The Miami University Dream Keepers Initiative is a three-year college readiness program targeted at high-achieving multicultural students in urban school districts in the greater Cincinnati Area. Miami University faculty and undergraduates, also known as “near-peers” collaborate with local community educators to engage teams of high school students in a series of after-school workshops and summer experiences designed to develop and enhance three of the four dimensions of college readiness: cognitive strategies, self-management, and college knowledge (the fourth dimension, content knowledge, is the primary focus of the participating schools).