March 7 deadline for students to apply for High School Alliance

Students who’d like to participate in the UNMC High School Alliance this coming fall have until March 7 to apply.

Application forms can be found on the UNMC High School Alliance website.

UNMC professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery Bill Lydiatt, M.D., works with high school alliance students.

Only 50 students will be accepted into the alliance, which is a partnership between UNMC, nine Omaha area school districts and Educational Service Unit 3.

The alliance lets high school students take college-level courses in preparation for health careers.

Students must:

• Be at least 16 and entering their junior or senior years of high school at the start of the 2012-13 academic year; and
  
• Have completed algebra and biology.

The courses — specifically designed for high school students — are taught by UNMC faculty on the medical center campus. The program provides a hands-on learning experience that is different from what students would have access to at their high schools. Most of the courses offered in the program are eligible for dual enrollment credit with the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

The program is funded primarily through the Sherwood Foundation, but receives support from the UNMC College of Medicine Alumni Association, UNMC and Omaha Public Schools.