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Grants Awarded for Academic Year 2008-2009
Grantee: Abilene Independent School District
Location: Abilene, TX
Project Title: College and Workforce Readiness Project
Amount Funded: $99,575
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
Abilene ISD's Early College program prepares students for success in postsecondary education, the workforce, or military service, providing dual credit college coursework through five local colleges and universities, and offering industry certifications through career and technology education programs. TG grant funds will be used to pay dual credit college tuition and certification exam fees for AISD students. Approximately 125 economically disadvantaged and first-generation college students will benefit from the dual credit program, and an additional 250 students will potentially earn transcripted technical credit.
Grantee: ACCESS College Foundation
Location: Norfolk, VA
Project Title: From College Access to College Retention: Persistence and Academic Success for Under-Represented College Student Populations
Amount Funded: $36,226
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This project seeks to measure the impact of the services provided by ACCESS on persistence in college and college academic success in an effort to measure the effectiveness of continuing to provide services on college campuses and determine if those services should be expanded. TG funds will be used to conduct the program analysis and to provide $10,000 in scholarships for books for 100 minority students who are participating in the retention programs that are part of the evaluation.
Grantee: Associated Colleges of Illinois
Location: Chicago, IL
Project Title: ACI's College Readiness Program
Amount Funded: $120,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
A year-round program of academic enrichment, personal growth opportunities, and hands-on college campus experiences, the College Readiness Program was designed to increase the high school graduation and college enrollment rates of minority, first generation, and low-income students. More than 600 Chicago-area students will benefit from the project. TG funding will be used for materials for a summer academy, workshops, and college tours, with $10,000 going toward scholarships and grants for 30 students.
Grantee: Austin Community College
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: Men Of Distinction
Amount Funded: $86,515
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
The Men Of Distinction (MOD) program will recruit, enroll, retain, and support certificate completion, graduation, and/or transfer to four-year institutions for African-American males enrolled in the Austin Community College District (ACC). MOD will consist of enhanced programs for transition to college, counseling and advising, peer coaching, and connections for and between these students.
Grantee: Breakthrough
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: Program Enhancement
Amount Funded: $125,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
Through this project, Breakthrough aims to increase the effectiveness of their service model and to document best practices in preparation for reaching a growing number of students — beyond the 250 the organization currently accommodates each year. Key project activities include refining, defining, and documenting standards of service and delivery methods and developing standard data collection and reporting procedures. Taking these steps will allow the organization to more effectively monitor and adjust interventions for individual students through the case-management approach and to position itself for growth and sustainability.
Grantee: Brevard Community College
Location: Cocoa, FL
Project Title: College Prep Supplemental Services for High School Students
Amount Funded: $50,723
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
Supplemental services provided through this project include one-on-one mentoring, life-skills presentations, and a one-day Reach-Out Summit. All activities aim to improve college access and success for students underrepresented in higher education. Fifty students will participate in the mentoring program and summit, with an additional 200 students attending a series of motivational/informational talks.
Grantee: Capital IDEA
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: College Prep Academy-Preparing Low-Income Adult Learners for College Success
Amount Funded: $144,327
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
The project will support up to three sessions (fall, spring, summer) of Capital IDEA's College Prep Academy, which provides low-income adult learners with intensive academic preparation so that they can obtain passing scores on the required Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA) and enter college-level courses without or with reduced remedial coursework.
Grantee: Cincinnati Youth Collaborative
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Project Title: AmeriCorps College Access and Mentoring Program
Amount Funded: $80,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
The Cincinnati Youth Collaborative (CYC), by strengthening their school- and community-based college access resource center, is partnering with the Ohio Community Service Council and AmeriCorps to expand college access and mentoring services to low-income and first-generation 11th and 12th grade students in the Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) and to students outside CPS who access CYC's community college resource centers. Direct college access services and information will be provided by recent college graduates trained to mentor first generation and low income students and their families on the college planning and preparation process, including college application completion, scholarship completion, ACT/SAT prep workshops, college tours, parent workshops, Free Application for Federal Student Aid completion, and essay writing workshops The program will impact more than 600 students directly, with the potential to impact more than 7,000 across the city and region.
