The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is the largest scholarship provider in the United States.[2] The private, independent foundation is dedicated to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need. It offers the largest scholarships in the U.S., comprehensive counseling and other support services to students from 8th grade to graduate school. Since 2000 it has awarded over $175 million in scholarships to nearly 2,300 students and more than $97 million in grants to organizations that serve outstanding low-income students.[3][4][5]
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation was launched in 2000, funded by a bequest from entrepreneur and sports team owner Jack Kent Cooke, who died in 1997. Cooke had to leave high school in Canada in 1930 before graduating in order to help support his family during the Great Depression. He later went on to amass a fortune and move to the United States, eventually acquiring the Washington Redskins football team.
In his will, Cooke made provisions for the sale of the Redskins and some of his other assets to create a foundation to help extraordinary students with financial need – similar in many ways to himself as a young man – afford a college education.
The first executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation was Matthew J. Quinn, serving from 2000 to 2009, when Harvard University psychologist Lawrence Kutner succeeded him. Harold O. Levy, a former New York City schools chancellor, led the foundation from September 2014 through May 2018.[6] Current Executive Director Giuseppe “Seppy” Basili assumed the role in June 2018.[7]
Scholarships and awards
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has awarded more than $175 million in scholarship assistance to nearly 2,300 high school and college students.
Cooke College Scholars and Undergraduate Transfer Scholars can receive up to $40,000 annually to cover tuition, living expenses, books and fees. In addition, the students who hold these scholarships are eligible to apply for a graduate school scholarship worth up to $50,000 a year, which is renewable for up to four years. Cooke International Awards at the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge are worth up to $85,000 a year for graduate study.
Scholarships for high school, undergraduate and graduate students include academic advising, access to internship opportunities, funding for study abroad, and opportunities to network with other Cooke Scholars and alumni.
Here is a list of current Cooke Scholarship and Awards Programs:
The Cooke Young Scholars Program serves students from 8th grade through high school with financial need who have earned all or mostly A grades since the 6th grade. The program has provided $21.7 million to help fund summer enrichment programs, extracurricular activities, educational travel, purchases of computers and other technology, individualized counselling to set academic goals, guidance on applying to colleges, and the costs of attending private and public high schools for 817 Young Scholars since 2001.[8]
The Cooke College Scholarship Program provides undergraduate scholarships to high school seniors with financial need. The scholarships are available to 12th graders who have earned a cumulative unweighted grade-point average of at least 3.5, along with minimum SAT combined critical reading and math scores of at least 1200, or a minimum ACT composite score of 26. The Cooke Foundation has selected 622 College Scholars since 2006 and awarded $22.8 million in scholarship support.[9]
The Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship Program enables top community college students with financial need to complete their bachelor's degrees by transferring to selective four-year colleges or universities. Scholarships are available to current community college students or recent alumni who have earned a grade-point average of 3.5 or above. The Cooke Foundation has selected 808 Undergraduate Transfer Scholars since 2002 and awarded $34 million in scholarship support.[10]
The Cooke Graduate Scholarships have totalled $67.8 million for 673 students since 2002. In 2010 the award became available only to recipients of the Cooke College Scholarship and Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship.[11]
The Cooke International Awards at Oxford and Cambridge Universities are scholarships of up to $85,000 a year for a Cooke Scholar with financial need who has already received a bachelor's degree. The awards enable a scholar to pursue a graduate degree at Lincoln or Brasenose College at the University of Oxford or Clare College at the University of Cambridge, all in the United Kingdom. This program was launched in 2015 and expanded in 2016.[12]
The Matthew J. Quinn Prize, named to honor the Cooke Foundation's founding executive director, is a $10,000 award given annually to one or more Cooke Scholars currently in college or graduate school or Cooke alumni. The prize recognizes outstanding achievements, such as publication of an important work, development of an innovative solution to a societal problem, or creation of a useful community program.[13]
The Matthew J. Quinn Youth Leadership Award is a $5,000 prize given annually to one or more current Young Scholars recognizing outstanding achievement, such as creation of a significant community program.[14]
Cooke Prize
The Cooke Prize for Equity in Educational Excellence is a $1 million award – the largest of its kind in the nation – given to an elite college or university with an excellent record of admitting, supporting and graduating outstanding low-income students.[15]
The Cooke Prize was first awarded in 2015, going to Vassar College in New York. In 2016 the prize was awarded to Amherst College in Massachusetts.
In the 2015–16 academic year 23 percent of Vassar's freshmen were low-income students (those receiving federal Pell Grants). Nearly 25 percent of Amherst students were receiving Pell Grants.
Grants
The Cooke Foundation awards grants to support strategic initiatives to expand educational opportunities for outstanding low-income students. It has awarded over $90 million in grants to organizations that serve such students.
