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Grants Awarded in FY 2008
Grantee: Claymont City Schools
Location: Uhrichsville, OH
Project Title: Paving the Way to College
Amount Funded: $21,000
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This program aims to promote college awareness through the Claymont City Schools in Ohio. Programming will assist students and parents/guardians through the process of career exploration, post-secondary school selection, financial aid, and admissions processes. The program will target students in grades 2, 5, and 7-12.
Grantee: Cleveland Scholarship Programs
Location: Cleveland, OH
Project Title: Postsecondary Access Initiative
Amount Funded: $200,000
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This project builds on an existing program to improve access to higher education in the greater Cleveland area. In particular, TG funding will be used to provide additional services and track retention of program participants as they persist through degree completion.
Grantee: College Forward
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: AmeriCorps*Texas College Access Initiative
Amount Funded: $87,328
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This project would combine support from TG with other grant funds from the OneStar Foundation and the Corporation for National and Community Success to staff pre-college outreach programs for low-income students who will be the first in their families to receive college degrees or who attend Central Texas high schools with low college-going rates. The funds will be used for the living stipends and related expenses for the mentors and volunteers involved in providing instruction, workshops, and guidance to students.
Grantee: College Forward
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: College Retention for Student Success
Amount Funded: $62,454
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This project will augment the established after-school high school curriculum with intensive college to career exploration for more than 400 high school juniors and seniors with an increased emphasis on each student. In the summer before matriculation, a week-long summer bridge transition program will be provided for 50 students who do not have access to similar services through their chosen colleges. The program will focus on study skills, campus engagement, academic and personal advising, course and major selection, and the creation of individual road maps to baccalaureate degrees.
Grantee: Council for Opportunity in Education/Pell Institute
Location: Washington, DC
Project Title: Bridging the Gap to Success: Promising Practices for Promoting Transfer Among Low-Income and First-Generation Students
Amount Funded: $150,000
Category: Educational Research
Award Year: FY 2008
Conducted by the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, this research builds on the findings from "Straight from the Source," which TG funded in 2006-2007. Investigators aim to examine the transfer pipeline and study institutional programs and practices that support transfer among low-income and first-generation students in order to identify promising practices that other institutions can adopt to increase success among this population.
Grantee: Edison State Community College
Location: Piqua, OH
Project Title: Kids to College
Amount Funded: $17,050
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
The goal of this project is to develop a curriculum and provide intensive career/college exploration activities for students in grades K-6.
Grantee: Family Centered Educational Agency Inc.
Location: South Holland, IL
Project Title: Serious Conference
Amount Funded: $20,000
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This project will provide information to help TRIO program graduates make informed transitions from high school to college through a conference. The conference will focus on enrollment, student success, and financial literacy, and an anticipated 800 students will attend.
Grantee: Kalamazoo College
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Project Title: Keeping the Doors Open: After School Math for Middle School Students
Amount Funded: $34,500
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This program seeks to continue funding for an after-school math enrichment program in which Kalamazoo College students tutor Kalamazoo Public School middle schoolers from minority groups typically underrepresented in higher education and math/sciences. The purpose of the program is to increase math achievement among talented middle school students at this crucial stage, where algebra is the "gatekeeper" to college. Changes to the program for second-year consideration include additional parent/guardian meetings and evaluation of causal connections between parent involvement and student success.
Grantee: Middle Georgia Center for Academic Excellence
Location: Macon, GA
Project Title: Saved by the Bell — Academic Intervention Program
Amount Funded: $200,000
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
To help alleviate the educational risk factors of students in Bibb County custody, the Middle Georgia Center for Academic Excellence will work collaboratively with Bibb County Schools, Department of Family and Children Services, and Macon-Bibb County Economic Opportunity Council to provide 100 students with a full range of education intervention services focusing on educational achievement, graduation, and postsecondary enrollment.
