Richmond, Calif., June 11, 2020 – The Making Waves Academy (MWA) Class of 2020 graduated with two special ceremonies: a June 8-9th “Cap &...
As we come to the close of 2020, we have all experienced a year none of us were prepared for, and its effects have...
January 15, 2021
The University of California at Berkeley—known by students and locals simply as “Cal”—looms large as a symbol of educational excellence, recently ranked the top public university and the fourth-best overall in the U.S. News & World…
December 10, 2020
A holistic approach to student support at Making Waves Academy “It’s challenging, since I’m used to being on campus with my door open for…
November 18, 2020
Since the school year started this fall, headlines have been warning that the challenges of attending college during the COVID-19 pandemic are disproportionately impacting…
October 21, 2020
Our guest host Courtney Arguello, the lead career and alumni coach at Making Waves’ college success program (CAP), assembled a group of four alumni who graduated college in 2020 and were able to find full-time jobs despite COVID-19’s impact…
September 23, 2020
For an in-depth view of how COVID-19 is impacting college access and success professionals at the institutional level, we reached out to Karin Elliott,…
July 21, 2020
Enrique Romero received his acceptance letter from Harvard Graduate School of Education and was scheduled to start this summer in Cambridge. Now, he is…