated the collegiate aspirations of 180 students, which has required the involvement of 2,782 Dartmouth sophomores, according to Jay Davis ’90, director of the program since its inception...
Mark Wilson ’09 has experienced firsthand the impact of the 10-year-old Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth program, which helps prepare under-resourced high school students for college. The Philadelphia native was in the second graduating class of SEAD’s scholars in 2004...
Whatever It Takes, a new documentary to air March 30 on PBS, chronicles the hardships and triumphs of the first year of the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics (BCSM). PBS recently released a new website that promotes the film...
"One of the things that's so great about this program is that it's opened their eyes to going to college," says Carley Markovitz '10, who volunteered this summer as a mentor to a rising high school senior in the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth (SEAD) program...
As in years past, legions of Dartmouth sophomores will volunteer this summer for the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth (SEAD) program, which brings about 30 students from under-resourced high schools to Dartmouth for several weeks each summer for college preparation courses and activities.
Stuart Lord, Virginia Rice Kelsey '61S Dean of the Tucker Foundation, congratulates Lee Smith on his graduation from the Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth (SEAD) III program on July 10…
The SEAD program has selected its partner high schools for the next three years. Thirty 2006-2008 SEAD Scholars will come from Stevens High School in Claremont, N.H., Noonan Business Academy in Dorchester, Mass., the Bronx Center for Mathematics and Science in New York, Spartanburg High School in Spartanburg, S.C., and El Cerrito High School, in El Cerrito, Calif…
SEAD will reach a milestone this fall when two of its alumni, Damaris Walker and Mark Wilson, both from Philadelphia, become students again - this time as members of Dartmouth's class of 2009…
In a July 15 ceremony the SEAD program graduated its first class of 24 high school students, all of whom had completed three consecutive summers of leadership training, community service and college preparation…
In the summer of 2001, a new program called SEAD brought ninth graders from urban high schools in Boston and Philadelphia and from rural Canaan, N.H., to spend a week at Dartmouth learning skills in leadership, scholarship and community service. In addition to a new group of ninth graders who completed participation in the program this summer, SEAD II - an extension of SEAD - brought most of last year's participants back to campus for another week…
