By George White, New America Media
In the wake of a two-year campaign that generated increases in the number of African Americans and other students of color on UC campuses, the University of California and the Boys & Girls Club of America have launched an outreach partnership that could become a new model for building additional diversity pipelines on statewide and national levels.
Under the pilot program, UC will provide academic counseling, host campus visits and promote college-readiness programs for Boys & Girls Clubs that serve students in many low-income communities in three California cities. It will pair the Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena with UCLA, the San Francisco club with UC San Francisco and the Merced club with UC Merced in a bid reach about 6,000 club members in those cities. If the program is successful, UC hopes to expand it throughout the 10-campus UC system.
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