FUTURE GRADUATE UNIVERSITY · K–8

Don't learn about college. Attend one.

For one semester, students enroll in a university built for their age. They apply, get a student ID, explore careers, declare a major, visit real colleges, read a syllabus, find financial aid, build a résumé, serve their community, sit for an interview, and walk at commencement with a diploma. Free. Online. No accounts.

How it works Little Grad College Future Graduate College Navigator College

THE MODEL

The child explores. The facilitator guides. EFF prepares.

Every course is an experience, not a lecture: a task, a snag, a second try, a reflection. A facilitator walks students through it in the room from a finished kit. The same activities are online for any child, any time — and everything they make goes in a folder that follows them from Little Grad College to Navigator College to an EFF high school chapter.

📝Admissions DayApply. Accepted on the spot. Student ID. The tour.

🧭Explore & DeclareCareer quiz, clusters, college prep quiz, declare a major.

🏛️CollegesHBCUs, PWIs, state colleges. Dream school, backup school.

📚CoursesSyllabus · financial aid · résumé · service · interview.

🎤FinalsPortfolio defense with a mentor.

🎓CommencementCaps, diplomas, families.

REAL HOURS · REAL PAPER · REAL PRIVACY

What's mock is the campus. Everything else is real.

The diploma is real. The service hours are real, verified by EFF on foundation letterhead. The acceptance letters go home to families. And nothing a child does here leaves the room: first names only, printed by the facilitator on the school printer, never stored, never sent.

Students earn

A student ID, a major, a dream school
Community service hours, EFF-verified, that carry forward to high school
A résumé, a service record, an interview badge
A transcript with no grades, and a diploma

Families receive

An acceptance letter for their child, in English or Español
One question to ask every week, on the card that comes home
Resources for themselves — going back to school, helping their child, a hand when needed
An invitation to Commencement, and no penalty if they can't come

EFF never does

Store a student's name online
Give a grade
Rank children or assign a career label
Award hours for work not done

EFF National · Chancellor's officeWrites every course, verifies every hour, signs every diploma. Screens and trains every adult who delivers.

The schoolApproves the program, names the site host, hands over a room. Its rules govern on its campus.

The facilitatorA teacher, or a screened college student with a teacher present. Runs the Admissions Office, holds the consent forms, prints the paper.

StudentsApply, attend, serve, defend the portfolio, graduate.

GRADES K–2

Little Grad College.

Pictures and drawingEssie reads everythingStickers20–25 minutesA tiny diploma

Picture it. A kindergartner types her first name on the class tablet, taps "I helped a little kid," and a purple cartoon named Essie says, out loud, "Congratulations, Amara. You're in." Confetti. Her teacher prints an acceptance letter and a student ID with a circle where Amara draws her own face. Ten weeks later she's wearing a paper cap, holding a diploma, and telling her grandmother that college is a big school for grown-ups where you get a hat.

Admissions DayTap your answers. Get your student card. Take the tour with Essie.

FGU 101 · Who HelpsTap who helps when your tummy hurts, when you're stuck, when you lose your jacket. Say "Can you help me, please?" out loud. Color your Helper Map.

FGU 102 · Money WordsA scholarship is a gift for school. Sort the pictures: gift or borrow. Decorate the gift-box card for the fridge.

FGU 103 · All About MeTap what you can do. Draw you doing something you're good at. That's your first résumé.

FGU 104 · Helping Othershelper hoursPick who to thank. Draw the card. Hand it over and say "thank you for helping us."

FGU 105 · My First InterviewSay what you like to do. Tell one time you helped. Ask Essie a question back.

CommencementPut on your hat. Get your diploma. Families clap.

No writing required. Every answer is a tap, a drawing, or said out loud.

Read aloud, always. Essie reads every screen; the facilitator reads every card.

Helper hours count. Same log, with a sticker for each. They're real too.

Everything goes home. A card in the backpack every week, with one question for a grown-up.

Enroll a class Join a session

GRADES 3–5

Future Graduate College.

Career quizDeclare a majorHBCUs & PWIsA syllabus, an aid letter, a résuméService hoursPortfolio defense

Picture it. A 4th grader who has never heard the word "syllabus" spends a Thursday helping a college freshman named Jordan through her first week. The Front Desk says "that's a financial aid hold — we can't fix it here," and his team's first plan fails. Then the helper card arrives with the exact question on the back, and he rehearses it with a partner: "Is there a hold on my account, and what do I need to do to lift it?" In December he sits across from a college student at Finals and explains, in three minutes, his major, his dream school, and what changed between plan one and plan two.

Admissions DayApply with one tap-question, get accepted on the spot, get your Student ID, take the campus tour, hear the Chancellor's story.

FGU 200 · Explore & DeclareThe Career Quiz — which would you rather try? Six clusters: Helpers & Healers, Builders & Fixers, Makers & Artists, Thinkers & Discoverers, Leaders & Teachers, Movers & Protectors. The College Prep Quiz. Sign your Major Declaration: "I know I can change it."

Colleges weekWhat an HBCU is, what a PWI is, what a state college is — honestly, at a kid's level. Two official virtual visits. A compare card. Pick a Dream School and a Backup School the way real applicants do.

FGU 201 · Reading a Syllabus (with Jordan)Find Science Hall at 10:00 on the map. Explain "a one-page response" to a partner. Rehearse the Financial Aid question with the exact words. Campus comic.

FGU 202 · Financial Aid 101The golden ticket. Sort a simplified aid letter into GIFT and BORROW. Circle the free money. Write the question to ask the office. Mythbuster card home: college isn't for rich kids.

