Our Partners
Urban Assembly School of Music and Art is proud of the partnerships we have forged. Our partners are committed to providing our students with extraordinary opportunities that will build strong foundations for academic, personal, and professional success.
The Bard Early College Academy
The Bard Early College Academy at the Urban Assembly School of Music and Art (UAMA) enables UAMA students in 11th and 12th grade to enroll as part-time undergraduate students of Bard College and earn tuition-free college credits concurrently with their high school studies. Participating students take a liberal arts college course of study that aims to intellectually engage UAMA students and help them prepare for and succeed in college.
The Bard Early College Academy establishes an academic extension of Bard College at the UAMA. College courses are taught by Bard Early College faculty, and take place on the UAMA campus within the UAMA course schedule. Additionally, students participate in field trips, including conferences and academic events on the Bard College campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, and joint programming with Bard’s other early colleges in the tri-state area. Upon completion of the Bard Seminar sequence, UAMA students have the opportunity to earn as much as a semester of Bard College credits, tuition-free.
The ArtsHub
The ArtsHub is a launch pad established by the Arts Office of the New York City Department of Education. A central space in located the same location as UAMA, it provides a place where students, artists, and educators can collaborate, create and learn.
The Arts Hub’s approach is 3-pronged:
1) Offer significantly expanded access to the arts for NYCDOE students.
2) Engaging world-class artists to provide high quality professional learning opportunities
for educators that they can take back to their classrooms.
3) Engage cultural and arts partners from all corners of the city in youth programs.
To learn more about the ArtsHub, check out official page of the NYC DOE Arts Office
University of Albany
Coming in Fall of 2024
UA Music and Art’s Bard Early College Academy is expanding course offerings with Bard College and a new partnership with University in High School SUNY Albany to provide all 12th graders with dual credit enrollment. This partnership is designed to ensure all UAMA graduates are both career ready in their arts major and college ready with a minimum of a full year of transferable college course credits.
LIU High School Scholars Program
The LIU High School Scholars Program offers high school students a unique opportunity to accelerate their college education. Through a wide range of dual-credit courses—applicable toward both the high school diploma and a bachelor’s degree—LIU High School Scholars earn college credits while studying in their high school classrooms.
College Now
College Now is a comprehensive collaborative program of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the New York City Department of Education (DOE) designed to improve the academic achievement of NYC Public High School students, while preparing them for the demands of college. College Now at City Tech offers students from designated high schools the opportunity to enroll in college credit-bearing courses FREE of cost. Classes meet after the regular high school day and/or on Saturday on the City Tech campus.
Exploring the Arts
Exploring the Arts (ETA) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization founded in 1999 by Tony Bennett and Susan Benedetto. ETA’s mission is to strengthen the role of the arts in public high school education. ETA’s programs connect private funders, individual artists, and cultural institutions to Partner Schools to achieve greater equality of resources and opportunity for youth of all means and backgrounds. ETA currently serves 17 Partner Schools throughout New York City’s five boroughs and in East Los Angeles.