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Grants Awarded for Academic Year 2009-2010
Grantee: Abilene Independent School District
Location: Abilene, TX
Project Title: College and Workforce Readiness Project — Phase II
Amount Funded: $130,145
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
This program enables Abilene Independent School District to offer dual credit college courses through five local colleges and universities and industry certifications through career and technology programs. Grant funds will be used to offset the tuition fees and exam costs for the students involved.
Grantee: ACCESS College Foundation
Location: Norfolk, VA
Project Title: Year Two — From College Access to College Retention
Amount Funded: $41,833
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
This project provides advisory services and need-based financial aid for underrepresented college students at six colleges and universities with the goal of fostering retention and student success. Services will include monitoring of academic progress, financial literacy, and additional scholarship application assistance. The majority of TG funds ($40,000) will be used for need-based aid awards for 100 students.
Grantee: Admission Possible
Location: St. Paul, MN
Project Title: Admission Possible
Amount Funded: $125,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This project will enhance Admission Possible services, which have recently expanded to the Milwaukee area. Approximately 50 junior and senior students are expected to participate in Milwaukee in 2009-10, and they will receive services in test preparation, college exploration, financial aid and admissions application processes, and transitioning to college. Students also participate in community service projects as a part of the programming. All participating students are from low-income families, and 98% are from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education.
Grantee: Aims Community College
Location: Greeley, CO
Project Title: Emerging Scholars Expansion
Amount Funded: $115,750
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
With the goal of retaining students and improving their success in class, this project provides peer mentoring, advising and additional resources to underrepresented students who need remediation. Program participants have demonstrated higher grade point averages, higher individual grades, and greater retention rates when compared with similar students not involved in the program. TG funds will be used to expand the program to serve 200 additional students.
Grantee: Associated Colleges of Illinois
Location: Chicago, IL
Project Title: Intensive Science and Math Experience
Amount Funded: $120,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This project will serve 100 low-income, first-generation, or minority students through an after-school and weekend program held on college campuses and at museums. The program's focus is to build a strong and more diverse national workforce in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through providing STEM content knowledge, academic and workforce skills and behaviors, college access skills, and STEM career cluster knowledge.
Grantee: Austin Community College District
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: ACC Helping to Inspire Excellence and Value in Education (ACCHIEVE)
Amount Funded: $105,597
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
Project ACC Achieve aims to increase the retention, performance, and persistence rate of at least 750 low to moderate income, first generation, or underrepresented populations (Hispanic and African-American) who are academically underprepared in two (2) or more basic skills (reading, writing, or math) areas as indicated upon initial assessment. High risk students are identified, monitored, and supported through an individualized holistic approach (counseling, academic coaching/case management), utilizing a structured web-based data entry system.
Grantee: A Call To College
Location: Newark, OH
Project Title: Newark PEAK Program
Amount Funded: $66,275
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This program will benefit approximately 1,000 second and eighth graders in the Newark City School District by encouraging students to explore careers and the connections between careers and postsecondary education. Activities will also include financial literacy and college exploration activities. The program will involve nearly 100 college students from Central Ohio Technical College, Denison University, and The Ohio State University at Newark along with Americorps VISTA volunteers to implement the activities involved.
Grantee: Capital IDEA
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: Central Texas Healthcare Education Initiative
Amount Funded: $165,000
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
This project supports one year of education and supportive services for approximately 450 low-income, adult students as they work towards completing a degree and/or certification in a healthcare field. Upon completion of the program, students generally more than triple their pre-enrollment earnings, having been prepared for success in a high-demand, high-wage career.
Grantee: Cincinnati Youth Collaborative
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Project Title: Project REACH and the REACHout Alumni Program
Amount Funded: $103,700
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This project seeks to assist 385 outbound seniors who often don't have the necessary support systems to make a successful transition to college. Eighty-five program alumni will provide services that include activities, events, communication and campus network to help retain these students through the first year of postsecondary education.
