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 Center for Student Opportunity helps students and their supporters discover the many colleges and universities committed to serving the traditionally underserved. Check out these programs and more to find schools promoting a college-bound culture. |
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 Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL
Summer Bridge Program
Applicants to Columbia College whose academic backgrounds have not adequately prepared them for college-level academics may be offered the chance to successfully complete the Summer Bridge Program before they are admitted to the College. During the program students have the opportunity to reinforce their academic skills through coursework, tutoring, counseling, enrichment activities, and access to all college facilities. The Bridge Program is free of charge.
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 Hendrix College
Conway, AR
Campus-Wide Retention Initiatives
All incoming students are assigned a faculty adviser as well as an academic peer mentor who helps them adjust to academic and social life at Hendrix. The Office of Academic Support Services provides services to promote academic success, including peer tutoring in most subjects, one-on-one academic counseling and encouragement, and academic discussion and workshops in areas such as time management and test anxiety.
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 Mills College
Oakland, CA
Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC)
The WCRC was founded by Mills students, faculty, and alumnae of color. The center is run by and for women of color and works with the Ethnic Studies Department to provide a community for women of color at Mills and in the wider community. The WCRC is dedicated to the elimination of racism, the development of leadership by young women of color, and the creation of coalitions between women of diverse ethnic origins. Activities include leadership training for young women, coalition building and networking between ethnic groups, sponsorship for academic research, and conferences.
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 Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ
The Office for Diversity and Academic Success in the Sciences (ODASIS)
The Office for Diversity and Academic Success in the Sciences (ODASIS) has a threefold mission to increase the numbers of Hispanic, African-American, Native American, and New Jersey Educational Opportunity Fund students majoring in the sciences. ODASIS does this by providing a supportive environment; improving retention rates; enhancing students' levels of academic achievement; and increasing students' entry rates into graduate or professional schools, or in their chosen fields in the workforce.
Since 1997, 165 ODASIS students from underrepresented groups have received their M.D.'s and 244 have become chiropractors, dentists, physician's assistants, podiatrists, doctors of osteopathy, nurses, or are pursuing other health-allied professions. Within the ODASIS graduating class of 2009, 50 of our African American and Latino graduates were accepted to medical and other health professional schools while 28 of our alumni graduated from their respective schools.
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 University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Platteville, WI
Paths to Platteville
Paths to Platteville enables underserved high school students to visit college campuses in Wisconsin. Every year about 500 students learn about the admissions and financial aid process in addition to touring college campuses and interacting with current first-generation and minority students.
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 Yale University
New Haven, CT
Science, Technology and Research Scholars (STARS)
STARS provides select freshmen through seniors with an integrated experience in research, course-based study and development of mentorship skills. STARS identifies and supports students from groups that are underrepresented in scientific and technological disciplines, along with students who come from disadvantaged circumstances, in any of Yale’s natural sciences and engineering majors.
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CSO College Center is a free online clearinghouse of college programs and admissions information serving first-generation college, low-income, rural, and minority student populations. Check it out today! |
High School Class of 2010:
Attending a CSO College Partner? First in your family to go to college? In need of money to pay for college?
Apply for the CSO Opportunity Scholarship!
Download the application here or contact scholarship@csopportunity.org for more information.
Deadline May 28, 2010.
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Check out the new Opportunity Scholars Blog.
Read posts from our ten dynamic Opportunity Scholarship winners as they blog about their college experience and share how they became the first in their family to go to college.
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 Opportunity Scholars, program assists highly motivated traditionally underserved college-bound students through the college process to identify and enroll in four-year, student-centered colleges and universities that seek to serve and support them. |
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