Grantee: Coastal Bend College
Location: Beeville, TX
Project Title: Every Other Weekend College
Amount Funded: $280,228
Category: Need-based Financial Aid, Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
This program's mission is to eliminate barriers by providing access for adults who have financial difficulties and find the demands of traditional day or evening college programs an obstacle to obtaining an associate of arts or science degree. This new scheduling option will combine both classroom and online instruction to provide full-time enrollment. The degree may be completed within two years with minimal interruptions to job schedules and family responsibilities. The program will serve 75 adult learners.
Grantee: College Forward
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: Coaching for Change: Alternative Support Structures for Low-Income, First-Generation and Undocumented College-Bound Youth
Amount Funded: $54,865
Category: Educational Research
Award Year: 2008-09
This research will enable College Forward to investigate the obstacles, support structures, and remediation strategies that affect underserved students, with a particular emphasis on those from low-income families. The study will include data analysis, online surveys, individual interviews, and focus groups, primarily in Harris, Hays, Travis, and Williamson counties in Texas.
Grantee: College Forward
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: "Getting In" Initiative: College Access for Low-Income Teens & Parents
Amount Funded: $120,294
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
The project will align with the College Board's national "Getting In" Inventory for its non-profit partners, increase communication and collaboration with parents and families, improve peer-to-peer outreach, and utilize full-time AmeriCorps members to serve as trained college coaches to 550 students who attend one of seven central Texas high schools.
Grantee: Communities In Schools of San Antonio
Location: San Antonio, TX
Project Title: Road to College
Amount Funded: $100,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
The Road to College project aims to assist students and parents through the process of postsecondary school selection, financial aid, and the admissions process. The program will provide a college preparatory and academic support center for 200 low-income and/or first-generation college students currently enrolled in Communities In School (CIS-SA) pre-college programs. The program will focus on academic and personal advising, course and major selection, test preparation, and financial literacy.
Grantee: Council for Opportunity in Education
Location: Washington, DC
Project Title: Straight to the Source
Amount Funded: $145,847
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
This outreach and counseling program uses a web-based college preparation tool developed by COE to directly link students from first-generation families with relevant information and contact details for key personnel in the admissions, financial aid, academic support and/or student support services offices of colleges and universities. The program will target 3,430 students participating in Texas TRIO, Upward Bound, and Gear UP programs.
Grantee: Education is Freedom Foundation
Location: Dallas, TX
Project Title: EIF Dallas Program Enhancement
Amount Funded: $150,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
Funding for this project would be used to support the expansion of the Education is Freedom Dallas Program, which offers on-site services at low-performing high schools in the Dallas Independent School District. Overall program objectives include increasing high school graduation and college entry rates through the provision of support, training, and mentoring. The program aims to serve 1,175 students in 2008-09.
Grantee: EduGuide: Partnership for Learning
Location: Lansing, MI
Project Title: EduCoach
Amount Funded: $142,422
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
The EduCoach project will pilot a new Web-based system that will equip a cohort of 1,000 low-income first generation families with personalized roadmaps to college, plus an online and offline community of local support to pursue their own roadmap to success. In addition, it will provide a network of more than 1,000 national college access professionals with new digital strategies and tools from EduGuide's on-going research that they can use in their own programs.
Grantee: Excelencia in Education
Location: Washington, DC
Project Title: Serving Latino Students: Emerging Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)
Amount Funded: $150,000
Category: Educational Research
Award Year: 2008-09
This research will examine the recruitment and retention practices of selected institutions with growing Hispanic enrollment which have not yet reached a 25 percent total undergraduate Hispanic population (which would allow them to qualify as a Hispanic-Serving Institution under the federal guidelines). Specific student service areas will be reviewed to determine if and how institutional culture and services are influenced by the increase of Hispanic enrollment. In addition to collecting and analyzing quantitative data through a survey distributed to these institutions, a case study approach will be used to get additional detail from several of the campuses.
Grantee: Hispanic Scholarship Consortium
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: Scholars to Leaders Initiative
Amount Funded: $107,622
Category: Need-based Financial Aid, Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
Funding for this program will support 53 scholarship renewals and add an additional 20 new scholarships. The HSC Scholars program will also increase its capacity to offer the Leadership Development program to include these 73 scholars, their parents/guardians, and 30 non-HSC students.
