January 12, 2024
Let’s Go To College Bay Area Retired
Source: Meredith Curry Nuñez, Executive Director of NCCPC
After more than two years of partnership with the Southern California College Attainment Network (SoCal CAN) and their student-led hub LetsGoToCollegeCA.org, NCCPC has retired Let’s Go To College Bay Area. We look forward to announcing future student-facing resources.
About Let’s Go To College Bay Area
Launched in January 2022, Let’s Go to College Bay Area was a virtual hub of college resources for Northern California students navigating higher education, with a focus on the needs of underrepresented communities across the state.
Building off of the Let’s Go To College CA campaign, this student-ld hub offered resources and activities for students who live and go to school in the nine Bay Area counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma) as well as Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Tulare counties.
Students could access timely information to help them make informed decisions about their college plans. Topics included: evolving campus plans, financial aid, career planning, mental and physical health needs, academic tips and scholarships (including those offered by NCCPC members). At its peak, the Bay Area page received over 2,000 pageviews with viewers spending an average of 2.5 minutes.
The Let’s Go To College Bay Area goals included:
- Addressing equity in education
- Student-centered tools and systems
- Increased collaboration across higher education systems, elected officials and partner organizations for the benefit of students and their families
- Advocacy and increased student participation
NCCPC is grateful for our two-year partnership with the Southern California College Attainment Network (SoCal CAN) and their student-led hub LetsGoToCollegeCA.org. While the Bay Area page is now hidden and we have discontinued work on the website, our student articles are still accessible at https://norcalpromisecoalition.org/student-articles/.
Examples of articles written by former student intern Edwin Burgos Perez are:
Taking a Step Back
NCCPC is grateful for the opportunity to take a step back, talk to students about what resources they need and how they want to access them, and invest in internal capacity to manage an editorial timeline focused on student-centered content. We look forward to announcing future student-facing resources.
