April 12, 2006 Source: :
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/060412-2198.asp Program gives high school students a step to university Innovative programs enables students with great potential to realize their dreams
Apr 12/06
by Nicolle Wahl (about) (email) University of Toronto president David Naylor and Toronto mayor David Miller will be present for an announcement about a program that encourages high school students to make the leap to post-secondary education. The announcement will be made at Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute, 150 Tapscott Road, at 8:55 a.m. on Tuesday, April 18. The innovative program benefits selected high school students who are considered likely to underperform in or leave school by having them complete a first-year university course for credit. It is administered by the University of Toronto’s Transitional Year Program in partnership with the Toronto District School Board. "It’s been a phenomenal program in enabling students who have great potential to realize their dreams," says Rona Abramovitch, director of the Transitional Year Program at U of T. More than 150 students who have completed the program since it was established have continued on to study at U of T. The program is currently offered in eight Toronto high schools and to students in the Regent Park neighbourhood. Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute, located in the Malvern neighbourhood of Scarborough, is one of the newer host schools, and is designated as a priority area by the Mayor’s Panel on Community Safety. Contact: Elizabeth Raymer,U of T Public Affairs, 416-978-7714; e-mail: elizabeth.raymer@utoronto.ca
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