Grantee: Holmes County Education Foundation
Location: Millersburg, OH
Project Title: Loan Substitute Program
Amount Funded: $175,000
Category: Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This project awards need-based financial aid to 50 students (high school graduating seniors and nontraditional adult learners) to substitute for one year of Stafford loan funds ($3,500) to enable them to afford to attend college and to reduce student loan debt. Priority is given to first-generation college students with low to moderate family incomes. Participants will also receive college access and advisory services. Recipients will reside in rural Holmes County in the Appalachian region of Ohio.
Grantee: Houston A+ Challenge
Location: Houston, TX
Project Title: Preparing to Dream: Parent & Student Forums
Amount Funded: $142,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
This initiative aims to increase the number of low-income, first generation, and underrepresented minority students in the Greater Houston region enrolled in colleges and universities, by transforming the priorities and culture of school districts to support student access and success. The aim of this project is to establish parent and student forums, focus groups, and town-hall listening sessions to help participants voice opinions and help craft solutions and action steps to address barriers to college access. Ultimately, the project has the potential to affect positive change for the 250,000 students in HISD who are defined as economically disadvantaged.
Grantee: I Know I Can
Location: Columbus, OH
Project Title: College Advising Program
Amount Funded: $120,750
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
This project supplements I KNOW I CAN's existing college advising program by funding two full-time staff as advisors who will work within Columbus City School District middle and high schools. Programming within the 23 middle schools will focus on building aspirations and awareness. For the 18 high schools, it will focus on preparation and the application and financial aid processes.
Grantee: Intercultural Development Research Association
Location: San Antonio, TX
Project Title: Technology-Enhanced Community Neighborhood Organizations (TECNO)
Amount Funded: $154,922
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This project will augment services at four existing community TECNO centers by using technology to provide 400 low-income 11th and 12th grade Hispanic and other minority students and their families to access information on college opportunities and one-on-one and group-mentoring services.
Grantee: Lake/Geauga Educational Assistance Foundation
Location: Concord, OH
Project Title: Middle School Program
Amount Funded: $20,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
This Lake/Geauga Educational Assistance Foundation (LEAF) project will reach all seventh and eighth graders in two counties through newsletters and school newsletter articles, advisor attendance at parent focused school events, an advisor speaking at a parent-teacher organization (PTO) meetings, a resource center for parents, and information sessions available at local libraries. Additionally, LEAF will conduct OASFAA early awareness sessions on school campuses during the academic year, as well as participate in spring high school orientations to explain Ohio Core standards. Overall, the project will serve 7,100 students and their parents.
Grantee: McLennan Community College
Location: Waco, TX
Project Title: Taking College Readiness to the Next Level
Amount Funded: $61,578
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This pilot project will enroll 30 juniors in the AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) program at University High and Waco High in a dual credit introductory psychology course designed to promote successful learning and determine a "best fit" career. Parents of the students will meet as a group with McLennan and Waco ISD counselors, teachers, and administrators to foster effective parent-school communication, and promote strategies for parental support of the students' academic careers.
Grantee: McLennan Community College Foundation
Location: Waco, TX
Project Title: First Generation College Student Initiative
Amount Funded: $21,011
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
As part of this project, 16 graduating seniors from McLennan County high schools will be selected by application for the competitive MCC First Generation College Student Initiative (FGCSI) scholarships. In addition, the FGCSI will be creating promotional materials address early planning for college, distributing these to each school in McLennan County.
Grantee: Mott Community College
Location: Flint, MI
Project Title: Flint College Connection
Amount Funded: $39,504
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This program will provide early college awareness at three public elementary schools and one middle school academy in Flint, Mich., that collectively have the largest concentration of both Hispanic and African American students in the city. In addition, a seven-week (one day per week) college financial preparatory seminar will be conducted at a public high school for junior and senior students with a scholarship fund for five of the participants. The third project component includes college awareness events that will take place at two community-based sites for parents and students. In all, the program will serve 50 juniors and seniors, 200 grade schoolers, and 160+ parents.
