Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis

Pathfinder
The Power of Games

The digital frontier in education is using video games to teach. The Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis in conjunction with the USC Game Innovation Lab invite you to play your way through the college application process.

Coming 2010-2011

I AM
Increasing Access via Mentoring

The Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis (CHEPA) proudly presents Increasing Access via Mentoring (I AM), an action based intensive mentoring model where faculty, staff, and students guide college-ready high school seniors through the college and financial aid application processes. We help students make informed decisions about their college options.through one-on-one mentoring. Since 2004 we have helped over 300 students pursue their goals of higher education.

To find out more about how to become a mentor for the 2010/2011 school year, please visit: URL coming soon

SummerTIME
Tools, Information, Motivation, Education

Each summer, the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis (CHEPA) hosts a rigorous four week writing program designed for low-income, first generation college-bound LAUSD high school juniors and seniors. The writing focus is on composition skills, grammar and revision, but composing a mistake-free essay with a clean thesis and a strong point of view is only one piece of the academic literacy students need to succeed in college. By embedding the study of "College Knowledge" within a traditional writing curriculum, SummerTIME insures that students learn not only how to write a paper within a university context, but also how to access the resources which support college-level work and bolster college-going success.

To find out more or to apply to the 2010 cohort, please visit: SummerTIME