Harvey Mudd 向上的束缚 格兰特 Renewed Through 2027

Now that the Harvey Mudd College 向上的束缚 program has been funded for the next five years, program Director Angie Covarrubias Aguilar is excited for what is ahead.

50多年了, HMC’s 向上的束缚 program has helped first-generation, low-income high school students develop skills for college success. Funded by the Department of Education, the program began in 1968 at the Claremont University Center and was moved to Harvey Mudd in 1972 by then president Joseph Platt.

向上的束缚 means a lot to Covarrubias Aguilar, who is a 1996 graduate of the program. 她说, “As a former student in the program, I feel a sense of responsibility to continue and expand the opportunities that our 向上的束缚 program provides to our students. My team and I know the positive impact it has had on the communities that we serve and our program alumni. We want to be able to continue the work that is so needed in our community.”

有了资金保障, Covarrubias Aguilar says she and her team are focusing on rebuilding and strengthening 向上的束缚, available for free to high school students in five target high schools in the East Gabriel Valley.

The structure of the program has changed some due to the pandemic. 2022年夏季, 58岁的学生, ranging from sophomores to seniors in high school, commute to HMC Monday through Friday. All students are required to take two classes a day. 下课后, the sophomores participate in makerspace projects, juniors have three hours of a virtual internship with the Scripps 研究 Institute, and seniors have a four-hour virtual internship with the Library of Congress. Two of the seniors in the program are doing research with Harvey Mudd biology professors Danae Schulz and Dan Stoebel.

The 向上的束缚 program also includes activities during the school year. 一个月三个星期六, 九月至四月, students are transported to the HMC campus to meet with an academic tutor (a Claremont College undergrad student) and to participate in a college planning session. 每周自习期间, the tutors are transported to local high schools to offer an additional two hours of academic tutoring. 也, Covarrubias Aguilar and her staff plan various enrichment activities, 包括参观大学, 戏剧和博物馆参观.

向上的束缚 benefits both students and their families. 学生 develop their academic skills while both they and their families are guided through the college application process. “We do this in a number of ways,Covarrubias Aguilar说, “from tutoring to individual advising, summer programs and internships, 到星期六的节目. At the end of the students’ participation, they leave feeling better prepared, motivated and confident in their academic abilities.”

Covarrubias Aguilar is excited to continue seeing low-income, first-generation students attend college. 从历史上看, more than 90 percent of HMC’s 上进学生 have enrolled in 帖子secondary institutions after graduating from high school.