Grantee: Northeast Lakeview College
Location: San Antonio, TX
Project Title: Making the College Connection
Amount Funded: $221,302
Category: Need-based Financial Aid, Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
This project aims to increase the number of Guadalupe County graduates from Marion, Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City, and Seguin Independent School Districts who are college ready. The program activities are based on the successful model initiated by Austin Community College in their College Connections program, which includes hands-on, one-on-one student support through each step of the college admissions process. For 2008-09, the project aims to reach 1,400 graduating seniors.
Grantee: Ohio College Access Network
Location: Columbus, OH
Project Title: Ohio Can! Go to College Scholarships
Amount Funded: $190,000
Category: Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This program will provide need-based, last-dollar scholarships to low-income students in Ohio. TG's funding will be combined with other available funds to increase the total number of students served by 11 percent during 2008-09, an increase of 175 students. Scholarships will be for $1,000 per student.
Grantee: Ohio State University
Location: Columbus, OH
Project Title: Blueprint: Ohio
Amount Funded: $108,597
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
This project would expand the Blueprint: College program from five to 16 schools. The program provides college awareness and planning services to parents or other adult advocates (e.g., foster parents, grandparents) of minority, first-generation and low-income fourth and fifth grade students. The program takes place over six weeks and includes various events including five workshops, a Saturday campus visit, academic exploration program, and a graduation ceremony. Overall the program will benefit 150 new families and 250 elementary school students.
Grantee: Sam Houston State University
Location: Huntsville, TX
Project Title: Go Kats Go Center
Amount Funded: $79,250
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
The project brings college planning and financial aid information to a potential audience of several thousand low-income students and families. Targeted areas of service include Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Central and South Texas. Funding will be used to support experienced, qualified college advising staff and to produce bilingual materials to supplement the Go Center services with information on how to plan, prepare, and pay for college.
Grantee: Shorter College Inc.
Location: Rome, GA
Project Title: Open Door Children's Home Scholarship Program
Amount Funded: $23,160
Category: Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
Through this program, Shorter College will partner with the Open Door Children's Home (a facility for dependent, neglected and/or abused children) to provide the opportunity for a college education to students who might not otherwise have the resources to attend. This program will provide one year of full tuition, room and board, and a book stipend for two students.
Grantee: South Texas College
Location: McAllen, TX
Project Title: Dual Enrollment Medical Science Academy
Amount Funded: $170,652
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This project aims to increase the number of Hispanic students entering the engineering and medical science fields through the expansion and improvement of the Dual Enrollment Engineering Academy and the Dual Enrollment Medical Science Academy to the Pecan Campus in McAllen, Texas. By participating in the academy, students can earn an associate degree at the same time they graduate from high school. The program aims to serve more than 100 students.
Grantee: Tallahassee Community College Foundation
Location: Tallahassee, FL
Project Title: Pilot Program to Increase Nontraditional/Adult Learners Success through Scholarships
Amount Funded: $100,000
Category: Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This project will improve access to postsecondary education for nontraditional/adult learners and first-generation students who have demonstrated financial need. The program will award 100 students an annual grants of $2,000. In addition, students will receive support from counselors, advisors and intensive student success services including extra tutoring and a college success course.
Grantee: Texas A&M International University
Location: Laredo, TX
Project Title: College Connection
Amount Funded: $93,687
Category: Need-based Financial Aid, Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
This project will provide $65,200 in need-based aid for 400 dual enrollment students and help support Texas A&M International University's (TAMIU) College Connection initiative. The remaining funds will support the program coordinator for the College Connection program, who will help increase program activities to serve approximately 6,000 students.
Grantee: Texas A&M University
Location: College Station, TX
Project Title: Aggie Summer Institute 2009
Amount Funded: $55,000
Category: Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
The program will provide 10 $500 scholarships for senior college-bound students in seven regions (College Station, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Houston, Laredo, San Antonio, and the Rio Grande Valley) who successfully complete the Aggie Summer Institute program. Scholarship recipients may use the funds at any Texas accredited institution of higher education.
