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Marquette
University
Milwaukee, WI
Urban Scholars Program
Marquette’s Urban Scholars Program provides 10
full-tuition awards to low-income students (including undocumented
students) who show great academic promise. The Urban Scholars Program
award guarantees that a student’s federal, state and Marquette
gift assistance will cover all tuition costs for each year of a
four-year undergraduate program, provided the student maintains
a 2.0 grade point average. Students are selected for this award
based on academic merit, leadership and financial need. The 10
awards are designated to Milwaukee high school graduates and one
graduate of Cristo Rey High School in Chicago.
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Prairie
View A&M University
Prairie
View, TX
Academy for Collegiate Excellence and Student Success (ACCESS)
Program
Prairie View A&M
University’s “bridge to college” program is designed to improve
students’ academic performance and assist in their transition from high
school to college. ACCESS students participate in a seven-week residential,
academic summer program that provides instruction in mathematics, reading comprehension,
writing, critical thinking and problem solving. Complementing the weekly classroom
instruction are off-campus field experiences designed to enhance and bring
relevance to the academic studies. These activities are critical in the development
of leadership, personal, social and cultural enrichment skills needed for success
in college and in the world of work. For the last two years, there has been
a focus in these activities on service-learning and civic engagement that has
added a significant dimension to the students’ overall ACCESS experience.
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out more about Prairie View A&M University…
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State University of New York at Geneseo
Geneseo, NY
COMPASS
The primary goal of COMPASS at the State University of New York at Geneseo is to create a system of support for admitted students of African, Latino, Asian or Native American descent. To minimize struggles so that students can achieve early success in their college careers, COMPASS pairs first-year students — “Protégés” — with upperclassmen “Peer Mentors” and faculty “Fellows.” In addition, Protégés enroll in a biweekly College Success Seminar taught by the Peer Mentors. Tutoring support to COMPASS Protégés is available.
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University of Denver
Denver, CO
Voices of Discovery
The Voices of Discovery Intergroup Dialogue Program brings together small groups of students from diverse backgrounds to share their life and campus experiences related to diversity. Participants explore a variety of questions including: How do other students experience DU in similar and different ways than you? What would you like to know about a group different from your own? What would you like to teach others about the groups to which you belong? The dialogues are more than just conversation; they’re focused—exploring campus experiences, in relation to group identity; facilitated—led by 2 trained facilitators, one representing each identity group involved; and fair and full—having roughly equal numbers of each group represented in each dialogue group.
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Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
MOSAIC Weekend
Held in mid-March, Vanderbilt University’s MOSAIC Weekend invites minority students admitted to Vanderbilt to campus from Thursday to Sunday. In fact, the students receive an early acceptance notice in the form of a MOSAIC letter invitation, and the weekend features academic sessions, ice-breaker exercises, student activities and performances and tickets to the annual Vanderbilt Step Show. The Office of Admissions offers financial assistance for travel to students in need.
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Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC
Project C.A.R.E. (Committed to African-American Retention in Education)
Project C.A.R.E. is a combination of programs that seek to improve the academic performance and retention of Western Carolina University’s African-American student population. A fall retreat for African-American first-year and transfer students takes place the first weekend after classes begin. The retreat is designed as an extension of the orientation process. The primary focus is to address specific questions and concerns about life as an African-American student at Western Carolina University; meet peer counselors, other entering freshmen and African-American faculty and staff; and develop friendships that help students through their undergraduate years and beyond.
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