October 15, 2015
By Brenda Ortiz, University Communications
UC Merced is one of nearly 150 public and private sector organizations who answered the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics’ 25th anniversary call to action.
The campus has committed more than $750,000 through foundation support to the Gateway Scholars Program, which aims to significantly increase the number of first-generation, low-income and under-represented students. The program focuses on college readiness, matriculation, persistence and timely degree completion and has a special focus on early intervention strategies, scholarship support and retention efforts.
