Opportunities Initiative
An Opportunities initiative focuses on enhancing relationships between The University of Alabama and high school students with lower college attendance rates.
To help increase college persistence and graduation rates among these students, the Division of Opportunities, Connections and Success will provide resources and engagement among Alabama students and families. Working collaboratively with other UA offices, OCS works to expand and enhance the University’s existing academic support and services.
Division Programs
Multicultural Visitation Program University Day
The Multicultural Visitation Program (MVP), is a recruiting and outreach event open to all prospective students and parents. It features the experiences of UA students and shares information about the University through individuals from varying backgrounds.
Our Bama Admitted Tide Day
This event for students admitted to UA provides an opportunity for them and their parents to ask specific questions while experiencing the campus through the lenses of students, alumni, faculty and staff of varying backgrounds.
Partner Programs
Alabama REACH assists students who are foster youth, orphans, homeless or under guardianship/kinship in becoming successful college graduates by providing academic, financial, emotional, and social support in an inclusive and supportive community.
BRIDGE is and academic support program designed to empower students to leverage campus resources for their success and cultivate a community of men who support each other as students and friends.
CrossingPoints provides college-age students with significant disabilities a structured opportunity to experience, explore and develop skills for pursuing postsecondary education.
The University of Alabama First-Gen Programs seek to provide a welcoming community to serve as a resource for first-generation students as they learn to navigate the college experience.
Lucy’s Legacy is a living-learning community and academic support program for women interested in exploring the historical significance and experiences of women of color at The University of Alabama.
This weeklong residential academic camp targets rising female high school seniors to develop their leadership skills and exposing them to business as a major and career path, with an emphasis on areas where women are underrepresented, including leadership.
This camp offers a fun and innovative hands-on approach to help students discover science, technology, engineering and math in the workplace and introduces them to entrepreneurship concepts.
The Student Support Service (SSS) TRIO Program at UA, which is funded by a federal grant through the U.S. Department of Education, provides academic and personal support services to 206 eligible students each year.
Vision Days is a campuswide effort focusing on the college readiness of high school students from rural and underrepresented areas in Alabama.