Grantee: City University of Seattle
Location: Bellevue, WA
Project Title: Diversity Scholars Program
Amount Funded: $98,750
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
The Diversity Scholars Program aims to prepare people of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds to enter and remain in the teaching field. The program provides need-based financial aid and support services that include mentoring, tutoring and job placement assistance. Twenty diversity scholars are identified each year and will directly benefit from the program along with hundreds of students in public schools who will also benefit indirectly.
Grantee: The College Crusade of Rhode Island
Location: Providence, RI
Project Title: RI Gear Up
Amount Funded: $105,982
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
Funding for this project supports three intensive components of College Crusade of Rhode Island's college readiness program: (1) the sumer crusade program for 108 middle school students, which focuses on academic success skills; (2) a weekend literacy program for 60 sixth grade students; and (3) an SAT preparation program for 45 11th grade students. All participating students are low-income and 88 percent are from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education.
Grantee: College Forward
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: "Getting Through" Initiative: College Success for Low-Income Students
Amount Funded: $78,170
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This project will enhance existing college retention programming to improve the persistence and six-year graduation rates of low-income and first-generation students. Specific enhancements include providing financial literacy assistance and training, additional study skills, transfer strategies, and "life after college" workshops, and creating scholar chapters at colleges with multiple program alumni. The program will serve more than 425 low-income students during 2009-10.
Grantee: College Forward
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: Campus by Campus — Partnership Building for College Access
Amount Funded: $199,055
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
"Campus by Campus: Partnership-building for College Access," will strengthen College Forward's partnerships and collaborations with local high schools to more effectively serve low-income and first-generation students in Central Texas. Approximately 920 high school juniors and seniors will benefit from this program through college preparation services, peer mentoring, and parental engagement activities.
Grantee: College Horizons, Inc.
Location: Pena Blanca, NM
Project Title: College Horizons & Graduate Horizons
Amount Funded: $290,940
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This program aims to increase the higher education attainment of Native American students by providing pre-college and pre-graduate access summer programs, as well as a mentoring and follow-up retention program to American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian high school and college students/graduates from across the nation. In all, more than 270 students and 225 counselors representing over 50 Tribal Nations from across the U.S. will participate in the program.
Grantee: Columbia College Chicago
Location: Chicago, IL
Project Title: Arts towards Undergraduate Preparation (ArtUP)
Amount Funded: $125,000
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
ArtUp is an innovative, arts-based college readiness program with the goal of increasing the number of African American and Latino students in higher education. The program will serve 225 high school students directly and an additional 120 individuals indirectly. Programming will include career seminars to expose students to successful role models in the arts and media, college readiness courses to prepare students to enter and succeed in college, opportunities to improve skills and develop portfolio pieces for both admissions and scholarship applications. Of the total grant amount awarded, $25,000 will be used for need-based aid.
Grantee: Comer Science & Education Foundation
Location: Chicago, IL
Project Title: College Readiness Program
Amount Funded: $73,785
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This program will expand existing services to reach a total of 75 low-income, first-generation students to receive comprehensive academic and social support services with the goal of raising students' awareness of educational and professional opportunities. The program serves students in the Revere Community on the south side of Chicago. The majority of TG funds will support program costs associated with the academic support (tutoring) provided through the project.
Grantee: Con Mi MADRE
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: Con Mi MADRE
Amount Funded: $76,480
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
Con Mi MADRE's provides pre-collegiate outreach services and improves the pathway to higher education for Hispanic girls who have the potential to succeed in college before they make educational and social choices that may jeopardize their future. As a requirement of the program, both the student and her mother (or another adult if no mother is present or able to attend) must commit to achieving the goals outlined. For 2009-10, approximately 1,400 individuals will participate (700 mother-daughter teams). Students range from 6th through 12th grades.
Grantee: Council for Opportunity in Education
Location: Washington, DC
Project Title: Moving Beyond Transfer: Success for Low-Income, First-Generation Students at Four-Year Institutions Post-Transfer
Amount Funded: $155,400
Category: Educational Research
Award Year: 2009-10
This project builds on recent Pell Institute research which studied and documented practices of six community colleges in Texas that performed "better than expected" in transferring low-income and first-generation students. The new research will examine the transfer process from the four-year institution's perspective, studying the impact of the institutional practices that four-year institutions implement on their end of the articulation agreements to support the persistence and graduation of low-income, first-generation students who have transferred to their college or university.
