The Los Angeles College Promise (LACP) serves first-time and returning full-time community college students with a comprehensive strategy designed to support students to complete a higher education degree and/or a workforce certificate. We help students "start right" on their way to "ending right" with a degree, university transfer or workforce certificate in a timely, efficient manner. It is a partnership between Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD), Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), City of Los Angeles, UNITE LA and private philanthropy.
Important aspects of the Promise are waived tuition for the first two years of college, priority enrollment, additional financial support, and a dedicated support team providing a wide array of academic and student support services.
For questions, please contact asklacp@laccd.edu.
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The Los Angeles College Promise benefits Los Angeles, our region, and California by:
Early outreach & engagement for Los Angeles County students
First-year experience
Research shows that full-time enrollment is a key factor in postsecondary student success. California faces an estimated shortage of one million college-educated workers who are needed to sustain the state's workforce.
The L.A. College Promise is already demonstrating powerful results with the inaugural students enrolled in the program who are now attending classes at LACCD's nine community colleges.
The comparison group is first-time, full-time students in 2016 from LAUSD schools.