This research assessed the effectiveness (learning outcome attainment and retention) of a pilot program at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Blugold Beginnings Learning Community (BBLC).

Access to summer camp programming has routinely been a challenge for traditionally underrepresented students due to the high costs of registration fees (Orfield, Losen, Wald, & Swanson, 2004). Research has suggested that ...

The Blugold Beginnings: College and Career Readiness High School Program works with local schools to provide a comprehensive college connection for high school students. The purpose of this study was to investigate ...

Blugold Beginnings is a pre-college access program designed to help inspire and educate underrepresented youth, specifically students of color, low-income students and first-generation students, on the idea that post-secondary ...

Mentoring programs have grown steadily in number over the past few years, and currently more than 5,000 such programs serve approximately three million youth nationwide (National Mentoring Partnership, 2006). College access ...

The Blugold Beginnings College and Career Readiness High School Program works with local schools to provide a comprehensive college connection for high school students. The program now assesses students' level of self-efficacy ...

A different form of mentoring is being conducted through college access programs. College access programs have been developed over the last 20 years to help students gain knowledge and get a feeling of what college education ...

Blugold Beginnings is a program that works with local schools to provide a comprehensive college connection from fifth grade through high school graduation. This study examined the effectiveness of the Blugold Beginnings ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether students in the Blugold Beginnings College and Career Readiness Program significantly increased their knowledge about post-secondary education over the course of being ...

Underrepresented students' pathways to college tend to be more challenging, partly because they often have less access to resources, less college knowledge and preparation in the home, and often have to negotiate their ...