Cooke Foundation grants support learning programs.
Grants to organizations working with such students in grades K-12 support programs that provide advanced learning opportunities outside the classroom for the brightest low-income students. The support is intended to help such students do well in school and lead to their increased enrolment in enriched coursework, including Advanced Placement courses and International Baccalaureate programs, to prepare them to handle college-level work and improve their chances of getting into a top college.
Grants to colleges and universities provide funding for support programs that help low-income students adjust to college, succeed once enrolled and graduate on time. Grants fall into four broad categories: college access and excellence; academic achievement; artistic advancement; and local support.[16]
Research
In addition to operating its scholarship and grant programs, the Cooke Foundation conducts research on outstanding students with financial need.
One of the foundation's studies, issued in early 2016, is called "True Merit: Ensuring Our Brightest Students Have Access to Our Best Colleges and Universities." The report concluded that top colleges and universities in the United States continue to use outdated and inaccurate measures of student ability to deny admission to many outstanding low-income students. The study found that 3 percent of students at the most selective schools come from the 25 percent of families with the lowest incomes. In sharp contrast, 72 percent of students at the top schools come from the wealthiest 25 percent of the U.S. population. The "True Merit" report calls for colleges to change their admissions practices so that academically qualified low-income students have a fair chance at being admitted to top colleges and universities.[17]
Earlier research by the Cooke Foundation that examined the challenges faced by highly talented students with financial need includes:
2007 – "Achievement Trap: How America is Failing Millions of High-Achieving Students from Lower-Income Families" documented how students from families below the median income level who start school performing at high levels lose academic ground at every level of schooling. These students suffer a big drop in college when compared to wealthier students.[18]
2014 – Partnerships That Promote Success: Lessons and Findings from the Evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative" found that partnerships between two-year and selective four-year institutions increase the number of students who transfer, and that the transfer students perform well academically.[19]
2015 – "Breaking Down Walls: Increasing Access to Four-Year Colleges for High-Achieving Community College Students" documented that many more community college students could succeed at four-year colleges and universities than are given the chance.[20]
2015 – "Equal Talents, Unequal Opportunities: A Report Card on State Support for Academically Talented Low-Income Students" assessed the extent to which all 50 states have policies in place to close the K-12 Excellence Gap and offered recommendations to states.[21]
^ ab"Jack Kent Cooke Foundation" (PDF). Foundation Center. April 19, 2016. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
^McFadden, Robert D. (November 27, 2018). "Harold O. Levy, Progressive New York City Schools Chief, Dies at 65". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
^"New School District and State Commitments Could Change Narrative for Underserved Students". Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. September 21, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
^"The Undervaluing of School Counselors". JAMES S. MURPHY. The Atlantic. September 16, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
^"Secretary King to Give Remarks at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholars". Retrieved November 9, 2016.
^McFadden, Robert D. (November 27, 2018). "Harold O. Levy, Progressive New York City Schools Chief, Dies at 65". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
^"Matthew J. Quinn: Advancing the Education of High-Achieving Students with Financial Need". Retrieved November 9, 2016.
^"Jack Kent Cooke Foundation". College Greenlight. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
^"Cooke Foundation Scholarship Program". Retrieved November 9, 2016.
^"Jack Kent Cooke Transfer Scholarship". Retrieved November 9, 2016.
^"Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship Program". Retrieved November 9, 2016.
^"2017 Cooke Graduate Scholarship". Retrieved November 9, 2016.
^"Innovative Leadership Efforts Earn 3 Cooke Scholars a Total of $15,000". Retrieved November 9, 2016.
^"Two Washington, DC Area Students Recognized by Foundation for Outstanding Achievement in Community Service" (Press release). Retrieved November 9, 2016.
^"Amherst College Awarded $1 Million Cooke Prize to Continue Work with Outstanding Low-Income Students". Caroline Hanna. May 15, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2016.
^"Jack Kent Cooke Foundation: Grants for Higher Education". Retrieved November 9, 2016.
^Levy, Harold O. (January 29, 2016). "We need poverty-based affirmative action at America's colleges". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
^"Achievement Trap: How America is Failing Millions of High-Achieving Students from Lower-Income Families" (PDF).
^"Partnerships That Promote Success: Lessons and Findings from the Evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Community College Transfer Initiative" (PDF).
^"Breaking Down Walls: Increasing Access to Four-Year Colleges for High-Achieving Community College Students" (PDF).
^"Equal Talents, Unequal Opportunities: A Report Card on State Support for Academically Talented Low-Income Students" (PDF).
