Franklin Cummings Tech traces its mission to Benjamin Franklin's 1790 will, which created a loan fund for apprenticeships and tradespeople. The college admits anyone regardless of test scores or GPA, focusing on technology and trade education to help students advance economically.
The mission of Franklin Cummings Tech is to deliver transformative tech and trade education that leads to economic advancement. And we are an access college, a broad access college, meaning we are test agnostic and we don't have a minimum gpa. Our goal is to really broaden access to education for as many folks as possible, in particular tech and trade education. And that's because our mission, our charter dates to 1790, to the codicil of the will of Benjamin Franklin, who left what many people consider the first estate gift in the Americas. And it was £1,000 that he left to the city of Boston for two purposes. To provide a fund, a revolving loan fund that was managed by an office in the city so that people who wanted to pursue a trade could borrow money to do that and they wouldn't have to go into debt to be apprenticed. The secondary purpose was for people who already had a trade to borrow money from the same fund so that they could establish their own business. And Franklin was very clear that his largess was created not only because he had a skill, but because he employed that skill to, to found a business. And so even today we've kept the connection to applicable trade education at the center of our mission.