Grantee: Denver Scholarship Foundation
Location: Denver, CO
Project Title: College Access: North and West High Schools
Amount Funded: $100,000
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
This project would expand pre-college outreach programming to serve 9th grade students and strengthen existing programs for seniors at two high schools in Denver where two-thirds of students are eligible to receive free or reduced-cost lunch and 77 percent are from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education. Approximately $14,000 of TG funding requested will be used for need-based aid to seniors.
Grantee: Dynamy
Location: Worcester, MA
Project Title: Youth Academy
Amount Funded: $75,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
Youth Academy is a college access and leadership program for promising, low-income Worcester public high school students, a population traditionally underserved at the postsecondary level. The program serves 75 students each year through mentoring, internships, outdoor challenge experiences, academic enrichment, tutoring, college readiness, and leadership and character development. The program is offered to students at no cost. Youth Academy graduates who are accepted into any of eight local colleges are guaranteed an institutional scholarship for full tuition, renewable for four years.
Grantee: Education is Freedom Foundation
Location: Dallas, TX
Project Title: Dallas Outcomes and Process Evaluation
Amount Funded: $128,100
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This project aims to assist EIF Dallas in strengthening the organization's outcomes evaluation with more rigorous data collection and analysis. Specifically, the evaluation will examine the practices and performance measures of EIF in preparing low-income, underrepresented students from Dallas ISD schools to be successful in postsecondary education. The project will also involve developing and disseminating a "How-to Manual" for college access and readiness among low-income, urban students based on the successes and lessons learned from the EIF program.
Grantee: Excelencia in Education
Location: Washington, DC
Project Title: Reality Check: Latinos Pay for College at Texas Border Institutions
Amount Funded: $138,210
Category: Educational Research
Award Year: 2009-10
This study will examine the institutional financial aid practices of eight institutions along the Texas/Mexico border within the context of state and national policy. Because Latinos are a growing but underrepresented group in higher education, there is a need to better understand institutional practices in financial assistance that support Latino student access, persistence and completion. The study will focus on institutions with high concentrations of Hispanics and which are located in very low-income communities and what those institutions are doing to address the intersection of college costs, institutional capacity and financial aid strategies.
Grantee: Foundation Communities
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: Free Minds Project
Amount Funded: $42,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
Through offering an interdisciplinary humanities course and enrichment activities, Free Minds promotes the intellectual growth and student success of low- to moderate-income adult learners, preparing them for fuller participation in the cultural, economic, and political life of our society. The project also creates a bridge to enrollment in all forms of higher education through the partnerships within the project between the Humanities Institute at UT-Austin, Austin Community College, Camp Fire USA, Austin Public Library, and Austin Parks and Recreation. Students who complete the program earn six credit hours from ACC. Books, tuition, and course expenses are covered by the program at no cost to students. Academic skills training, writing tutorials, and college preparation workshops are provided, in addition to child care subsidies, transportation costs, and a meal prior to each class.
Grantee: Franklin & Marshall College
Location: Lancaster, PA
Project Title: Expanding College Access in Rural Pennsylvania
Amount Funded: $158,741
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
Franklin & Marshall College's Keystone College Advising Corps aims to increase postsecondary matriculation rates among underserved high school students from low- to moderate-income families in rural south-central Pennsylvania. Through this program eight recent graduates of partner institutions will work with 8,000 prospective first-generation college students. TG funding will support four additional advisers, to serve an additional 4,600 more students at four new target high schools in 2009-10.
Grantee: Fulfillment Fund
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Project Title: College Access & Success Model
Amount Funded: $100,000
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
This program supports college access, acceptance and completion among first-generation, low-income, and minority students in urban Los Angeles. Programming includes college exposure events, one-on-one college counseling, and scholarship assistance services. TG funding will assist with providing regional college tours, a college fair, and financial aid awareness services to approximately 650 juniors and seniors, in addition to $40,000 in need-based aid awards for 26 college students.