Grantee: Texas Tech University
Location: Lubbock, TX
Project Title: PEGASUS First Generation College Student First Year Transition Program
Amount Funded: $23,506
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
The PEGASUS (Pioneers in Education: Generations Achieving Scholarship and Unprecedented Success) is an academic advising, mentoring, and outreach program supporting first-generation college students to attain a college education. TG funding will be used to hire an additional 15 FGC mentors, allowing PEGASUS program assistants to work additional hours each week to keep up with program tasks.
Grantee: Texas Tech University
Location: Lubbock, TX
Project Title: PEGASUS First Generation College Student Scholarship Program
Amount Funded: $30,000
Category: Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
The PEGASUS (Pioneers in Education: Generations Achieving Scholarship and Unprecedented Success) is an academic advising, mentoring, and outreach program supporting first-generation college students to attain a college education. Funding will be used to provide $750-a-semester scholarships to 40 FGC students based on participation in the fall 2008 and spring 2009 semesters.
Grantee: Texas Wesleyan University
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Project Title: Pathways to Success
Amount Funded: $82,550
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This program aims to assist students in becoming "college ready" and "world ready" by 1) providing need-based aid for underrepresented students at risk of not completing a college degree due to financial barriers; 2) expanding pre-collegiate outreach services through the continuing support for one existing Go Centers; 3) providing additional academic support and services through a math lab for current college students challenged by algebra courses and a free summer bridge program for those underprepared for algebra; 4) piloting a summer bridge program in reading for under-prepared students and 5) implementing "The Learning Games" student success stations. Approximately 60 students will benefit from the need-based aid component of the program, with 145 additional students participating in the direct services provided through the project.
Grantee: University & College Access Network of Richland County
Location: Mansfield, OH
Project Title: Using the ACT PLAN Assessment to Increase Postsecondary Aspiration and Readiness
Amount Funded: $16,560
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
This project aims to use the ACT PLAN assessment to increase postsecondary readiness in 10th grade students. TG funding will provide registration and materials for 1,800 student to participate. Test results will help school administrators, guidance counselors, teachers, students, and parents analyze the links between instruction and academic skill development in order to more adequately prepare students to be successful in graduating from high school and pursuing higher education.
Grantee: University of Houston Law Foundation
Location: Houston, TX
Project Title: UH Prelaw Program Initiative
Amount Funded: $83,374
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This initiative aims to increase and improve the flow of Houston undergraduates and recent graduates into law school. Efforts will include an intense month-long summer pre-law institute, regular Saturday prelaw academy programs, law school application assistance, and improved institutional prelaw student programming in area colleges. Programs are targeted for first-generation and underrepresented students. It is projected that 35 students will participate in the 2008-09 program, with eventual enrollment reaching more than 100. TG funds will be used primarily to support student stipends, LSAT preparation materials, and instructional materials.
Grantee: University of Houston - Downtown
Location: Houston, TX
Project Title: Connections: A Mentoring Program
Amount Funded: $66,950
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This pilot program will recruit 75 participants from the Freshman Summer Success Program (a weeklong summer boot camp program, institutionalized at UHD after its inception with 2006 TG grant funding), and assign each a mentor. Twenty-five faculty and staff will attend a workshop to hone their skills as mentors, and each will be assigned to work throughout the semester with three students, helping improve their acculturation, knowledge of campus resources, academic progress monitoring, and development of plans toward educational goals.
Grantee: University of North Texas
Location: Denton, TX
Project Title: Student to Student Financial Success Project
Amount Funded: $59,365
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This student-centered, student-driven project will provide students the opportunity to learn important money management skills from trained peer money management mentors. The S2S Project will provide students with four primary services to enhance their money management skills and knowledge: personal peer financial sessions, workshops, skills training, and an online training module. The project team will work closely with the university's TRIO center and 650 participants in the Emerald Eagle Scholars program.
Grantee: University of North Texas Health Science Center
Location: Ft. Worth, TX
Project Title: Performance and Retention Enhancement via Peers
Amount Funded: $120,900
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This project creates a new peer tutoring program to improve the level of tutoring and academic enhancement resources available to academically at-risk students. Approximately 200 students will participate, with the project's ultimate goal being the retention and graduation of a greater number of students as qualified health care providers.
