Portantino to Announce UC Partnership with Historically Black Colleges

Anthony Portantino, Altadena's representative in the state Assembly, will be holding an event next Tuesday to announce a partnership between the University of California system and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

The partnership will start a summer program for students from those universities, which accept significant numbers of students from local area high schools, according to Wendy Gordon, a Portantino spokesman.  

The idea for the partnership came from local community members, according to Gordon.

The event will be held across the street from Pasadena City Hall at the Robinson memorial and the public is invited.

Event attendees will include Pasadena Journal publisher, Joe Hopkins, Robert Davidson, the chair of Morehouse Board of Trustees, University of California Provost Lawrence Pitts and Rich Lyons, the Dean of theHaas School of Business, UC Berkeley. Representatives of the Altadena NAACP will also be in attendance

UC officials released the following information about the program:

"The Summer Institute for Emerging Managers and Leaders will take place annually at one of six UC business and management schools. Each group of Summer Institute fellows will participate in intensive two-week programs, learning from UC graduate business school faculty and CEOs, CFOs and other industry leaders.

For the inaugural sessions this summer at UC Berkeley, 25 participants selected from HBCU first-year and second-year students who apply by March 30 will receive all-expenses-paid fellowships designed to be career-building experiences."