ConnectUp

Program Summary

Connect Up (CUp) is a proactive, hands on support program with a focus on empowering our first year Black students and assisting them through their educational journey. The goal is to increase retention and success of first year students using a personal approach.

What You Will Receive

Students will be partnered with a coach who will welcome, encourage, and connect students to appropriate LPC student and academic support services. Coaches will help students navigate our college and the myriad of processes and procedures.

Who Can Be A Part Of This Community

The program's focus is on first year Black students who are not part of the Umoja program. The coaches are members of LPC's dedicated staff and professors.

Who Is Eligible

ConnectUp is available to students who are attending Las Positas College for the first time. In other words, if this is your first semester at Las Positas College, this program is for you.

Program Model

Students are invited to join the ConnectUp Canvas site where they will receive announcements on services, activities and events focused on African American/Black students, Black culture, and community. Students will be partnered with a ConnectUp Coach (CUp) until the end of the academic year (i.e. end of Spring).

ConnectUp Contact Information

Coordinator

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Kimberly Burks (Ms. Kim)
kburks@laspositascollege.edu
925-424-1437

Team

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Lyndale Garner, Professor of Early Childhood Education
garner@laspositascollege.edu
925-424-1174

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Terrance Thompson, Transfer Coordinator
tthompson@laspositascollege.edu
(925) 424-1425

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Frances Hui, Librarian
fhui@laspositascollege.edu
(925) 424-1160

To join ConnectUp, please complete this quick form.