Company Profile
Schuler Scholar Program
Company Overview
Schuler Mission
We are a private, non-profit foundation in the northern suburbs of Chicago. Schuler currently serves over 900 high school and college Scholars in partnership with 12 high schools located throughout the northern suburbs and the city of Chicago.
Mission:
The Schuler Scholar Program equips high-achieving underrepresented students to gain access to and succeed at highly selective colleges and beyond.
We hold our Scholars to a very high standard and Scholars are given ample individual support for the hard work throughout their high school years to help them succeed.
The Schuler Scholar Program includes:
a rigorous academic foundation
leadership skills
improved cultural fluency
intensive and individualized support in selecting, applying, and gaining entrance to high caliber colleges
support in college through the transition of freshman year
We culminate the program with successful integration into the working world, with access to internships, job fairs, and corporate partner network opportunities and a lifelong network of fellow Scholars and mentors.
Company History
Launched in 2001 by Jack Schuler and daughter, Tanya Schuler Sharman, the Schuler Scholar Program (SSP) was originally conceived as a vehicle for the Schuler Family Foundation to provide college scholarship assistance to bright, motivated high school students in order for them to matriculate to selective, private colleges and universities. Students at partner high schools in the Chicagoland area would be chosen in the spring of their freshman year to receive mentoring and college counseling while in high school and a scholarship award for college.
Waukegan High School was selected as a partner in 2002. In an effort to jump start the program, in addition to selecting a group of freshman scholars, two college scholarships were awarded to graduating seniors. Shortly thereafter the program evolved to include providing high school academic support and enrichment programs designed to prepare the scholars for the rigors of a selective college. In 2006, Schuler partnered with Round Lake High School and in 2008 the first class of Schuler Scholars was selected at Warren Township High School. In 2009, Scholars from Highland Park High School joined the program and in 2010 the partnership expanded to Maine East High School. In 2011 Schuler renewed its partnership with St. Martin de Porres High School. 2012 marked a year where Schuler entered city limits and partnered with Collins Academy High School and followed with the addition of CICS Ellison High School in 2013. 2014 brought expansion in both the northern suburbs at Zion-Benton Township High School and in the city at Richard T. Crane Medical Preparatory High School. City expansion continued in 2015 with the addition of Lindblom Math &Science Academy. Mundelein High School and George Westinghouse College Prep are the latest additions to the Schuler partnership and launched in 2016.
In 2009, in an effort to expand its impact on the young people served, the Schuler modified its scholar selection strategy and began accepting applications from students in the spring of their 8th grade year in school. In the new model, the selected scholars receive an additional year of programming while in high school.
With a growing number of Schuler Scholars on selective college campuses across the country, it became clear that Scholar support was also needed during the college years. Today, the Schuler College Program staff provides extensive programming and outreach to our scholars as they navigate college life and beyond.
Benefits
403 (B)
$55 monthly phone reimbursement