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| CSO College Center is an online clearinghouse of college programs and admissions information serving first-generation, low-income, and minority student populations. Learn about these outreach, recruitment, and retention programs and more to find schools promoting a college-bound culture. |
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Clarkson
University
Potsdam,
New York
Horizons
Horizons is
a program designed to encourage women to enter the fields of science and technology.
While women have an equal aptitude as men in these fields, women are consistently
underrepresented within them. This program hopes to helps change that fact by
and is designed to help girls (grades 7 and 8) understand the excitement of mathematics
and science, to choose courses in high school that will lead to college study
in math-based disciplines, and recognize the potential for fulfilling careers
in these fields. In addition to compelling academic hands-on projects in science
and engineering, professional development and personal enrichment components
support the academic material by exploring careers in nontraditional fields of
study, and by addressing issues of interest to young women at a critical stage
of adolescence.
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College
of Mount St. Joseph
Cincinatti, OH
Project SCOPE
Project SCOPE (Summer Collegiate Orientation Program
and Enrichment) provides access to higher education for minority
students. African-American high school sophomores from the Greater
Cincinnati area reside on the Mount’s campus and attend
classes for one to two weeks. Classes improve skills in sciences,
computer literacy, psychology, and spoken word. Students attend
workshops about the college admission process, library research,
financial aid, and study skills. The program is offered for three
consecutive years, culminating in college preparedness and six
transferable college credits for high school seniors.
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Mills
College
Oakland,
CA
Summer Academic Workshop
Mills
College hosts the Summer Academic Workshop (SAW), a rigorous
four-week academic program for selected students designed to
aid in the development of critical thinking skills, enhanced
reading and writing skills, leadership skills, and an appreciation
and respect for diversity. The SAW program offers selected
students an intensive three-module, four-week course of sociological
inquiry, English, and mathematics and logic. The program
is framed around the intersection of race, ethnicity, class,
gender, and sexual orientation. This theme is used as the basis
for developing critical thinking skills, enhanced reading and
writing skills, leadership skills, and an appreciation and
respect for diversity.
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Ohio
Northern University
Ada, Ohio
Vision Builders
Ohio Northern University has received a grant from the Minority
Recruitment Program of the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges
to establish Vision Builders, a minority student recruitment
effort aimed at broadening the scope of the University’s
student diversity. With the ultimate goal to increase student
diversity at ONU, Vision Builders features two components. The
first facet is a mentoring program where Ohio Northern students
of color work with multicultural high school seniors throughout
the year. Current partners include the MI Ready Program at the
Lima Senior High School of Multiple Intelligences, and the Lima
Black Achievers. The second component is the Vision Builders
Day at ONU. The event will bring to approximately 50 multicultural
students from four different Ohio high schools to campus where
they will spend the day learning about the University.
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Presbyterian
College
Clinton, SC
CHAMPS
CHAMPS (Communities, Helping, Assisting,
and Motivating Promising Students) is a youth outreach
program in the community. Its mission is to nurture, motivate,
and challenge selected Laurens County students who have promise
and potential, but who may otherwise fall short of their highest
educational potential. CHAMPS provides these students
with a vision of their future and stimulates them to strive toward
post-secondary education.
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University
of South Florida
Tampa, FL
ENLACE
ENLACE is a community-focused college outreach program that forms
a partnership between the University of South Florida, Hillsborough
Community College, the Hispanic Services Council and the School
District of Hillsborough County in order to increase the number
of Latinos enrolling in USF and obtaining college degrees. ENLACE
focuses on local Latino middle and high school students, ensuring
that these students complete high school and enroll in the college
of their choice. Once students are enrolled in USF ENLACE supports
their academic success, while promoting retention and graduation.
The ENLACE program works to enhance the success of Latino students
so that they may achieve their full potential as role models,
mentors and community leaders.
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