FGU 203 · Résumé LabYou already do things adults get paid for. Four boxes and a badge — Official Translator, Sibling Guardian, Tech Master, Animal Caretaker. Parent Endorsement Ticket comes back.

FGU 204 · Service Practicum1–2 hoursOne on-campus project the class votes for. Everyone takes a job. Something won't go to plan; adjust and finish. Service Reflection: what we did, who it helped, what I noticed.

FGU 205 · Interview SeminarTwo questions, a real example, one question back. Ninety seconds with a mentor. Interview at home; let them interview you.

Finals · Portfolio DefenseThree minutes with a mentor: my major, my dream school, my résumé, my question for financial aid, and the first plan that failed.

CommencementCaps, diplomas, families, the college students who visited. One thing I can do now. The chant.

Choices first. Tap-to-answer everywhere; typing only for a name or a word they know.

No grades. The transcript says Completed and carries the mentor's note.

Hours are verified. Logged with an adult's signature; EFF issues the letter at Commencement.

Dreams can change. The major and the dream school are declared, not assigned — and re-declared any time.

Enroll a class Join a session Résumé tool

GRADES 6–8

Navigator College.

A real course catalogNet priceA scholarship you'd qualify forLead a service projectPanel interviewThe placement question

Picture it. An 8th grader builds a 15-credit first-semester schedule from a real catalog and discovers her dream class has a prerequisite. She looks up the net price at an HBCU, a PWI, and the state college down the road, and finds the number nobody told her about. Then she does the thing this college exists for: she walks into her counselor's office and asks, "What decides which math class I'm in next year, and what does it open or close?" — before it's decided, not after.

Admissions DayA short personal statement (choices provided), your ID, the tour, and what the next eleven weeks require.

Explore & DeclareCareer clusters in depth — what people do all day, the tools, how they learned, a first attempt that needed fixing. The College Prep Quiz and a real course catalog for your major.

Colleges weekHBCU, PWI, community college: compare cost, size, majors, and support offices for first-generation students. Net price on College Scorecard. Dream, match, safety.

FGU 301 · Syllabus & ScheduleBuild a 15-credit schedule with no conflicts. Find the prerequisite for the class you want. Put every due date from a syllabus on a calendar. Learn what "late policy" and "office hours" mean.

FGU 302 · Financial Aid & Net PriceSticker price vs. net price. Sort a real (simplified) aid letter: free, earned, borrowed. What a refund check is. What a hold is. Find one scholarship you'd qualify for and check it's real — never pay to apply. Your first-year budget on one page.

FGU 303 · Résumé & PortfolioA real one-page résumé: experience, service hours, skills, awards. Organize everything you've made since Little Grad College for Finals.

FGU 304 · Service Leadership3 hoursPlan and lead a project for a younger class with the host present: roles, timeline, the thing that goes wrong, the fix. Care packages for EFF's college students count too.

FGU 305 · Interview SeminarThree questions, real examples, questions back, and the hard one: "tell me about a time something didn't work." Five minutes with a panel of two.

FGU 306 · Navigating SystemsThe 8th-grade placement question. What a hold is, what a prerequisite is, who decides. Map your goal back to now. Rehearse the counselor conversation — then have it, and record the answer.

Finals & CommencementFive-minute portfolio defense: your 9th-grade plan and your first-year college budget. Then caps, diplomas, your college mentors, and your plan in one sentence.

The placement mission is mandatory. Every Navigator runs it before placements go out.

Real tools. College Scorecard, a real catalog, a real (simplified) aid letter.

You lead the service. Younger students, host present, you own the plan.

The folder follows you. Everything since kindergarten is in it — and it goes to your EFF high school chapter next.

Enroll a class Middle school: your moves College Scorecard

WHAT YOU'LL HOLD

The portfolio.

📝Applicationaccepted on the spot

🪪Student IDon a lanyard

📣Major Declaration"I can change it"

🏛️Dream & Backup SchoolHBCU · PWI · state college

📇Résuméon FGU letterhead

🤝Service RecordEFF-verified hours

🎤Interview Badgereal example · asked back

📜Transcriptcompleted, no grades

🎓Diplomasigned at Commencement

SIDE BY SIDE

Three colleges, one university.

	Little Grad · K–2	Future Graduate · 3–5	Navigator · 6–8
Session length	20–25 minutes	30–40 minutes	40–45 minutes
How they answer	Tap, draw, say it	Tap first; type a name or a word	Type, plan, explain
Career exposure	Career wheel; "what I might be"	Career Quiz; six clusters; declare a major	Clusters in depth; a real course catalog for the major
Colleges	Two campuses: "which feels like me?"	HBCU vs PWI vs state college; dream & backup	Net price; support offices; dream, match, safety
Money	Gift or borrow	Simplified aid letter; the golden ticket	Real aid letter; refund check; a first-year budget; a scholarship search
Service hours	Helper hours, with stickers	1–2 (practicum) + up to 5 independent	3 (leadership) + up to 5 independent
Interview	Three lines said aloud	Two questions, 90 seconds, a mentor	Three questions, 5 minutes, a panel
Finals	Show a grown-up your folder	Three-minute portfolio defense	Five-minute defense + 9th-grade plan
All three: application · student ID · acceptance letters home · transcript with no grades · diploma · first names only · printed at school · never stored

Facilitated sessions require school approval, parent consent, and a school employee in the room. The online activities are free for any child to use with a grown-up. Community service hours are verified by the site host and EFF; hours are never awarded for household chores or for work not performed.

Bring the university to your students.

EFF is piloting at schools in 2026–27. Everything here is free to explore and use now. If you want to participate — teacher, counselor, parent, college student, school — tell us.

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