Grantee: Houston Community College
Location: Houston, TX
Project Title: College Connection
Amount Funded: $81,593
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
The College Connection program enables high school students to pursue college-level coursework during their senior year. For 2009-10, HCC plans to pilot the program with Wheatley High School in the Houston Independent School District, a school that serves a predominantly low-income population and has one of the lowest college-going rates in Texas. The program will serve 20 students enrolled in the Health Information Analysis Certificate program, concluding with a six-week summer practicum. Students completing the full program will be awarded a $1,000 scholarship to pursue further college-level education.
Grantee: Kent State University
Location: Kent, OH
Project Title: Bridges to a College Education
Amount Funded: $99,160
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
Bridges to a College Education is designed to promote recruitment and retention of adult students with GEDs and first-generation college students. The project will provide scholarship support (tuition, fees, and books) for 20 current students at Kent State University. To earn this support, scholarship recipients will develop an outreach project, which will include development of informational materials and in-person presentations for (a) adult education programs and (b) high schools with high populations of potential first-generation students. Approximately $88,000 of TG funding is designated for need-based aid.
Grantee: McLennan Community College Foundation
Location: Waco, TX
Project Title: Expanding College Financial Assistance to the Underserved
Amount Funded: $100,000
Category: Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2009-10
This project will establish and pilot a new scholarship category for the MCC Foundation: book scholarships of up to $500 for part-time students. Since its inception MCC has not awarded scholarships to students taking less than 12 semester hours; however, the recent economic conditions have led to more request for assistance and more students choosing to attend part time. Priority will be given to students enrolled for at least 6 hours with a $0 EFC and who are pursuing a recognized certificate or degree program.
Grantee: National Association for College Admission Counseling
Location: Arlington, VA
Project Title: Guiding the Way to Higher Education: Families, Counselors & Communities Together (FCCT)
Amount Funded: $52,268
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This project will provide a two-day train-the-trainer workshop for 25 counselors serving urban and rural middle and high schools in Virginia, using the FCCT early college awareness curriculum. Those trained will be charged with conducting 50 workshops (each with anticipated audiences of 40 students from low- to moderate-income families and their parents) in their own communities and schools.
Grantee: National College Access Network Inc.
Location: Washington, DC
Project Title: National Advisor Training for College Access Programs
Amount Funded: $147,710
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
Through this initiative, NCAN will conduct a national training for both novice and veteran college access program advisors to enhance their skills and to share effective strategies that will benefit the students, parents, and adult learners they are charged to advise. Programming will include a range of topics including academic preparation, standardized testing, admissions process, financial aid, scholarship applications, parental involvement, career preparation, and ethical issues. Each participant will be given a pre- and post-assessment, access to follow-up, bi-monthly webinars, and an advisor manual. In addition, ALL NCAN member programs will receive a DVD of the training to be used in-house for professional development.
Grantee: Ohio Appalachian Center for Higher Education
Location: Portsmouth, OH
Project Title: Seeds 4 Success
Amount Funded: $243,130
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This new initiative will encourage early-college awareness and preparation among families in a high-need, rural Appalachian region. Based on national P-16 pipeline research, the program targets five key transition points within six school districts over 32 counties: early elementary (awareness, college savings); 6th grade (career/college exploration); 8th grade (high school readiness); 10th grade (college readiness); and 12th grade (college application).
Grantee: Oregon Student Assistance Commission
Location: Eugene, OR
Project Title: ASPIRE Partnership/Challenge Grants
Amount Funded: $74,648
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This project will support 21 Oregon ASPIRE sites where more than 50 percent of students qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. Funding will support training for 21 site coordinators and volunteer advisors who will offer one-on-one mentoring, classroom presentations, monthly podcasts, e-mentoring, workshops, and drop-in help for low-income students.
