The UC Santa Cruz’s Educational Partnership Center has been awarded a GEAR UP federal grant to serve students in the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District.
The GEAR UP program is designed to help prepare middle and high
school students for college through academic and financial aid advising,
tutoring, college field trips and other college-going activities. It also includes professional development for teachers as they implement
the Common Core State Standards to prepare students for college and career.
The grant will fund UCSC’s outreach to local underserved students and amounts to approximately $468,000 annually and close to $3.3 million dollars across seven years.
The U.S. Department of Education funded 10 state and 31 partnership grant applications, 7 of which were
in California.
UCSC's Educational Partnership Center
currently oversees two other GEAR UP grants: one in South Monterey County and the other in the Pajaro
Valley region. The EPC coordinates new and longstanding student academic preparation efforts of the
University of California, Santa Cruz with the goal of increasing access and opportunity to postsecondary
education for students across the Monterey Bay and Silicon Valley/San Jose regions.
Other recipients of GEAR UP grants in California include, YPI Charter Schools, Humboldt State
University, Los Angeles Unified School District, CSU Monterey Bay, and Cal State San Bernardino.
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