A college student from Bridgeport will be chosen to go to England next year to learn about human rights at Oxford University.

The student will be part of a group of undergraduates from several Connecticut community colleges that will participate in the Oxford Consortium For Human Rights.

It's a program at Oxford that hosts workshops and seminars on human rights and social justice.

The group welcomed the public on Saturday at the Bijoux Theater in Bridgeport.

"It's a collaboration among university partners to send students who don't otherwise have the opportunity to go to places like Oxford to be part of human rights workshops, and then build the tools to come back to their own communities to help make social change," explained constitutional scholar Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox.

"We have this wonderful collection of people who come every year from Connecticut, some people who have never been out of the U.S. before, and we give them, I hope, a life-changing week in Oxford," said Hugo Slim, of the Oxford Consortium For Human Rights.