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This article contains content that is written like an advertisement Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view March 2018 Learn how and when to remove this template message The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is the largest scholarship provider in the United States 2 The private independent foundation is dedicated to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need It offers the largest scholarships in the U S comprehensive counseling and other support services to students from 8th grade to graduate school Since 2000 it has awarded over 175 million in scholarships to nearly 2 300 students and more than 97 million in grants to organizations that serve outstanding low income students 3 4 5 Jack Kent Cooke FoundationFormation2000 23 years ago 2000 FounderJack Kent Cooke 1912 1997 with a bequest in his willExecutive DirectorGiuseppe Seppy BasiliRevenue 2014 133 297 496 1 Expenses 2014 39 182 203 1 Endowment 641 million July 2016 Websitejkcf wbr org Contents 1 History 2 Scholarships and awards 3 Cooke Prize 4 Grants 5 Research 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksHistory EditThe Jack Kent Cooke Foundation was launched in 2000 funded by a bequest from entrepreneur and sports team owner Jack Kent Cooke who died in 1997 Cooke had to leave high school in Canada in 1930 before graduating in order to help support his family during the Great Depression He later went on to amass a fortune and move to the United States eventually acquiring the Washington Redskins football team In his will Cooke made provisions for the sale of the Redskins and some of his other assets to create a foundation to help extraordinary students with financial need similar in many ways to himself as a young man afford a college education The first executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation was Matthew J Quinn serving from 2000 to 2009 when Harvard University psychologist Lawrence Kutner succeeded him Harold O Levy a former New York City schools chancellor led the foundation from September 2014 through May 2018 6 Current Executive Director Giuseppe Seppy Basili assumed the role in June 2018 7 Scholarships and awards EditThe Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has awarded more than 175 million in scholarship assistance to nearly 2 300 high school and college students Cooke College Scholars and Undergraduate Transfer Scholars can receive up to 40 000 annually to cover tuition living expenses books and fees In addition the students who hold these scholarships are eligible to apply for a graduate school scholarship worth up to 50 000 a year which is renewable for up to four years Cooke International Awards at the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge are worth up to 85 000 a year for graduate study Scholarships for high school undergraduate and graduate students include academic advising access to internship opportunities funding for study abroad and opportunities to network with other Cooke Scholars and alumni Here is a list of current Cooke Scholarship and Awards Programs The Cooke Young Scholars Program serves students from 8th grade through high school with financial need who have earned all or mostly A grades since the 6th grade The program has provided 21 7 million to help fund summer enrichment programs extracurricular activities educational travel purchases of computers and other technology individualized counselling to set academic goals guidance on applying to colleges and the costs of attending private and public high schools for 817 Young Scholars since 2001 8 The Cooke College Scholarship Program provides undergraduate scholarships to high school seniors with financial need The scholarships are available to 12th graders who have earned a cumulative unweighted grade point average of at least 3 5 along with minimum SAT combined critical reading and math scores of at least 1200 or a minimum ACT composite score of 26 The Cooke Foundation has selected 622 College Scholars since 2006 and awarded 22 8 million in scholarship support 9 The Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship Program enables top community college students with financial need to complete their bachelor s degrees by transferring to selective four year colleges or universities Scholarships are available to current community college students or recent alumni who have earned a grade point average of 3 5 or above The Cooke Foundation has selected 808 Undergraduate Transfer Scholars since 2002 and awarded 34 million in scholarship support 10 The Cooke Graduate Scholarships have totalled 67 8 million for 673 students since 2002 In 2010 the award became available only to recipients of the Cooke College Scholarship and Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship 11 The Cooke International Awards at Oxford and Cambridge Universities are scholarships of up to 85 000 a year for a Cooke Scholar with financial need who has already received a bachelor s degree The awards enable a scholar to pursue a graduate degree at Lincoln or Brasenose College at the University of Oxford or Clare College at the University of Cambridge all in the United Kingdom This program was launched in 2015 and expanded in 2016 12 The Matthew J Quinn Prize named to honor the Cooke Foundation s founding executive director is a 10 000 award given annually to one or more Cooke Scholars currently in college or graduate school or Cooke alumni The prize recognizes outstanding achievements such as publication of an important work development of an innovative solution to a societal problem or creation of a useful community program 13 The Matthew J Quinn Youth Leadership Award is a 5 000 prize given annually to one or more current Young Scholars recognizing outstanding achievement such as creation of a significant community program 14 Cooke Prize EditThe Cooke Prize for Equity in Educational Excellence is a 1 million award the largest of its kind in the nation given to an elite college or university with an excellent record of admitting supporting and graduating outstanding low income students 15 The Cooke Prize was first awarded in 2015 going to Vassar College in New York In 2016 the prize was awarded to Amherst College in Massachusetts In the 2015 16 academic year 23 percent of Vassar s freshmen were low income students those receiving federal Pell Grants Nearly 25 percent of Amherst students