Victor Garcia, Program Officer

Victor Garcia joined the College Access Foundation program staff in May, 2010.

Victor has spent more than a decade promoting college opportunity among low-income and first-generation students in California. Most recently, he directed outreach for the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at the University of Southern California (USC), where he coordinated a college access mentoring program and an intensive summer writing seminar for low-income students from the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Earlier in his career, Victor served as program coordinator for the Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program at California State University, Dominguez Hills; managed transfer outreach initiatives for the Educational Partnership Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz; and served students through the CalWORKs program at two colleges within the Los Angeles Community College District.

Victor has presented and participated in panels at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) and the National College Access Network (NCAN), and he is a member of Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA).

A native of rural Tulare County in California’s Central San Joaquin Valley, Victor earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California Santa Cruz and a master’s degree in Public Administration from California State University Long Beach.  This year, he will earn a doctorate in education from USC; his doctoral research focuses on promoting student engagement through a college-themed video game being developed at USC.
 

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