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Today’s introduction comes from Jennifer Medina, a national correspondent based in Los Angeles.

Janet Napolitano, the University of California president, faced a room of seniors at West Adams Preparatory High School in Los Angeles and tried to sell them on a simple idea: they could make it to one of the system’s prestigious campuses.

“You can have a successful college experience at any one of our campuses,” Ms. Napolitano said. “We want you to come.”

This fall, the campus is starting an intensive effort to offer financial and academic counseling to students who represent the first generation in their families to attend college. The program will connect them to faculty members who were also first-generation students — there are roughly 900 such faculty members across the system’s 10 campuses.