were receiving Pell Grants Grants EditThe Cooke Foundation awards grants to support strategic initiatives to expand educational opportunities for outstanding low income students It has awarded over 90 million in grants to organizations that serve such students Cooke Foundation grants support learning programs Grants to organizations working with such students in grades K 12 support programs that provide advanced learning opportunities outside the classroom for the brightest low income students The support is intended to help such students do well in school and lead to their increased enrolment in enriched coursework including Advanced Placement courses and International Baccalaureate programs to prepare them to handle college level work and improve their chances of getting into a top college Grants to colleges and universities provide funding for support programs that help low income students adjust to college succeed once enrolled and graduate on time Grants fall into four broad categories college access and excellence academic achievement artistic advancement and local support 16 Research EditIn addition to operating its scholarship and grant programs the Cooke Foundation conducts research on outstanding students with financial need One of the foundation s studies issued in early 2016 is called True Merit Ensuring Our Brightest Students Have Access to Our Best Colleges and Universities The report concluded that top colleges and universities in the United States continue to use outdated and inaccurate measures of student ability to deny admission to many outstanding low income students The study found that 3 percent of students at the most selective schools come from the 25 percent of families with the lowest incomes In sharp contrast 72 percent of students at the top schools come from the wealthiest 25 percent of the U S population The True Merit report calls for colleges to change their admissions practices so that academically qualified low income students have a fair chance at being admitted to top colleges and universities 17 Earlier research by the Cooke Foundation that examined the challenges faced by highly talented students with financial need includes 2007 Achievement Trap How America is Failing Millions of High Achieving Students from Lower Income Families documented how students from families below the median income level who start school performing at high levels lose academic ground at every level of schooling These students suffer a big drop in college when compared to wealthier students 18 2014 Partnerships That Promote Success Lessons and Findings from the Evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation s Community College Transfer Initiative found that partnerships between two year and selective four year institutions increase the number of students who transfer and that the transfer students perform well academically 19 2015 Breaking Down Walls Increasing Access to Four Year Colleges for High Achieving Community College Students documented that many more community college students could succeed at four year colleges and universities than are given the chance 20 2015 Equal Talents Unequal Opportunities A Report Card on State Support for Academically Talented Low Income Students assessed the extent to which all 50 states have policies in place to close the K 12 Excellence Gap and offered recommendations to states 21 See also EditCorporate social responsibility Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition List of wealthiest charitable foundations Philanthropy Social enterprise Social entrepreneurship Social responsibilityReferences Edit a b Jack Kent Cooke Foundation PDF Foundation Center April 19 2016 Retrieved November 17 2017 McFadden Robert D November 27 2018 Harold O Levy Progressive New York City Schools Chief Dies at 65 The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved July 3 2020 New School District and State Commitments Could Change Narrative for Underserved Students Jack Kent Cooke Foundation September 21 2016 Retrieved November 9 2016 The Undervaluing of School Counselors JAMES S MURPHY The Atlantic September 16 2016 Retrieved November 9 2016 Secretary King to Give Remarks at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholars Retrieved November 9 2016 McFadden Robert D November 27 2018 Harold O Levy Progressive New York City Schools Chief Dies at 65 The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved July 3 2020 Matthew J Quinn Advancing the Education of High Achieving Students with Financial Need Retrieved November 9 2016 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation College Greenlight Retrieved November 9 2016 Cooke Foundation Scholarship Program Retrieved November 9 2016 Jack Kent Cooke Transfer Scholarship Retrieved November 9 2016 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship Program Retrieved November 9 2016 2017 Cooke Graduate Scholarship Retrieved November 9 2016 Innovative Leadership Efforts Earn 3 Cooke Scholars a Total of 15 000 Retrieved November 9 2016 Two Washington DC Area Students Recognized by Foundation for Outstanding Achievement in Community Service Press release Retrieved November 9 2016 Amherst College Awarded 1 Million Cooke Prize to Continue Work with Outstanding Low Income Students Caroline Hanna May 15 2016 Retrieved November 9 2016 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Grants for Higher Education Retrieved November 9 2016 Levy Harold O January 29 2016 We need poverty based affirmative action at America s colleges Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Retrieved July 3 2020 Achievement Trap How America is Failing Millions of High Achieving Students from Lower Income Families PDF Partnerships That Promote Success Lessons and Findings from the Evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation s Community College Transfer Initiative PDF Breaking Down Walls Increasing Access to Four Year Colleges for High Achieving Community College Students PDF Equal Talents Unequal Opportunities A Report Card on State Support for Academically Talented Low Income Students PDF External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jack Kent Cooke Foundation The Jack Kent Cooke FoundationCoordinates 39 4 30 7 N 77 28 22 2 W 39 075194 N 77 472833 W 39 075194 77 472833 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jack Kent Cooke Foundation amp oldid 1104320147, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
