Supporting Underserved Students for Postsecondary Success

Corporation grantee Univision features Spanish-language resources to help low-income and first-generation students pursue higher education, earn a degree, and find employers

By Carnegie Corporation of New York June 1, 2022

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A mere 22 percent of young people who grow up in underserved communities obtain a university degree or go to technical school after high school. In communities with more resources, this number increases to 67 percent. The disparity is not due to a lack of ambition or desire but due to a lack of opportunity and access to resources.

A weekly series by Univision, a Corporation grantee and the country’s largest provider of Spanish-language content, features three Corporation grantees that serve educational needs in local Hispanic communities, equipping low-income and first-generation students with the tools necessary to achieve postsecondary success.

Watch the weekly television series, in Spanish, as well as a Facebook Live livestream that features all three grantees together:

Bottom Line sets students up with a guide during the college application process and throughout college. Jessica Lopez, a student representative, speaks of the helpfulness of Bottom Line’s one-on-one guidance and how it provides thousands of first-generation students from low-income backgrounds with specialized programs and support systems to help them stay in college and complete their degrees.

Stephany Garcia, a representative from JobsFirstNYC, shares job development opportunities and programs available to young people in New York and describes how JobsFirstNYC is bridging the gap between employers and jobseekers between the ages of 16 and 24.

Flow Tejada, director of teacher support at OneGoal, explains how OneGoal is working with 23 public high schools across New York City and in other cities across the country to offer a free class to junior-year high school students. For their last two years of high school, students are matched with a OneGoal team to help them pursue their goals, explore their strengths, and plan for their future.

Bottom Line, JobsFirstNYC, and OneGoal joined Univision on a Facebook livestream to discuss their complementary work, the importance of community support, and to share student testimonials, and more.