Our CEO, Lyndsey C. Wilson, lends her voice to the April 12th cover story in TIME magazine, which serves as a time capsule that captures the difficulties young people face to finish high school and to go to college. The article highlights a First Star Miami scholar who is now shifting their sights from college to the workforce, shining a light on [...]
The Children and Youth Law Clinic is a key partner, along with UM’s School of Education and Human Development, in First Star University of Miami Academy -- a holistic college prep program for youth impacted by the child welfare system. Foster youth can get tuition waived at Florida state colleges, but lacking the skills, study habits and [...]
The room is filled with possibility, and promise. Ten soon-to-be ninth-graders, members of the University of Miami’s inaugural First Star Academy, are being taught to envision a future most of them would never have thought possible, and to seize their own potential to make it happen. The instructor has scrawled a message on the white [...]
