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by Lisa Garcia SummerTIME—CHEPA’s four-week intensive summer writing and college knowledge program for rising college freshmen—is in full swing. All 90 students meet with a CHEPA staff member, student, or campus volunteer to review their financial aid notification (FAN) letters. Most of our students are well prepared financially to transition to a two- or four-year [...]

Not my kind of pop!: Waiting for the police to show up (+ a couple of financial aid notes) This post would probably be a bit different if there wasn’t someone sitting in front of my house smoking some kind of drug. This is really happening as I write this at 8:20 a.m. on a [...]

CHEPA’s SummerTIME program is featured on the USC Rossier School of Education’s homepage. Check out our awesome students!

David Bowie & Queen remind me to calm down—it’s SummerTIME I volunteer with this really cool program called SummerTIME run by the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at USC. I work with the recently graduated high school seniors who will become college freshmen in just a few short weeks. The program helps them focuses [...]

by Randy Clemens The history of education reform is the history of trends. Movements come and go and then come back again, oftentimes refashioned with new rhetoric or different twists. Community-based reforms, which are becoming increasingly popular, are no different. The recurrence of social movements in this instance, however, may be beneficial. Jane Addams and [...]

We have just concluded another year of SummerTIME.  Several years ago I was struck by how unprepared our public high school students are for college.  Many of them graduate from high school with high grade point averages, and they gain entrance to a UC or CSU and have to take remedial courses.  They also are [...]

In our third week of SummerTIME, we had five considerably different presentations on vital class room equipment, necessary tools essential for college success.  It is in accordance to say that we did not have any prior knowledge to these sessions.  Our first presentation was given by Professor Bill Tierney.  He told us about facts in regards to college [...]

During the first day of college knowledge we learned about the importance of getting involved in campus. Jonathan Mathis advised us about joining clubs and told us to stay aware of clubs that are not recognized by the school. The following day he told us about time management, and how it is important to keep a [...]

SummerTIME for the past one week has been quite enriching.  The discussions  and preceding readings involved the issues of sexual orientation, rape as a term used  to describe the forceful penetration of one’s ideas into another culture, and gender violence.  We had the opportunity to explore why and how many women, and sometimes even men, experience  violence. Even [...]