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UCR 2020 Grad Aims for the Highest Education Office
By Univ. of California, Riverside | UCR
After a foster care childhood, recent UCR graduate, Monique Guerra’s ultimate career goal is the United States Secretary of Education ...
UCR's Class of 2020 Discusses Pandemic, Recession, & Times of Social Unrest
By Univ. of California, Riverside | UCR
Graduating Highlanders talk about walking into an unimaginable post-grad era and offer messages of hope for other graduates …
UCR Provides Holiday Warmth for Former Foster Youth
By Jeff Horeseman | The Press-Enterprise
UCR's Guardian Scholars' dinner and gift exchange celebrated not just the holidays, but the kinship felt by students who often don’t have loved ones to go home to …
Foster Youth Students' Summer Impact
By Sandra Baltazar Martinez | UCR News
Bela Mendoza's three-month summer internship with Riverside’s Operation SafeHouse offers an inside look at how to make a bigger, more positive impact ...
Mammouth Coffee Donates 20% of Proceeds to UCR Foster Youth
By Madeline Adamo | Inside UCR
A three-year-old business owned by alumnus Steve Shatkin ‘89 and his wife, Tracie has been supporting Guardian Scholars since 2016 …
Defying the Odds: From Foster Care to Cap and Gown
By Nicole Freeling | UC Newsroom
As 10K+ University of California 2019 graduates cross the stage this weekend, 350+ of them are also former foster care youths …
Brandi Taylor Pursues MBA After Achieving Undergraduate Degree
By Zach Tawarti | Spectrum News 1
For Brandi, UCR is home because home doesn’t have to be a place you seek — sometimes it’s the place that seeks you …
Liliana Flores Proved Them Wrong
By Annie Gilbertson | LAist
Smuggled across three borders. Abused by her parents. Sent to foster care. Locked up in juvenile hall. And now a UCR graduate ...
Guardianes Escolares: Forja un Camino al Exito
By Alejandro Cano | La Opinion
Con solo 13 años de edad, Mayra Mendoza decidió escapar de una vida de tormentos y fue así como junto a su hermana dejó su natal Acuña, en Coahuila …
Anonymous Donor Promises to Match $20K
By Ross French | Inside UCR
A guarantee to match funds raised at Dance Marathon, an evening of dancing and raising funds for UCR’s Guardian Scholars program …
UCR Foster Youth Accepted to Nine Medical Schools
By Bettye Miller | UCR Today
UC Riverside School of Medicine. UCLA. UC Davis and San Francisco. Cornell. Columbia. USC. Northwestern. University of Pittsburgh …
Guardian Scholars Celebrates Five Strong Years of Service
By Konrad Nagy | Inside UCR
Established in 2008, the program aids with financial aid, year-round housing, mentoring, counseling, priority registration, employment assistance …
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