Grantee: University of Texas at Austin
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: Central Texas Student Futures (Project Cycle 4)
Amount Funded: $200,000
Category: Educational Research
Award Year: 2008-09
This project builds on the previous two cycles of data gathering and analysis that were partially funded by TG. The overall goal is to identify the numbers and types of Central Texas high school graduates who are engaged in further education and/or the workforce and to continue to identify those factors statistically associated with successful transitions from high school.
Grantee: University of Texas at Austin
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: Chembridge
Amount Funded: $45,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
Chembridge is a Web-based dual-credit chemistry program at the University of Texas at Austin that serves approximately 300 underrepresented, economically disadvantaged 11th and 12th grade students at participating high schools each year. The students are enrolled in a dual-credit Chemistry course, the successful completion of which earns both six hours of college credit and two semesters of high school science credit. The program is only offered to schools with a predominantly minority population.
Grantee: University of Texas Medical Branch
Location: Galveston, TX
Project Title: Medical Careers Diversity Program (MCDP): Building Bridges to Success
Amount Funded: $239,613
Category: Need-based Financial Aid, Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
This program will focus on college retention and graduation, as well as increasing general competitiveness of students traditionally underrepresented in medical school. These goals will be addressed by implementing an aggressive five-week academic summer enrichment program which will allow 60 students (sophomores, juniors, and seniors) to engage in activities specifically designed to enhance their academic achievement and performance in areas crucial to undergraduate studies and admission to medical school.
Grantee: University of Texas System
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: College Access Outreach Program
Amount Funded: $177,697
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
The program provides outreach efforts in 130 Texas high schools identified has having a demographic profile of low college-attendance rates combined with high financial need. Funding will support improvements to two scholarship programs: (1) for first-generation college students and (2) a parent-to-student scholarship. Approximately 50,000 students, 1,000 parents, and 50 guidance counselors will be served through this program.
Grantee: University of Texas-Pan American
Location: Edinburg, TX
Project Title: University Migrant Mobile Access Center (UMMAC)
Amount Funded: $64,135
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
The project will provide direct services to more than 3,700 migrant farm worker students and their parents in 25 high schools and middle schools located in the Region I Education Service Center area by providing college outreach services through 50 planned school and community events. The outreach services will utilize the University of Texas-Pan American's Mobile Go Center to deliver information sessions and online processes regarding college attendance and selection, career choice, financial aid and scholarship applications, and parental orientation and education regarding college.
Grantee: University of the Incarnate Word
Location: San Antonio, TX
Project Title: Spotlight on Student Success
Amount Funded: $152,409
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This program will allow the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) to implement a student engagement tracking system, which will allow UIW's Student Success area to spotlight both at-risk and success factors for incoming students, and implement early, appropriate interventions. Programs for "spotlighted" students will include a summer bridge program, student tutoring and residential assistants, and financial literacy training sessions. Through both components of this project, UIW will be able to serve 760 students.
Grantee: Vernon College
Location: Wichita Falls, TX
Project Title: Early College Start
Amount Funded: $100,000
Category: Need-based Financial Aid, Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
This project aims to build on the success of the Early College Start program by providing funding for 100 scholarships that will enable a greater number of students to participate in dual credit college courses. The primary beneficiaries will be first-generation college students from low- to moderate-income families. In addition to the scholarships, students will also receive assistance in the college application and financial aid processes.
Grantee: Victoria College
Location: Victoria, TX
Project Title: Lighthouse Initiative Summer Bridge Program
Amount Funded: $91,715
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families, Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2008-09
This program continues the partnership established with Victoria ISD, Bloomington ISD, Gonzales ISD, and Industrial ISD to provide additional academic assistance to students who have not met the college readiness standards as defined by the Texas Higher Education Assessment. Additional instruction in math, English, and reading will be offered in a summer course setting. The program also includes a need-based aid component of $300 scholarships awarded to students who successfully complete the summer work. For 2008-09, VC intends to serve at least 128 students through this initiative.
Grantee: Walsh University
Location: North Canton, OH
Project Title: Improving Student Retention through Effective Tutoring
Amount Funded: $50,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2008-09
This project will provide training for 25-40 students who will serve as tutors in reading, writing and math. Ultimately, the project aims to address academic preparation for approximately 700 first-generation and low-income students who would benefit from additional tutoring services.
