Category: Projects

Like a game, the college application process is a system with rules. Mastering a game takes practice, but, for most people, the college application process is a game we only get to play once. For more information, visit here.

Our SummerTIME program (Tools, Information, Motivation, Education) serves low-income underrepresented college-bound students representing Los Angeles Unified high schools where over 90% of attendees are eligible for the federal school lunch program. Students who attend low-income urban schools are frequently unprepared for college. Most CHEPA program participants live in homes where English is a second language and are the first in […]

Giving a voice to Homeless Adolescents in the Los Angeles Education System.Living on the street has a devastating effect on youth and their ability to transition into adulthood.Residential instability,abuse,neglect,a lack of role models and a host of other factors impact an adolescent’s ability to buld trusting relationships and establish support networks that are necessary for a successful transition into adulthood […]

Researchers at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education have designed a methodology and have identified measures that would assess the impact of these diversity courses on students’ higher order thinking skills at a large private university which has 16,500 undergraduates and over 88 specified courses that can meet the requirement. For more information, visit http://diversitycourses.org/.