Project duration: Ongoing
Project's focus area: scholarship fund
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Higher education is out of reach for many talented Latino/a graduates from undersourced high schools who lack the financial resources to attend college and do not qualify for loans and other scholarship assistance. SLI provides counsel and special programming to improve their chances for admission to college. SLI's scholarship fund makes their attendance affordable.
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Students participate in an early college Poverty and Pluralism course alongside their mentors that exposes them to college work, complete self-designed structured volunteer service, receive SAT and ACT training to enhance test taking abilities. |
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Providing promising Latino students with college education gives them the tools to succeed in college and assist their communities. This is critical to prevent the Latino population from forming a permanent underclass in society. |
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These students are the newest global commodity. They think, speak, and operate in two cultures. They are one of our greatest resources and we must provide more access to higher education for them.
- Janet Kier Lopez, Project director
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Peter Kaufman,
Project Coordinator
SLI, c/o Peter Iver Kaufman
Dept of Religious Studies, CB 3225, Saunders Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
United States
919-962-9487
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