Girard College, Vice President of Student Experience in Pennsylvania

Priority Deadline: April 2, 2024

ORGANIZATION 

Girard College is a full-scholarship boarding school that fosters intellectual curiosity, social development, and emotional growth in academically focused students from underserved communities. We ensure every student the opportunity and the means to achieve excellence and preparation for advanced education through purposeful academic and residential programs.

More than 20,000 students have passed through the gates of Girard College since its founding, all of whom have been beneficiaries of fully-funded scholarships that today are valued at approximately $70,000 a year.  Girard’s intentional racial segregation was successfully challenged and overturned in 1968.  Due to the work of the legendary local attorney Cecil B. Moore, the College became the focal point of Philadelphia’s civil rights movement in the 1960s. Girard College’s desegregation led to other schools and city-wide agencies in...