Academy of Finance
The Academy of Finance (AOF) is an American educational program first established in 1982 by the National Academy Foundation. The Academy of Finance is one of the four member programs sponsored by the National Academy Foundation (AOF, AOIT, AOHT, AOE). It is a small learning community that offers high school students an opportunity to study accounting, international trade, leadership, and the use of technology in preparing for college and the financial services industry. It also allows students to earn college credit while still in secondary education. The program is offered in more than 260 secondary education institutions nationwide.
The National Academy Foundation was the vision of P. Frankfort, the Director of the Academy of Finance that she established in 1989. In 1981, she designed a program for the New York City Department of Education and for Shearson Lehman Brothers chaired by Sanford I. Weill. Her proposal for the "Institute for the Study of Finance" recommended a program for public high school students. Weill's gave $100,000 to develop the program through the firm's foundation, headed by D. Topol. This was matched by the New York City Board of Education. Frankfort designed and implemented the program and the first Academy of Finance opened at John Dewey High School in Brooklyn in 1982 with 35 students. The program was designed to introduce young people in New York City to potential careers in the financial services industry.
Weill explained in his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee: "You saw young people playing in the street, young people without having a clue of what life was about, and how they can become part of the system. That was the beginning of the idea that maybe the private sector should get together with the public sector and see if we can create a high-school level program that can expose young people for a career in the financial services industry."[1]
Schools offering the program
- Col. Zadok Magruder High School(Rockville, Maryland)
- Alvirne High School (Hudson, New Hampshire)
- Pine Bush High School (Pine Bush, New York)
- Chief Sealth High School (Seattle, Washington)
- Ed W. Clark High School (Las Vegas, Nevada)
- Northern High School (Owings, Maryland)
- Huntingtown High School (Huntingtown, Maryland)
- Calvert High School (Prince Frederick, Maryland)
- Patuxent High School (Lusby, Maryland)
- Watkins Mill High School (Gaithersburg, Maryland)
- Paint Branch High School (Burtonsville, Maryland)
- Northwestern High School (Hyattsville, Maryland)
- Northwest High School (Germantown, Maryland)
- Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School (San Francisco, California)
- Coral Glades High School (Coral Springs, Florida)
- J. P. Taravella High School (Coral Springs, Florida)
- Sanderson High School (Raleigh, North Carolina)
- Douglas Byrd High School (Fayetteville, North Carolina)
- Dunwoody High School (Dunwoody, Georgia)
- Coral Gables Senior High School (Coral Gables, Florida)
- Fort Lee High School (Fort Lee, New Jersey)
- Franklin High School (Seattle, Washington)
- Independence High School (San Jose, California)
- Depew High School (Depew, New York)
- Business Careers High School
- Walter M. Williams High School
- Buchholz High School
- Northeast High School (St. Petersburg, Florida)
- Center Grove High School
- Greenfield High School
- Columbus East High School
- Hamilton Southeastern High School
- North Rockland High School
- North Tonawanda High School
- Perry Meridian High School
- Pike High School
- Spruce Creek High School
- Paul Robeson High School
- Southport High School
- Flanagan High School
- John Dewey High School
- East Davidson High School
- James Madison High School (Brooklyn)
- Northport High School (Northport, New York)
- Westport High School (Missouri)
- William R. Boone High School
- Overlea High School
- New Hyde Park Memorial High School
- Waipahu High School
- Omaha Bryan High School
- Orchard Park High School
- New Britain High School
- Charles Herbert Flowers High School
- Lansdowne High School
- Oak Grove High School (San Jose, California)
- Highland School of Technology
- Brandon High School (Brandon, Florida)
- Bishop Ward High School (Kansas City, Kansas)
- Tottenville High School (Staten Island, New York)
- Middletown High School (Middletown, New York)
- Carroll High School (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
- John Dewey High School (Brooklyn, New York)
- Gloucester High School (Virginia)
- Jamaica High School (New York City)
- Ballard High School (Seattle, Washington)
- Passaic County Technical Institute (Wayne, New Jersey)
- Hamburg High School
- Plantation High School
- Cooper City High School
- San Diego High School
- West Seneca West Senior High School (Buffalo, NY)
- Senior Londonderry High School (Londonderry, NH)
T.C Williams High School, Alexandria VA
References
- ↑ "Academy of Finance". AJ Moore Academy, Waco, TX. Retrieved 5 November 2011.