ALTA (Access Language Through Academics): Bridge to Success

FAIN: ASB-292283-23

La Salle University (Philadelphia, PA 19141-1108)
Joanne Woods (Project Director: November 2022 to present)

A 15-month project to develop and offer a free humanities-rich bridge program supporting Spanish-speaking students in enhancing their English proficiency and college readiness

La Salle University has designed the ALTA Program to help Spanish-dominant ELLs acquire the proficiency in English that they need to enter an associate degree program. We seek to offer a cohort of 20 ALTA students a free bridge program each year during the fall semester. During this 15-week period, our highly-trained instructors will develop all four of students’ modalities in English, reading, writing, listening, and speaking, in an inclusive learning environment so the students can enroll into our specialized associate degree program for more-advanced ELLs called BUSCA (Bilingual Undergraduate Studies for Collegiate Advancement).