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Summer residential program at UCI helps middle school girls see themselves as college material

American Talent Initiative aims to educate 50,000 of them at colleges with best graduation rates by 2025

At UCI, LaShonda Carter ’15 found others who helped her realize her dreams

Anteater Academy at once-underperforming Santa Ana high school graduates first cohort of college-bound teens. The program is an example of UCI’s outreach to underrepresented students that placed it at the top of The New York Times’ College Access Index of schools that do the most for low-income students. Thirteen recent graduates of the school will attend UCI in the fall.

Keith Curry, Ed.D. ’11 is steering Compton Community College District out of troubled waters

UCI’s Thomas Parham speaks to Compton high school students as part of systemwide Achieve UC event

Community college students get a taste of university life in 10-day program

First-generation alumnus now works at U.S. Department of Education helping others like him

No one can tell Carla Plaza she hasn’t earned the right to a college education. The 35-year-old senior in biochemistry & molecular biology at UC Irvine is months away from getting a bachelor’s degree — the first in her family to do so — and taking another step toward her childhood dream of becoming a […]

Participants will tackle issues such as bullying, body image, homelessness and gang violence at a leadership conference that helps develop young civic problem solvers.