Grantee: National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators
Location: Washington, DC
Project Title: National College Access Marketing Campaign for College Goal Sunday
Amount Funded: $25,000
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
The purpose of the college access marketing campaign is to provide the College Goal Sunday program that assists low-income families and first-generation students in receiving professional assistance, free of charge, to complete the FAFSA form. Two videos and two radio spots will be developed and used in statewide and community-based media outlets to complement the grassroots outreach strategies that hare the cornerstone of the College Goal program nationwide.
Grantee: National College Access Network
Location: Cleveland, OH
Project Title: National College Advising Corps Training Support
Amount Funded: $164,650
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
The Corps consists of 10 colleges committed to providing college access counseling through university-based programs throughout the nation. Each college employs recent graduate for a service year to work in underrepresented high schools to assist students with admission, financial aid, and scholarship applications. This project will support and augment these efforts by underwriting a six or seven-week intensive local training program and will provide the counselors with a veteran advisor to serve as a mentor throughout the academic year.
Grantee: New Mexico State University
Location: Las Cruces, NM
Project Title: American Indian Outreach Scholarship and Grants Program
Amount Funded: $88,500
Category: Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
This project intends to address financial needs of 15 American Indian doctoral students by providing need-based financial aid for direct costs incurred by these students who are pursuing degrees in education, agriculture, business, and engineering.
Grantee: Northeast Lakeview College
Location: San Antonio, TX
Project Title: College Connection: Making Dreams a Reality
Amount Funded: $200,000
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families/Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
This project takes the "College Connection" model started by Austin Community College, and implements it between Northeast Lakeview College and Judson ISD, aiming to increase the percentage of JISD seniors who enroll at NLC from 9 percent to 30 percent. Programming includes scholarship and financial aid workshops, a pre-college academic summer camp, and need-based scholarships for selected participants.
Grantee: Ohio College Access Network
Location: Columbus, OH
Project Title: Bridging College Access to Degree Completion
Amount Funded: $100,000
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This project aims to provide three partnership groups with resources to implement access and retention programming and support services. In addition, support will be used to conduct an evaluation of these projects in order to disseminate findings to other access programs throughout Ohio and the U.S. The three partnership groups operate in Lima/Allen County, Washington State Community College, and Belmont Technical College. Overall, more than 7,000 students served by these three partnerships will benefit from program activities.
Grantee: Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission
Location: Columbus, OH
Project Title: Ohio College Access for Persons with Disabilities
Amount Funded: $100,000
Category: Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
This need-based aid program is designed to increase access to higher education for persons with disabilities in Ohio, improve yearly retention rates in postsecondary education among Ohioans with disabilities, and increase the number of students with disabilities completing postsecondary education programs. The amounts of individual awards will vary, but the project anticipates awards ranging from $500 to $2,000, based on financial need.
Grantee: Sam Houston State University
Location: Huntsville, TX
Project Title: Mobile Go Center
Amount Funded: $89,210
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This project will use a Mobile Go Center to promote the value and attainability of a higher education for students and families from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in higher education. The Mobile Go Center will provide materials and Internet access for use in scholarship applications, college and career planning, and admissions/financial aid. Targeted areas of impact include Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Central and South Texas.
Grantee: Schreiner University
Location: Kerrville, TX
Project Title: Student Retention and Success Program
Amount Funded: $116,218
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families/Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
This program proposes to provide need-based financial aid to first-time, full-time students at risk of not persisting in college due to academic preparation and financial barriers who demonstrate satisfactory academic progress during the first year, and to provide supplemental instruction in high fail-rate courses.
Grantee: South Texas College
Location: McAllen, TX
Project Title: Dual Enrollment Academy Support
Amount Funded: $168,889
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
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. By participating in either academy, students can earn an associate degree at the same time they graduate from high school. Approximately 34 high schools in the Rio Grande Valley will participate, serving more than 230 students.
