Programs
Our Initiatives
The Center for Migrant Education鈥檚 programs are designed to assist migrant farmworkers and their children in the pursuit of educational opportunities. We do so by providing services and support for students from farmworker families such as individuals who have dropped out of school, students transitioning into and completing their first year of college and students majoring in education.
Among the Center's initiatives are the following:
- Research and demonstration of effective practices to assist students from farmworker
backgrounds who have dropped out of school in completing high school and transitioning
to post-secondary settings.
- With the university and surrounding community as a "learning laboratory," migrant students from throughout Florida who have dropped out of school work toward their high school diplomas and acquire skills in academic, social, residential, and vocational areas that will equip them to choose the course of their future.
- To date, more than 1,600 students from migrant and seasonal farmworker families have
participated in the High School Equivalency Program (HEP), which is funded through the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Migrant Education.
- Research and demonstration of effective practices to recruit and support students from migrant and seasonal farmworker famil