Grantee: Otterbein College
Location: Columbus, OH
Project Title: Ubuntu College Clubs
Amount Funded: $90,444
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
Ubuntu College Clubs are an investment in economically disadvantaged urban youth in the Columbus City School District. Directed by Otterbein faculty in the Center for Community Engagement, the program joins 25 Otterbein students with 75 pre-college students, nearly all first-generation. The college students learn and practice mentoring skills; the high school students write a common book about their experience, visit colleges and attend college information sessions held after school. Approximately $21,000 of TG's funding for this program will provide need-based aid for three students who complete the program and transition to higher education.
Grantee: Philadelphia Futures for Youth
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Project Title: Sponsor-a-Scholar Freshman Recruitment and On-boarding
Amount Funded: $71,435
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
Philadelphia Futures prepares low-income, first-generation-to-college students attending Philadelphia's most underperforming high schools to enter and succeed in college by providing a proven model of mentoring, academic enrichment, college guidance, financial incentives and staff support. TG funding will be used to design, test, and evaluate new recruiting strategies for ninth grade students that include print materials, events, orientation and freshman seminar.
Grantee: Quality of Life Foundation of Austin/Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: Central Texas Student Futures Project — Multivariate Analysis
Amount Funded: $200,000
Category: Educational Research
Award Year: 2009-10
The Central Texas Student Futures Project tracks the progress of Central Texas high school graduates as they move on to further education and the workforce. Its purpose is two fold: (1) to determine what local high school graduates are doing after high school and how a variety of educational, personal, and financial factors are related to graduates' success in postsecondary education and the workforce, and (2) to foster best practices that enable the region's ISDs to increase the number of graduates who obtain the credentials required by employers.
Grantee: Sam Houston State University
Location: Huntsville, TX
Project Title: Mobile Go Center
Amount Funded: $80,520
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This mobile college-access center is used to promote higher education for students and families from high schools and communities with low college-going rates. Focus is on inner-city Latino and African American students from Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, as well as rural youth from Central, East, and South Texas. TG funding will be used for general support of the program, providing direct services for career investigation, college applications, financial aid applications, and scholarship searching.
Grantee: San Antonio Education Fund
Location: San Antonio, TX
Project Title: Creating Pathways: A College Transition Project
Amount Funded: $157,625
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
This program focuses on first-generation, traditionally underrepresented students in 10 high schools with high-need populations. It provides motivation and support designed to help students achieve college success. Program components include: 1) college scholarships that reward academic success and attendance in high school; 2) incentive scholarships that require students to document degree plans and declare an educational goal; 3) coaching that mentors students to and through college; 4) a transition conference that offers more than 30 workshops for students. Approximately $105,000 of TG's support is designated for need-based aid to be awarded to 300 students.
Grantee: San Jacinto Elementary School
Location: Amarillo, TX
Project Title: No Excuses University: Changing the Culture of a School and a Community by Building Bridges to College
Amount Funded: $38,725
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
San Jacinto Elementary is located in a high-need area of Amarillo, Texas. In 2007-08 the school joined a network of 38 low-income schools dedicated to seeing that students become college ready to escape generational poverty. This project will build on the success already experienced in raising test scores and changing the culture of expectations for students and families. Program enhancements include establishing an on-site presence with Amarillo College and academic field visits to campus (particularly in the science areas) for SJE students. In addition, SJE will increase its capacity to offer GED courses for parents.
Grantee: The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis
Location: St. Louis, MO
Project Title: Bravo Grant Program
Amount Funded: $75,000
Category: Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: 2009-10
Funding for the Bravo Grant Program enables 15 additional students to receive financial assistance to attend college in 2009-10. Grants awarded through this program assist a total of 700 students each year who demonstrate financial need, satisfactory academic progress and who have demonstrated the ability to achieve in the face of adversity.
Grantee: See Forever Foundation
Location: Washington, DC
Project Title: Dreams Realized Through Transitional and Alumni Support
Amount Funded: $80,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This project focuses on strengthening the high school to postsecondary transition process for low-income and/or first-generation college students. Services include classes for high school juniors and seniors on goal setting, college entrance, financial aid, and college tours. Retention services include coordinating academic, financial, and social/emotional services for current college students, and job searching assistance.
