Upward
Bound helps young people and adults prepare for higher education by
receiving instruction in literature, composition, foreign languages,
mathematics, and science on college campuses after school, on Saturdays,
and during the summer. Currently, 681 programs are in operation
throughout the United States. Upward Bound is a part of the TRIO
program.
Upward Bound helps
people from families with incomes under $24,000 (where neither parent
graduated from college) to stay in college until they can earn their
baccalaureate degree. Participants, which include disabled college
students, receive tutoring, counseling, and remedial instruction.
Students are now being served at over 707 colleges and universities
nationwide.
EVIDENCE OF
ACHIEVEMENT:
Students in the Upward Bound program are four times more likely to
earn an undergraduate degree than those students from similar
backgrounds who did not participate in the program.
|
