You. Just Bolder.

This year marked the center's largest summer yet, with distinct programs serving high school students from the local area and across the country, incoming Princeton first-years, and students from community colleges and public universities in New Jersey. The programs included: Aspiring Scholars and Professionals (ASAP), Freshman Scholars Institute (FSI), Princeton Summer Journalism Program (PSJP), Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP), and Transfer Scholars Initiative (TSI). 

The Emma Bloomberg Center's mission is to support all students - including those from first-generation college, lower-income, transfer, veteran and military backgrounds - in their academic journeys to, through and beyond college.

With the goal of enhancing and expanding Princeton University’s fundamental commitment to the college success of talented students from first-generation, low-income and underrepresented backgrounds, the Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity will bring together the University’s nation-leading initiatives in college access and opportunity, serve as a hub for research and innovation in the field of college access and success, and inform and strengthen similar efforts at colleges and universities across the country.

Princeton University dedicated the Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity on April 4, celebrating the center’s work supporting the success of first-generation, lower-income, veteran and transfer students.

The Center brings together a nation-leading constellation of initiatives in college access and opportunity, including the Freshman Scholars Institute (FSI), the Scholars Institute Fellows Program (SIFP), the University’s Programs for Transfer, Non-Traditional and Veterans Students, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, the Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP), and the Princeton Summer Journalism Program (PSJP). 

Over 360 first-generation college and lower-income (FLi) students from across the state, the country and the world benefited from four programs hosted this summer by Princeton’s Emma Bloomberg Center for Access and Opportunity.

The distinct programs — Freshman Scholars Institute (FSI), Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP), Princeton Summer Journalism Program (PSJP), and Aspiring Scholars and Professionals (ASAP) — are linked by the Bloomberg Center’s mission to support FLi students to, through and beyond college. Participants include high school students, students from two- and four-year colleges and universities in New Jersey, and incoming Princeton first-years and transfer students.