Grantee: Southern Methodist University
Location: Dallas, TX
Project Title: Early College Access Institute
Amount Funded: $197,080
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families/Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
This project will provide college preparatory services to 200 low-income and/or first-generation college students in grades 8-12 in the Dallas ISD. The program provides PSAT, SAT, and ACT prep courses, financial aid information, scholarship research, admission and application assistance. Parents will be provided with financial literacy information, including how to navigate the financial aid process, debt and credit management, and delinquency/default prevention.
Grantee: Southern State Community College
Location: Hillsboro, OH
Project Title: HighlandCAN!
Amount Funded: $175,150
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This project will provide a college access center resource room and an in-school college access advisor in each of five school districts located in Highland County, Ohio. The resource center will hold regularly scheduled office hours and be open to any student in grades 7-12 or their parents or guardians seeking information on planning and paying for college.
Grantee: Southwest Key Programs
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: College Connections for Low-Income Youth in East Austin
Amount Funded: $101,040
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This program aims to serve high school juniors and their parents in exploring the college-preparation process. Program components include mentoring, volunteerism, college campus visits for families, college-planning workshops, and tutoring.
Grantee: St. Edward's University
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: Key Courses Supplemental Instruction
Amount Funded: $121,296
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families/Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
This project aims to build on the success of the "Interns for Success" program, funded by TG in 2007. The program introduces experiential learning opportunities and strengthens undergraduate retention by placing upper-level student assistants in freshman courses to provide mentoring and tutoring. A total of 42 mentors will be placed in courses that serve approximately 725 students.
Grantee: Stark Education Partnership, Inc.
Location: Canton, OH
Project Title: Increasing Student Access and Success in College through Dual Credit Coursework
Amount Funded: $113,100
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This project aims to develop the capacity to provide dual credit enrollment to assist an additional 1,395 students in the Canton, Ohio area. Funds will be used for teacher training and certification and general project support.
Grantee: Texas A&M University/Agricultural Experiment Station
Location: Edinburg, TX
Project Title: Opening Doors of Education in San Antonio
Amount Funded: $112,272
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This project would expand the "Abriendo Puertas" Parental Communication Initiative into the San Antonio region. The program provides a parental support system to assist Hispanic students in high school completion and college graduation. This program would be replicated in the Southwest ISD of San Antonio, including collaboration between school administrators, city officials, and community organizations to provide tools and training to 25 parent volunteers, who in turn provide outreach to 500 SISD parents.
Grantee: Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
Location: Dallas, TX
Project Title: Post-Baccalaureate Program
Amount Funded: $184,000
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This project is a year-long dental-school preparation program for applicants who are from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in dental school enrollment and who show good academic potential but were not admitted. During the year, 16 students take a total of 30 hours over two semesters. The majority of these courses are upper-division science courses. Following completion, students participate in a six-week pre-matriculation program that offers an overview of anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, neuroscience, and histology — courses that first-year dental students typically find challenging. Each student will meet with a mentor to assess progress and further develop organizational and time-management skills to help ensure success.
Grantee: Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Location: Kingsville, TX
Project Title: Academic Rising Scholars
Amount Funded: $135,707
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families/Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
Students who participate in this program will work collaboratively with TAMUK and their high school's college awareness center (Go Center) by serving on the G-Force and developing and implementing monthly programs that promote college readiness to help educate the entire student body on the importance of higher education. In addition, TAMUK and TG funding would be used to provide 29 scholarships for $4000 (disbursed over two years) to students who have met program requirements, demonstrated a strong desire to create a college-going culture on their campus, and who plan to enroll at TAMUK. This project reflects partnership between TAMUK, TAMUCC, THECB, and 25 school districts in South Texas.
Grantee: Texas Association of Developing Colleges
Location: Dallas, TX
Project Title: Black Male Youth Accessing Higher Education with E's
Amount Funded: $136,313
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families/Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
This project will provide direct services to 50 students and families selected from 2,513 prospective participants, age 16-19. The cohort is pre-collegiate, high-risk, economically disadvantaged, potentially first-generation college-going, African American males (and parents/guardians) currently living in Dallas Housing Authority's Section 8 and Public Housing. The program will provide exercises and workshops, including college visits, financial aid information, and college preparation information, to expose participants to the reality and accessibility of higher education.
