HighView’s four-year College-to-Career Accelerator supports highly motivated, low-income Colorado students from freshman year through first job, building the skills, networks, and work experience that turn degrees into life-changing economic mobility.
College acceptance is not the finish line. For first-generation and low-income students, the hardest part often comes next: turning a degree into a strong first job.
Many students do everything right: they work hard, get good grades, and persist through college graduation. But when it comes time to secure internships and full-time roles, they are competing in a system built around informal networks, prior work experience, professional confidence, and insider knowledge.
HighView closes that gap by helping students build the core advantages many students from well-connected families often inherit.
Students often lack access to the relationships that lead to internships, referrals, mentors, and first jobs.
Early career roles increasingly expect prior work experience, which favors students with inherited networks and unpaid resume-building opportunities.
Students need repeated exposure to professional spaces to build fluency, belonging, and readiness.
HighView students do not build career readiness in a classroom. They build it inside the workplaces where high-opportunity careers begin.
Through year-round programming inside Colorado’s top companies, our College-to-Career Accelerator builds durable skills, AI fluency, social capital, and real-world experience across all four years of college.
Durable Skills + AI
Through workshops and AI training, students develop the competencies hiring managers prioritize: effective communication, critical thinking, problem solving, professionalism, workplace navigation, and applied AI fluency.
Social Capital
Onsite corporate immersion sessions, 1:1 mentorship, and networking events build valuable relationships and confidence while teaching students the unspoken norms for navigating professional spaces.
Real-World Experience
Paid internships, projects, micro-internships, and job shadows enable students to graduate with relevant work experience, stronger resumes, professional references, and clear preparation for full-time roles.
Freshman Year
Students build confidence, explore career pathways, begin AI fluency training, and connect with the HighView college community.
Sophomore Year
Students strengthen communication, professionalism, networking, and workplace navigation skills while completing project-based work and early career experiences.
Junior Year
Students pursue formal paid internships, job shadows, career-aligned mentoring, and deeper employer engagement.
Senior Year
Students receive full-time job placement support, including interview preparation, direct pipelines into employer partners, and access to the HighView alumni network.
HighView students spend time in the offices of Colorado's leading companies, enabling them to build their professional networks, skills and the confidence they need to launch into life-changing careers.
HighView graduates are entering high-mobility fields including software engineering, accounting, tech sales, marketing, construction management, and business operations.
College Persistence
vs. 40 to 60% of first-generation and low-income peers at the same Colorado universities
Career Placement
into full-time roles in business, tech, STEM, and industries with strong earning upside
Average Starting Salary
nearly 50% higher than the national median for first-generation graduates
Our students don’t prepare for careers from the outside looking in. They step inside Colorado’s top workplaces to build the readiness, confidence, and relationships required for high-opportunity careers.
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Pipeline + college partners
HighView combines deep student support with employer-embedded programming and measurable outcomes. Our model helps students not only persist through college, but launch into careers that build wealth, confidence, and long-term economic mobility.
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