Pedro Nava, Marco Murillo, and Argelia Lara received $650,000 from William T. Grant Foundation
Pedro Nava, Marco Murillo and Argelia Lara with the Education Department have received a $650,000 award from William T. Grant Foundation to support their project "Strengthening a Holistic, Community-Based Pre-Collegiate and Collegiate Support System to Enhance College Matriculation, Persistence, and Success among Latinx Students in East San José, California: Preparing Racially Minoritized Students for College During Uncertain Times".
This project partnership will include three organizations - the School of Education and Counseling Psychology within Santa Clara University (SCU) and two non-profit organizations: The Foundation for Hispanic Education(TFHE), which operates three high schools serving a low-income Latinx population in East San Jose, and Latino Education Advancement Foundation (LEAF), an organization that operates a number of initiatives to address educational inequities in East San Jose and beyond to support Latinx students and their families to enroll, persist, and graduate from four-year colleges with a clear career path. The goal of this project is to reduce youth inequality (college and career access) and changing institutional policies and practices to enhance partnership to use research for the benefit of SCU, TFHE, and LEAF.