Grantee: Texas State Technical College- Harlingen
Location: Harlingen, TX
Project Title: Living/Learning Community
Amount Funded: $47,825
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This project is designed to bring together high school students and TSTC technical program students in a mentoring relationship that allows the high school students to explore career pathways in technical fields. Program components include need-based stipends for college-student mentors, financial literacy programming, and college-planning information for parents.
Grantee: Texas Wesleyan University
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Project Title: Pathways to Success
Amount Funded: $95,910
Category: Need-based Financial Aid/Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
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 addition of one new and continuing support for two existing Go Centers; and 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.
Grantee: University of Central Florida
Location: Orlando, FL
Project Title: BorrowLess Grant
Amount Funded: $200,000
Category: Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
This pilot program will assist first-generation undergraduate student loan borrowers who are financially needy, but who do not qualify for the Pell or Florida Student Assistance Grants, by awarding them annual grants of $2,000, thus reducing their total loan indebtedness and unmet need.
Grantee: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Location: Lincoln, NE
Project Title: Engaging First-Generation Hispanic Students in Classroom Practices that Promote Academic Success
Amount Funded: $63,708
Category: Educational Research
Award Year: FY 2008
This project will seek insight from faculty members who have been identified as those who have demonstrated effectiveness in the classroom in regard to a high level of academic success among first-generation Hispanic students. These insights will be analyzed to identify common themes that can then be used by other faculty members and other institutions.
Grantee: University of North Texas
Location: Denton, TX
Project Title: Soaring Higher Transfer Scholarship
Amount Funded: $100,000
Category: Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
This scholarship program proposes to provide financial assistance to community college students who are first-generation with high financial need, have earned at least 45 credits within two years of high school graduation, and are concurrent admission participants of Collin County Community College, Dallas County Community College, Hill College, and/or North Central Texas College.
Grantee: University of North Texas
Location: Denton, TX
Project Title: Study of College-Going Culture in Urban High Schools
Amount Funded: $55,790
Category: Educational Research
Award Year: FY 2008
This project will explore college access and retention among first-generation college students from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in higher education through interlocking studies of students and graduates of six urban high schools. The potential of the study is to (1) provide data about the perceived impact on college readiness of programs already in place that are sponsored by members of the North Texas Regional P-16 Council, (2) to inform school communities about key elements of developing a college-going culture, and (3) to involve students, teachers, and counselors in thinking about school improvement by drawing on research and best practices.
Grantee: University of North Texas
Location: Denton, TX
Project Title: A Model for Building a Pipeline for College Enrollment and Persistence
Amount Funded: $201,055
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families/Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
This project aims to improve access and increase participation in higher education through four initiatives: 1) financial and academic support to current community college and university students; 2) current college students working with high school students on their respective campuses through a "College Knowledge" curriculum; 3) summer residential program for 240 students who have completed the "College Knowledge" curriculum; and 4) training college students to serve as G-Force members in continuing years.
Grantee: University of North Texas Health Science Center
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Project Title: Minority Post-baccalaureate Entry Enhancement Program
Amount Funded: $155,757
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This project helps address the urgent need to train a large number of health professionals to serve the minority population in Texas in the near future. The project aims to provide 15 underrepresented minority students who have received undergraduate degrees in science with a challenging, focused post-baccalaureate experience that will prepare them for acceptance into medical school programs and allow them to successfully complete these programs.
Grantee: University of Texas at Austin
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: University Outreach Center — Houston
Amount Funded: $45,120
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This project will provide test-preparation, college planning, and summer programming services for students in grades 9-12 in the south and east regions of the Houston Independent School District.
Grantee: University of Texas at Austin/Ray Marshall Center
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: Central Texas High School Graduate Data Center — Cycle 3
Amount Funded: $226,000
Category: Educational Research
Award Year: FY 2008
This program will build on the previous project (Cycle 2) funded by TG to identify the numbers and types of Central Texas graduates who are engaged in further education and/or the workforce and continue to identify those factors statistically associated with successful transitions from high school for both 2006 and 2007 graduates.
