background on the
Latino Scholastic
Achievement Corporation
The Latino
Scholastic Achievement Corporation is an educational non-profit
501.c.3 organization. It was founded in 1992. Its original
purpose was to reverse the long standing condition of having
up to 96 percent of Latino college students leave college
without obtaining their four year degree program. In 1992,
the total student enrollment in the Latino Scholastic Achievement
Corporation College Drop Out Prevention Program (CDOPP) was
32. In 1999, the DOPP serviced 102 college students. The total
number of low income, at-risk students that have participated
in the Latino Scholastic Achievement Corporation academic
achievement programs and conferences is now in the tens of
thousands.
In 1998,
the Latino Scholastic Achievement Corporation mission was
revised in order to expand its Drop Out Prevention Programs
to include underrepresented low income, at-risk high school
students and parents within the Southern California area.
In 2004,
the Latino Scholastic Achievement Corporation received the
support of The Walt Disney Company, La Agencia de Orci, PlanetaTV.com
and many others to design and create a bilingual video and
audio broadband system and offer educational programming through
its web site at http://www.LatinoGraduate.net/.
Streaming programming will be available to classrooms and
homes of underrepresented low income, at-risk high school
students and parents with Internet access. Currently the broadband
system encompasses 6 video and 5 audio steaming channels.
Broadband programming will be offered for free and available
on-demand 24/7. The following is the current arrangement of
scheduled primary themes for the video and audio series:
The
College Admission Process
How
to Finance a College Education
Campus-To-Career
Transition
Role
Models
Arts,
Science, and Entertainment
Partial
list of additional themes and upcoming conference topic areas
to be offered through broadband programs:
Effective
Decision-making
Time Management
Conducting Scholarly Research
Effective Examination/Test Taking Strategies
Management and Distribution of Limited Personal Resources
Educational Goal Clarification
Short/long Term Planning
Improving Career Networking Skills
Effective Strategies For Financing a Undergraduate And Graduate
College Education
Maintaining Personal Integrity
Improving Self-motivation
Strengthening Leadership Skills
Familiarity With Professional Career Opportunities
Full Utilization of Additional Academic Support Resources
Developing and maintaining Professional Career Contacts
Extending
opportunity to organizations to utilize the LatinoGraduate.net
broadband system:
Strategic
plans are being developed which will allow viable local, national
and international educational and related organizations to
utilize the LatinoGraduate.net broadband broadcast system
to highlight their conferences, programs, and conduct organizational
development conferencing.
Serving
on Advisory Boards and Provide Consultation:
Latino
Scholastic Achievement Corporate members will continue to
serve as advisors and consultants to local and national organizations,
scholarship and philanthropic boards that have elected to
provide long term educational mentor ship and academic support
program designed specifically to insure that greater number
of traditionally underrepresented students obtain their diploma
and pursue a higher education degree.
Contact
information:
Armando
F. Sánchez
Founder
and Executive Director
Latino
Scholastic Achievement Corporation
PO
Box 3232
Montebello,
CA 90640
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