The research project CHOICES:

Access, Equity and Diversity brings a national collaborative of scholars, policy makers and community activists together in a comprehensive, action-oriented examination of the secondary and postsecondary educational opportunities and experiences of African American and Latino students in the state of California.

CHOICES aims to improve the academic choices, experiences and outcomes of African American and Latino students in the California system of higher education by understanding four key transition points in the college attainment process:

1. K-12 experiences and on pre-collegiate academic preparation,
2. High school-to-college transition that affects college choices,
3. Undergraduate collegiate experiences and achievement, and graduate-professional education and post-college outcomes.

Together these stages form an educational process model that begins with the earliest years of school and culminates in advanced degree attainment and viable, productive employment.

The primary goal of CHOICES is to identify factors that are associated with academic and career success for California's African American and Latino students.

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