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Welcome Orientation

On December 13th, College Connect welcomed Cohort 12 to the Mission Graduates family. College Connect is a family-based college access and success program that [...]

As Cohort 10 heads off to college, we love to celebrate students like Daniel who took every opportunity to set themselves up for success in their first year of college – including writing over [...]

When a College Connect student first meets their Writing Partner, it can be hard to imagine spending the next year sharing [...]

Another campus we visited was a private college which was the University of Redlands. This school has only 5,000 students enrolled. The class average size is 19 students.

Born and raised in San Diego, by an undocumented single mother, Karen is the middle child between two sisters. Growing up, Karen developed a strong relationship with her family, especially her [...]

Every summer, College Connect shifts focus a bit - to talk about what comes after a college degree: career.

Mission Graduates and College Connect were thrilled to celebrate the 2016 “I Am the Future” Mayor's Scholarship Awardees this month.

For this year's 25 high school graduates, Mi Pasaje was a time to come together with their cohort and celebrate with family. And for our 13 college graduates, Mi Pasaje was a culmination of [...]

Mission Graduates' College and Career Center team celebrated their first high school graduation this year after an amazing start to new programming at John O'Connell High School.