Avery Point program offers college credits, life skills to low-income, first-generation students

It was a sunny July morning, and rather than going to the beach, Senjianah Noze, a rising Norwich Free Academy senior, was in a stuffy classroom on the University of Connecticut Avery Point campus.

At 7:15 a.m., Noze and 119 other NFA students in grades 9-12 had arrived at the NFA campus, where they boarded buses and were whisked to the college campus — as they'd been doing for about two weeks.

On June 16, four days after their school year ended, they began a six-week college access summer program that's part of a yearlong program offered by Avery Point called ConnCAP/Upward Bound. The state- and federally funded program is designed to prepare low-income and potentially first-generation college students to get into college and be successful once they get there. 
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