Abstract

This efforts of the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Access, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to improve the opportunity that low income students of color to attend colleges and universities by assisting public schools in the San Diego California adapt the principles developed at the highly successful Preuss School on the UCSD campus to their local circumstances are treated as an example of organizational learning. CREATE, operating as an “educational fi eld station,” serves as a mediator between the Preuss School and local schools that have expressed an interest in building a college-going culture of learning in order to improve the education of underrepresented minority students.

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