JOHNSON Julian
Senior Vice-President, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) (USA)
Session: Sustainability - Funding Education in the 21st Century: Who Pays for the Education of the Global Citizens?
Monday, 16 November 2009
- 11.00-12.30
Julian Johnson is Senior Vice President of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), a non-governmental organization based in New York that provides college preparatory and career development opportunities to minority students in the United States. Mr. Johnson has over 30 years’ experience in the non-governmental sector, including 15 years working in the educational arena with disadvantaged populations.
Since joining SEO in 2002, Mr. Johnson has been responsible for redesigning the organization’s educational and training programs to help better prepare students from minority and disadvantaged backgrounds to gain entry and succeed at America’s top colleges and universities and most competitive industries. For the past three years he has led the organization’s effort to re-think how out-of-school time can be used more effectively to close the academic achievement gap between low-income students and their more advantaged counterparts. Following the lead of public school reformers in the United States who have emphasized high expectations and increased time on task for students, Mr. Johnson created a model for the organization’s out-of-school time Scholars Program that adds the equivalent of a sixth day of school per week to help low income secondary school students gain the needed academic skills for college readiness. The model is now completing its pilot phase and is preparing for replication.
Before joining SEO, Julian was Director of Development and Corporate Partnerships at the Institute of International Education (IIE), which administers global education, exchange and training programs, including the Fulbright Program. While at IIE, he helped to develop the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund which aids scholars facing threats of persecution in their home countries. He holds Masters Degrees in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University in New York, and in Non-Profit Management from the New School. He presently serves on the board of trustees of the Institute of International Education and on several scholarship and fellowship review committees.
Since joining SEO in 2002, Mr. Johnson has been responsible for redesigning the organization’s educational and training programs to help better prepare students from minority and disadvantaged backgrounds to gain entry and succeed at America’s top colleges and universities and most competitive industries. For the past three years he has led the organization’s effort to re-think how out-of-school time can be used more effectively to close the academic achievement gap between low-income students and their more advantaged counterparts. Following the lead of public school reformers in the United States who have emphasized high expectations and increased time on task for students, Mr. Johnson created a model for the organization’s out-of-school time Scholars Program that adds the equivalent of a sixth day of school per week to help low income secondary school students gain the needed academic skills for college readiness. The model is now completing its pilot phase and is preparing for replication.
Before joining SEO, Julian was Director of Development and Corporate Partnerships at the Institute of International Education (IIE), which administers global education, exchange and training programs, including the Fulbright Program. While at IIE, he helped to develop the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund which aids scholars facing threats of persecution in their home countries. He holds Masters Degrees in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University in New York, and in Non-Profit Management from the New School. He presently serves on the board of trustees of the Institute of International Education and on several scholarship and fellowship review committees.
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