Campus Support

Once on campus, the Act Six support doesn’t end. Campus mentors continue to meet weekly with the Act Six cadre and regularly with each individual scholar throughout the first year. In addition, Act Six provides ongoing leadership training, internships and career opportunities.

It’s working!

National data show that less than half of all African American, Latino and American Indian students who start college ever graduate. The data are equally discouraging for students whose parents didn’t attend college and those from low-income families.

But statistics from the flagship Act Six program in Tacoma, WA tell a much different story for Act Six scholars: 98% of the Act Six scholars who have started the program are still enrolled at Whitworth.

What’s more, all 11 scholars originally selected in the first Tacoma cadre graduated after four years in May 2007.