Education Philanthropy

SAS® Curriculum Pathways®

This product provides interactive, standards-based resources in the core disciplines for middle and high school students in traditional, virtual or home learning environments. SAS Curriculum Pathways is available to every educator in the US at no cost.

SAS® Programming for High School

SAS provides five days of training, all instructional materials, assessments and teaching guides necessary to teach SAS programming to high schools. Students will leave this course with skills that allow them to sit for the SAS Certification Exam, a globally recognized certification. These resources are available to educators at no cost.

The North Carolina 1:1 Learning Collaborative

SAS is a founding partner of this public-private partnership providing laptops, professional development and critical support to schools in rural areas. The final stage culminated with Redesign 2.0, a proof of concept based on best practices from the NC 1:1 Learning Technology Initiative.

Algebra Readiness Initiative

This collaborative effort helps mathematics teachers identify and engage in highly effective instructional practices and address disparities in mathematics achievement related to race and income. Schools in the Triangle High Five Partnership, which includes five public school districts (Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Durham, Johnston, Orange and Wake Counties) are striving to increase the number of students who are prepared to be successful in Algebra 1 in middle school.

SAS^® Teaching Materials in the Classroom

The SAS Education division provides teaching materials to help professors and instructors incorporate SAS into their teaching, including presentation slides, data sets and printable/editable files of the student manual. These materials are provided free of charge, with copyright permission for professors to use any of the content in their own class notes.

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Support to Universities and Community Colleges

SAS provides numerous guest lecturers to universities and community colleges in North Carolina and other states – at no cost to the institutions. In addition, from time to time SAS provides assistance with symposiums held at the universities.

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Institute for Advanced Analytics

In 2007, SAS and North Carolina State University partnered to create the Institute for Advanced Analytics (IAA) to promote graduate education in analytics. This partnership created a unique and intensive, one-year advanced analytics master's degree where so far 100 percent of graduates have received high-paying job offers, strongly indicative of the great demand for these 21st century skills.

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SAS^® Software for Higher Education: Teaching

SAS Curriculum Pathways is used in community colleges across the country to help with remedial learning, engaging students with an interactive curriculum that prepares them to continue their higher education pursuits.

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SAS® OnDemand for Academics

SAS OnDemand for Academics provides an online delivery model for teaching and learning data management and analytics. By connecting to a SAS-hosted server over the Web, users access the analytical power of SAS software through a user-friendly, point-and-click interface at no cost for professors and minimal cost to students.

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Other Support Programs for Higher Education

• The SAS Scholar Award Program annually awards five $2,500 undergraduate scholarships for children of eligible employees in the United States.
• The SAS Student Ambassador Program is a competitive program that recognizes and supports students who use SAS technologies in innovative ways that benefit their respective industries and fields of study. Ambassadors are given the opportunity to present their research at the annual users conference, SAS Global Forum.
• Each year, SAS provides a free trip for five student winners of a poster competition to the Business Forecasting Conference in Cary, NC, and the Data Mining Conference in Las Vegas. These scholarships offer the recipients a venue to present their work in an industry environment.
• Each year, SAS conducts an event to share the latest analytical training with professors who teach data mining.
• SAS, Dow Chemical Co. and Central Michigan University Research Corp. collaborate to offer a Data Mining Shootout, where student and faculty teams compete to solve a real-world data mining problem. Winners receive a free trip to the annual SAS Data Mining Conference, an invitation to present their work during the conference, and cash prizes from $2,000 to $5,000 for their departments.
• SAS works closely with institutions to develop certificate programs in a variety of areas of SAS expertise, including data mining, statistical methods, data analysis and programming.
• SAS provides course notes, slides and data sets from many of its public training courses, free of charge, for university instructors to use in teaching SAS to students.
• SAS presents an informational lecture - An Analysis of Institutional Research Data Using SAS - to help institutional researchers learn more about how SAS can help them better understand, analyze and report on research data.

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SAS-Supported Programs

SAS support is directed toward sustainable programs that help teens succeed in the classroom and graduate from high school. In particular, SAS supports programs that focus on the integration of technology that will strengthen the education system and increase the number of students entering careers in science, technology, engineering and math. Programs must also show that their efforts have a long-term impact and affect significant numbers of people, without discrimination. Examples include:

• Change the Equation, a program with a network of more than 110 CEOs who pledge to create widespread literacy in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) as an investment in the US.
• Communities in Schools, the nation's largest dropout prevention organization.
• Common Core Standards, an effort to define common curriculum standards for all states.
• DonorsChoose.org, "the eBay of online charitable giving," is a national nonprofit that connects employees with classrooms in need. Each year, SAS matches employee contributions to the cause.
• In-Kind Donations for nonprofit organizations that need computer equipment or software. SAS gives hundreds of thousands of dollars in surplus computer hardware, office equipment and other tangible items to community groups that can benefit from the donation.
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, a program that advances the quality of teaching and learning by developing professional standards.
• NC Center for International Understanding, a program to ensure that North Carolina is the most globally engaged state in the nation.
• NC Science Festival, a statewide showcase of science activities.
• North Carolina State University, a leading land-grant institution globally recognized for its leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
• Triangle High Five Partnership, committed to seeing that students graduate from high school ready for higher education and careers of their choice.
• UNC Public Television broadcasts enriching, life-changing television to North Carolina citizens of all ages. SAS is proud to support award-winning, educational programs that are watched by more than 4 million viewers each week.
• Wake County Public Schools, the largest school district in North Carolina and the 18th largest in the nation.
• Wake Education Partnership, an independent nonprofit organization that mobilizes business and community involvement in Wake County schools.
• Wake Technical Community College, a two-year, public institution serving Raleigh, NC, and surrounding Wake County.
• YMCA of the Triangle, with 15 facilities to meet community needs through programs that promote good health, strong families and solid communities.

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Volunteerism

SAS employees give generously through thousands of hours volunteered at programs such as the Employee Volunteer Fund, in which SAS provides cash contributions to education-based nonprofit organizations where employees volunteer. Other community organizations and programs where SAS employees contribute include North Carolina Food Bank, Communities In Schools, North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation, SAS EcoAdvocates Volunteer Program, UNC Public Television and the Shepherd's Table Soup Kitchen, where SAS cafés also donate leftover food through the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle (part of Feeding America).

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