Grantee: St. Catherine University
Location: St. Paul, MN
Project Title: The Financial Literacy Program
Amount Funded: $126,470
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This program provides courses, workshops, individual financial counseling, online resources, and other support and educational services to approximately 450 enrolled students. Through these services, the program aims to improve retention and graduation rates especially for first-generation and underrepresented students. The total student population of 5,200 will indirectly benefit from TG's support of this program as well.
Grantee: Student Assistance Foundation
Location: Helena, MT
Project Title: A Step Ahead — College Prep Camp
Amount Funded: $10,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
The College Prep Camp is a free, three-day program designed to introduce Montana's foster youth to the possibility of pursuing postsecondary education. Participants attend classes, stay in residence halls, receive instruction in computer skills and debt management techniques, as well as learn how to apply for Foster Youth Education and Training Vouchers, research scholarships, colleges, careers, and more. Approximately 25 high school juniors and seniors participate each year. Most of the participants will turn 18 during the upcoming year and will be "aging out" of foster care.
Grantee: Take Stock in Children
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Project Title: Take Stock in Children College Access
Amount Funded: $99,280
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This project provides support and resources to students in low-income schools with the goal of increasing college access for first-generation students. Specifically, 125 students in middle and high school will receive student and family workshops addressing test preparation, financial aid, and general college readiness, ongoing monitoring of grades, attendance monitoring, and behavior referrals to social service providers as needed.
Grantee: Tallahassee Community College Foundation, Inc.
Location: Tallahassee, FL
Project Title: Serving those who Served: A Pilot Program to Increase Student Success through a new Veterans Success Center
Amount Funded: $124,425
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
Funding for this program would help establish a Veterans Success Center and pilot services to help military veterans who are returning from service and plan to enroll at TCC. Program elements will include disability support services, academic advisors, career counselors, and intensive student success services including extra tutoring. An anticipated 700 students are expected to require and use the new services. In addition, the Florida Board of Governors seeks to use this project as a statewide model, if successful in helping veterans persist in college.
Grantee: Tarleton State University
Location: Stephenville, TX
Project Title: Texan Jump Start Program
Amount Funded: $108,875
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
This program will foster the college success of 50 first-generation, Pell-eligible first-year students who have tested as not ready for college-level mathematics. Programming will include an intensive residential summer program consisting of a six-hour block of academic classes coordinated by Student Success Programs, a developmental math class, a physical education class, and a study skills seminar. In addition a structured fall semester support program will continue to assist students as they transition to school full time. $90,000 of TG's funding will be used to offset tuition, fees, and room/board charges.
Grantee: Texas Woman's University
Location: Denton, TX
Project Title: SPRINT: Single, Parent, Resources, Information, Networking, and Technology Pilot Program
Amount Funded: $81,400
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
This pilot program aims to increase services to a group of single parents at TWU with the goal of improving persistence, access to technology, participation in campus activities, and to alleviate financial obstacles. The program will serve 20 single mothers and their children in 2009-10 by providing career development, leadership training, and networking opportunities, child care stipends, and laptop computers.
Grantee: University of Missouri
Location: Columbia, MO
Project Title: Missouri College Advising Corps
Amount Funded: $101,299
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This project will enhance the services provided through the Missouri College Advising Corps by establishing two new advising guides, one in an urban school and one rural. This will expand the capacity of the program by 800 students, including 150 additional seniors, who will receive one-on-one assistance with college awareness and planning, bringing the total number of students served to more than 3,200 across the state.
Grantee: University of North Texas
Location: Denton, TX
Project Title: The Efficacy of Transfer Policies and Programs in the state of Texas
Amount Funded: $147,906
Category: Educational Research
Award Year: 2009-10
Building upon recommendations made following the 2008 Presidents' and Chancellors' Transfer Success Summit, the proposed research will explore 1) how campus administrators perceive and enact transfer policies; 2) transfer experiences of community college students preparing to transfer and university students who have recently transferred to four-year institutions from community colleges; and 3) whether transfer experiences of minority, first-generation, and nontraditional students differ from transfer students' experiences in general.
