Originally published on USFSM Campus News by Marc R. Masferrer on June 13, 2024
About 60 Latino high school students enrolled in a college preparation program organized by UnidosNow, a local community organization, are spending almost two weeks of their summer at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee learning what it might be like to attend USF, the region’s only preeminent global research university.
The students are part of UnidosNow’s Future Leadership Academy, described on the group’s website as “a rigorous year-round program focused on addressing the disparity in college enrollment of low-income, first-generation Latinx high school students and their families in Sarasota and Manatee counties.”
Sarasota-Manatee campus leaders, including Regional Chancellor Karen Holbrook and Brett Kemker, regional vice chancellor academic affairs and student success; Darren Gambrell, director of student success; and Clara Buie, USF’s assistant vice president for student success in Tampa, gave the students an enthusiastic welcome, before other members of the faculty and staff led students on tours of the campus.
Read more here: High school students get a taste of college life at USF Sarasota-Manatee as part of Future Leadership Academy