Access Programs and Services
High School Conference (Fall)
Each year, APSA holds its annual High School Conference during fall quarter. This biggie event focuses on the access work that APSA does. APSA's High School Conference wishes to support high school students in their journey towards achieving their goals by providing a fun-filled day for attendees on the UC San Diego campus itself! It is of no costs to high school students. Our High School Conferences are aimed towards providing the adequate resources and tools students need to pursue higher education. Through fun and informative workshops, mentorship, a scholarship opportunity from UCSD APSA, and a tour of the UCSD campus, we hope to help create greater access to higher education for underserved and underrepresented high school students.
This program is put on with through our High School Conference Co-Coordinators and APSA Community LEAP Coordinator.
Contacts: [email protected] and [email protected]
This program is put on with through our High School Conference Co-Coordinators and APSA Community LEAP Coordinator.
Contacts: [email protected] and [email protected]
APSA Learning and Empowerment Academic (LEAP) Program
APSA LEAP is a student-initiated and student-run project that seeks to provide educationally disadvantaged students in the San Diego community with the necessary resources to better pursue higher education by cultivating an awareness of one’s cultural, academic, political and social identity. LEAP will emphasize the importance of higher education for K-12 students, and make efforts to show that collegiate education is possible regardless of socioeconomic or cultural backgrounds. Often times, Asians and Pacific-Islanders (API) are clustered into one broad ethnic/racial category thus mistaken as overrepresented in institutions of higher education. Disaggregated data would reveal the low levels of educational attainment and achievement among many subgroups of the Asian and Pacific-Islanders students. The APSA LEAP Coordinator will be in charge of coordinating, maintaining, and establishing access events/programs that promote educational equity and equal access to higher education for the broader Asian and Pacific-Islander communities. APSA LEAP currently encompasses: APSA LEAP Committee meetings, the annual APSA High School Conference, and a partnership with Crawford High School’s Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID).
Contact: [email protected] for more information or if you are from a local San Diego high school and are interested in working with us.
Contact: [email protected] for more information or if you are from a local San Diego high school and are interested in working with us.