Grantee: University of Texas at Dallas
Location: Richardson, TX
Project Title: College Transition Project for Region I
Amount Funded: $28,491
Category: Educational Research
Award Year: FY 2008
This proposal requests funds to provide high school-specific reports to districts in Region I (Rio Grande Valley) that contain college-going information to all Texas public colleges and 94 percent of out-of-state and private colleges nationwide for their graduates. Although the project provides information for all graduating seniors, a focus of the reports will be on student participating in career and technology education including Tech Prep.
Grantee: University of Texas at El Paso
Location: El Paso, TX
Project Title: College Survival Skills: Freshman Year Project
Amount Funded: $110,000
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families/Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
Between 30 and 35 UTEP freshman students, who are also Upward Bound alumni, will work with 10 sophomore or junior-level mentors to improve success rates in completing the freshman year. Goals of the program include successful completion and testing out of developmental education courses, completing 24 credit hours with a GPA of 2.5 or higher, and completion of career aptitude assessments, and academic advising.
Grantee: University of Texas at San Antonio
Location: San Antonio, TX
Project Title: Texas Prefreshman Engineering Program (TexPREP)
Amount Funded: $164,500
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
TexPREP 2008 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 equip two new sites in summer 2008.
Grantee: University of Texas at San Antonio
Location: San Antonio, TX
Project Title: Graduate Student Success Program
Amount Funded: $129,441
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families/Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
This program aims to assist students in making positive progress toward graduation from graduate school by completing large writing projects and easing the transition of graduate students into graduate school by providing a supportive environment for them to explore resources. In addition, financial support will be provided to first-generation graduate students who will serve as peer advisors for their colleagues.
Grantee: University of Texas System
Location: Austin, TX
Project Title: College Access Outreach Program
Amount Funded: $258,805
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families/Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
This project will provide 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 two scholarship programs: (1) for first-generation college students and (2) a parent-to-student scholarship.
Grantee: Ursuline College
Location: Pepper Pike, OH
Project Title: Science FIRST (Focusing Interest in Real-life Science and Technology)
Amount Funded: $47,189
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families/Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
This program has two components: 1) a college-level course titled "Current topics in science: a global perspective," taught primarily during the summer preceding students' senior year of high school and 2) a mentoring program to assist these students with the college application process and support them through their first year at a college or university. Students will earn up to 2 college credits and will receive a $500 stipend upon successful completion of the program. Targeted students will be first-generation students from high schools with low college-going rates.
Grantee: Vernon College
Location: Wichita Falls, TX
Project Title: Early College Start
Amount Funded: $82,227
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families/Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
This project enables high school students to attend college in the afternoons, and subsequently, earn a college certificate of completion in a technical program in combination with graduating from high school. Funding will be used for need-based scholarships for students and for related expenses to add three new high school partners to the program for 2008.
Grantee: Victoria College
Location: Victoria, TX
Project Title: Developmental Education Summer Bridge — Lighthouse Initiative
Amount Funded: $63,207
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families/Need-based Financial Aid
Award Year: FY 2008
The Victoria College proposes to partner with Victoria ISD, Bloomington ISD, Gonzales ISD, and Industrial ISD to develop and implement a high school summer bridge program for graduating senior students who have not met the college readiness standard as defined by Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA) placement test scores.
Grantee: Wilmington College
Location: Wilmington, OH
Project Title: Freshman Retention Initiative
Amount Funded: $91,670
Category: Direct Services to Students and Families
Award Year: FY 2008
This project aims to address difficulties that freshman students encounter, which often result in stopping- or dropping-out. At this campus, students report that academic preparedness as well as distance from family and dissatisfaction with dorm life are the primary reasons they withdraw. As a result, this project will focus on services and programming connected with residence halls and housing staff to address student success.