{"id":522,"date":"2016-02-17T19:57:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/furmans-bridges-to-a-brighter-future-cited-in-national-study-on-college-access-programs\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:57:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:57:15","slug":"furmans-bridges-to-a-brighter-future-cited-in-national-study-on-college-access-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furmans-bridges-to-a-brighter-future-cited-in-national-study-on-college-access-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridges to a Brighter Future cited in national study on top college access programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 25, 2012<br \/>\nby Tina Underwood, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bridges-logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2657 lazyload\" title=\"bridges-logo\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/bridges-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"118\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 216px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 216\/118;\" \/><\/a>GREENVILLE, S.C.\u2014Furman University\u2019s \u201cBridges to a Brighter Future\u201d program is one of 10 college access programs cited in a national independent study, \u201cA Blueprint for Success: Case Studies of Successful Pre-College Outreach Programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study provides an in-depth look at how 10 programs in the U.S. became and remain successful in helping youth prepare and go to college.<\/p>\n<p>The report is underwritten by the Educational Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.- based corporation whose mission is to \u201cexpand educational opportunity for low-income and other historically underrepresented students through high-level research and analysis.\u201d\u00a0 The TG Public Benefit Program also supported the effort. \u00a0The other nine programs cited are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bottom Line, Boston, Mass.<\/li>\n<li>Breakthrough Saint Paul, St. Paul, Minn.<\/li>\n<li>The Boys Hope Girls Hope &#8211; The College Road, Bridgeton, Mo.<\/li>\n<li>College Bound St. Louis, St. Louis, Mo.<\/li>\n<li>College Track, Oakland, Calif.<\/li>\n<li>Education is Freedom, Dallas, Tex.<\/li>\n<li>Foundation for a College Education, East Palo Alto, Calif.<\/li>\n<li>Hispanic Youth Institute, Washington, D.C.<\/li>\n<li>The Partners Program, Oakland, Calif.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Furman\u2019s Bridges to a Brighter Future is a college access and academic enrichment program for Greenville County high school students who have great academic potential but face difficult and challenging circumstances.\u00a0 The program equips the students with the tools and support needed to graduate from high school, enroll in post-secondary education, and graduate with a post-secondary degree.<\/p>\n<p>The Bridges program has received numerous awards, including the 2009 Excellence in Summer Learning Award from the National Center for Summer Learning.\u00a0 It also has been\u00a0featured in Essence Magazine and on the U.S. Department of Education television program, \u201cEducation News Parents Can Use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlueprint for Success\u201d can be downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationalpolicy.org\/publications\/pubpdf\/TG_CASESTUDY.pdf\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 For more information about Bridges to a Brighter Future, contact program director Tobi Swartz at 864-294-3135 or <a href=\"mailto:tobi.swartz@furman.edu\">tobi.swartz@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 25, 2012<br \/>\nby Tina Underwood, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p>Furman\u2019s \u201cBridges to a Brighter Future\u201d program is one of 10 college access programs cited in a national independent study, \u201cA Blueprint for Success: Case Studies of Successful Pre-College Outreach Programs.\u201d \u00a0The study provides an in-depth look at how 10 programs in the U.S. became and remain successful in helping youth prepare and go to college.\u00a0The report is underwritten by the Educational Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}