Today the Hispanic College Fund (HCF) launched the Hispanic Youth Institute, a web-based initiative designed to empower high school students to pursue a college education, enter a professional career, and give back to their communities. The Hispanic Youth Institute will initially serve the 2,600 alumni of HCF's Hispanic Youth Symposium, a four-day college empowerment program that has been hosted in numerous cities across the U.S. since 2004. Alumni will invite other students to participate in student-led Hispanic Youth Institute programming, with the goal of creating grassroots cultural change amongst Latinos in American high schools.
"Our experience working with high school students has taught us that they are an incredibly powerful influence for their peers," said Idalia Fernandez, president of the Hispanic College Fund. "That's why the Hispanic College Fund is focused on creating change from the bottom-up - starting with the students themselves. Not only will this student-led program help individual students succeed, but it will also change the college-going culture of the schools that our students attend." READ FULL STORY
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