Office for Foundation Scholars

The Office for Foundation Scholars facilitates cohort scholar programs, and supports ConnecTU, a six-week on-campus experience that takes place over the summer before students' first year of college.

In 1989, Debra Biel established the POSSE Foundation, which recruits students from 10 areas including, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Tulane has been a POSSE partner since 2009 when the first cohort of POSSE students arrived on campus from Los Angeles. In 2012 Tulane welcomed its first POSSE New Orleans cohort to campus. Today, Tulane University welcomes 2 cohorts of POSSE Scholars, one from New Orleans and one from Los Angeles each academic year. Tulane’s POSSE scholars have achieved a number accolades during their time at Tulane and have gone on to careers in law, public health, architecture, and business.

Laurene Powell Jobs and Carlos Watson established the College Track Program in 1997 to recruit and mentor students in limited-income communities from their freshman year of high school through college and beyond. The organization partners with twenty-one colleges and universities across the country, assigning mentors to assist College Track Scholars by being their source of academic support and leadership to ensure college readiness.   

Tulane became a College Track partner in 2014. College Track Scholars at Tulane represent a network of students from sites across the country.