Tracy Meade
Tracy Meade is the University Director for Collaborative Programs at the Office of Academic Affairs of The City University of New York. Ms. Meade is responsible for oversight of College Now, the university's largest partnership with the New York City secondary schools, and she additionally oversees the CUNY Middle Grades Initiative/GEAR UP program, the newly created At Home in College program, and the Research and Evaluation unit for Collaborative Programs. Ms. Meade recently led a CUNY Office of Academic Affairs team in its effort to conceptualize a new community college, and she is presently leading phase two planning of this project for the University.
Ms. Meade holds an MA in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Before she joined Collaborative Programs eight years ago, Ms. Meade was the Director of the Learning Center (Writing, Reading and Math support, and Services for Students with Disabilities) at The College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, MN. At the College of St. Catherine and at De Anza Community College in Cupertino, CA, Ms. Meade taught developmental and freshman writing. Her success with students in the developmental writing classroom and the learning center is the source of her professional determination to create college-sponsored educational opportunities for high school students—opportunities that reveal student ability to succeed and as a consequence expose the educational pitfalls in and between our nation's secondary and postsecondary public school systems. Ms. Meade is chair of the board of directors of Urban Word NYC, a youth development organization committed to building the next generation of leaders through the written and spoken word. Additionally, Ms. Meade is a member of the advisory board for the Graduate Program in Disabilities Studies at the City University of New York.
