About the Title V Grant: Engage, Promote, Connect 

Engage, Promote, and Connect (EPC) is a comprehensive project designed to infuse the Marina Education Center with robust academic and learning support services that will significantly expand MPC’s institutional capacity to serve Hispanic and low-income students. Through responsible planning sensitive to the language, cultural, and socioeconomic obstacles that the majority of MEC students face, the EPC project will ultimately result in an increased certificate and degree completion rates, with emphasis on narrowing the performance and outcome gaps among Hispanic and low-income students.

Designed and modeled after successful interventions and strategies, Engage, Promote, and Connect is organized into three integrated components critical to improving student degree completion and transfer:

Engage, Promote, Connect Grant Activities

• Career Academy 
• Work-Based Learning and Internships
• Development of a centralized space, the Lobo Hub, to provide enhanced & expanded student services
• Tutoring and Academic Success Center (TASC) in Marina