USC’s signature college-access program, the Neighborhood Academic Initiative, expands its reach to Murchison Elementary School and El Sereno Elementary School….Continue Reading Trojans in training, in East Los Angeles
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USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative expands to East LA
For the first time in its history, the USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative will expand beyond South Los Angeles to include more than 100 sixth-graders near the university’s Health Sciences Campus (HSC) in East Los Angeles….Continue Reading USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative expands to East LA
NAI students go behind the scenes at Univision
A bus filled with enthusiastic USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI) students arrived at the headquarters of the Spanish-language television network Univision for a day of discovery and career shadowing….Continue Reading NAI students go behind the scenes at Univision
Science comes alive
Learn how neighborhood high school students join USC research labs. Every single student in the near quarter-century of the STAR program has gone on to a university or college….Continue Reading Science comes alive
Congrats NAI Grads: Headed to West Point, Pomona and USC
USC’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative graduates 57 South Los Angeles students, all enrolling in higher education; 14 will attend USC on full-tuition scholarships…Continue Reading Congrats NAI Grads: Headed to West Point, Pomona and USC
Academic Advancement That’s All in the Family
By Robin Heffler A fifth-grade class assignment dramatically changed the life of Jonathan Ruiz and his family. Jonathan”s teacher at 28th Street School assigned his class to apply for admission to the flagship program of USC’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI). Through NAI’s Pre-College Enrichment Academy, disadvantaged middle- and high-school students receive extensive academic training and…Continue Reading Academic Advancement That’s All in the Family