<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/westmont-news/helping-students-achieve-their-college-dream.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>11/25/2024</pubDate><title>Helping Students Achieve Their College Dream</title><excerpt>More than 170 high school students and their families attended Affording Your College Dream, a community event that explores the best ways low-income students can fund a college education. The annual event, hosted by Westmont in partnership with several county education initiatives, including Resilience, Education, Adventure, Community and Health (REACH), Program for Effective Access to College (PEAC), Mission Scholars, the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara Unified School District.</excerpt><author>Scott Craig</author><image>
            
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