Grantee: The University of Texas at Austin
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: GeoFORCE Texas: Discovering Einsteins in Unique Places
Amount Funded: $100,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
This program is designed to increase the number of science degrees earned by underserved students, mostly minorities, from rural and inner-city Texas schools. Programming includes field experiences and direct interaction with professional scientists, using a discovery learning approach that illustrates how lessons learned in school have applications in daily life. In 2009-10 the program will serve approximately 640 students in Houston and Uvalde.
Grantee: University of Texas at El Paso
Location: El Paso, TX
Project Title: START
Amount Funded: $148,549
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
Students Always Reaching for the Top (START) focuses on improving educational access and success for underrepresented populations. The program will enhance precollege outreach services to middle schools that serve a high percentage of Hispanic youth and families in eight school districts in El Paso County. Parents will be equal participants, learning how to help their children succeed academically and prepare for future professional careers. Program components include campus visits, presentations by UTEP students, service-learning and community volunteering, and academic enrichment in the STEM fields.
Grantee: University of Texas at San Antonio
Location: San Antonio, TX
Project Title: Texas Prefreshman Engineering Program (TexPREP)
Amount Funded: $129,600
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
TexPREP will provide students in grades 6-11 with a rigorous 7-8 week summer mathematics-based academic enrichment program. The program will be provided in 15 cities on 23 college campuses, serving 2,700 students. Funding from TG will help to support program assistant mentors (current college students) at 15 sites, who supervise students and serve as role models for the middle and high school participants.
Grantee: University of Utah
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Project Title: Increasing College Access: Expanding Utah's College Advising Corps
Amount Funded: $76,411
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
The University of Utah provides a state-wide college access program that focuses on reaching out to low-income and first-generation students through a near-peer mentoring and advising model. Advising corps members work full time helping high school students through test preparation, application and financial aid processes to prepare students to enroll in higher education. The program currently operates in 10 Salt Lake City area high schools. TG funding supports the addition of two high schools to the service area.
Grantee: University of Utah/University Neighborhood Partners
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Project Title: Pathways to Higher Education
Amount Funded: $80,284
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
University Neighborhood Partners provides programming throughout the educational pipeline to address the need for greater access to higher education, improved coordination in teacher training, educational administration and staff, and greater support for parents. Specifically targeted to address the needs of students and families in the west-side neighborhoods of Salt Lake City, this project focuses primarily on student leadership skill development and parental engagement. TG's funding will support these areas in particular, along with providing $6,000 in need-based aid for students.
Grantee: Uplift Education
Location: Dallas, TX
Project Title: Road to College
Amount Funded: $125,000
Category: Direct Services to Students/Families
Award Year: 2009-10
The Road to College program is a required college-readiness program in the Uplift public charter school for 6th-12th graders and their parents. Approximately 3,700 students will participate in 2009-10. Program components include career and college exploration activities, focused college preparation for juniors and seniors, parental readiness seminars and workshops, and alumni support for students transitioning to higher education. The majority of TG's funding will support college visits and test preparation workshops and testing fees.
Grantee: Vernon College
Location: Vernon, TX
Project Title: Catching the Future
Amount Funded: $163,725
Category: Both Financial Aid & Direct Services
Award Year: 2009-10
Catching the Future is a collaborative program involving Vernon College, the 34 middle and 33 high schools in its 12-county service area, North Texas Tech Prep, North Texas Workforce Solutions, and the P-16 Council. The purpose is to engage students and their families, grades 8-12, as they explore career opportunities and develop plans for achieving their goals. For the 2009-10 year, approximately $132,000 of TG's funds will be used for need-based scholarships for 250 concurrent enrollment/dual credit courses for high school students. The remainder will help develop video and other materials to motivate students and their families, and to hold meetings with parents, students, and counselors through the year.
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