The UCSB- HBCU Scholars in Linguistics program establishes a partnership between UCSB and HBCU faculty to establish a pathway for HBCU students to enroll in UCSB’s graduate program in linguistics. The long-term goal of the project is to establish a sustainable model for cross-campus collaborations that broaden participation in linguistics and related fields. Since linguistics is not offered as a major at the HBCUs, a central goal of the project is to raise students’ awareness of and interest in linguistics as a direction for graduate study.