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| With so many innovative projects happening on
campus, it is difficult to list them all here. Therefore, we have
chosen just a few to highlight on this page.
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| TRIO Student Support Services: Project
Launch - Margaret Antonio, Project Director. The project
serves 160 first-generation, low-income students and students
with disabilities. Extra levels of tutoring, advising, financial,
and cultural support services are provided to increase student
retention and success for graduation, and assistance and guidance
is provided for transfer to four-year institutions. In addition
to base funding each year percentage inflation increases are provided;
grant aid funds are provided to assist needy students with financial
crises; and technology support funds are provided to assure access
and training for computer skills. This project has met its goals
each year. Future funding is based, in part, on previous years
of performance on goals and objectives negotiated with the Department
of Education. http://www.ed.gov/programs/triostudsupp/index.html |
Hispanic Serving Institutions Title V Cooperative Grant: Strengthening Student Success and Transfer through a Cooperative Partnership - Jesus Solano, Project Director. The project is divided into two areas:
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Improving student success, retention, and transfer programs, and
- Establishing a comprehensive learning outcomes and assessment effort. A cooperative partnership was established with California State University , Long Beach with a focus on improving student transfer rates.
Expected Outcomes:
Increase in success of basic skills in targeted courses,
Increase in success in science, math and English courses,
Increase in student transfer rates to CSULB,
Integration of targeted student learning outcomes assessment,
Decrease student drop out rate.
For information about the new Title V grant under development, click here. |
TRIO Upward Bound: Jesus Solano,
Project Director. The project serves 50 students in grades 9-12
from first generation and/or low-income families. This project
is a federally funded, pre-college program that helps provide
motivation and academic skills to students to complete their
high school education successfully, enroll in, and graduate
from college. Students participate in academic courses receive
tutoring, college admissions, academic and personal and career
counseling. All program services are designed to assist students
in grades 9-12 with academic, social and cultural skills necessary
to complete a course of study at a post-secondary institution.
http://www.ed.gov/programs/trioupbound.html
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