Opportunity Programs: Opening the Doors to Higher Education : Hearing of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session ... June 12, 1997, Volume 4 |
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Page 25 - Americans will have the tools and opportunities they can put to work improving both their lives and their communities.
Page 44 - My suggestion is that there should be a hospital in the northern part of the State and one in the southern part of the State.
Page 25 - McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program — have been helping low-income students to improve their lives by entering and graduating from college. It is estimated that over two million individuals who have participated in the TRIO programs have now graduated from college, moved out of poverty, and are contributing members of their communities.
Page 26 - TRIO program is precisely to increase retention and graduation rates of disadvantage*! students. The study found that participation in Student Support Services increased the likelihood of a student remaining in college through the third year by nine (9) percentage points (from 40 percent to 49 percent). This is particularly important given the fact that according to the National Center for Education Statistics, the likelihood of a low-income student who begins college graduating within five years...
Page 72 - In order to sustain and enhance the capacity for teaching and research in areas of national need...
Page 48 - DODD Senator DODD. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and my apologies to you and to our witnesses for being a couple of minutes late coming over.
Page 78 - S80 million before any funds are provided to HSI grants; designate HSI programs as Part C of Title III, and create a new grants program under the revised Part C of Title III to provide awards to HSIs with graduate and professional programs for activities to expand and improve graduate and professional opportunities for Hispanic Americans and other students under-represented in graduate education. Of the $l00 million increase referenced previously, $20 million would be authorized to be appropriated...
Page 76 - For the purpose of carrying out this title, there are authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1993 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years. (2) AVAILABILITY. — Funds appropriated pursuant to the authority of paragraph (1) shall remain available until expended.
Page 26 - The results of these evaluations are strong. After tracking 2,700 Student Support Services college freshmen and a matched comparison group of similar size for three years, the WESTAT evaluation concluded that Student Support Services is very well targeted on low-income, first-generation students with great need for support in order to graduate from college.
Page 26 - Bound evaluation, which tracked 1,480 students randomly assigned to Upward Bound and a control group of 1,320 students, were equally encouraging. Students in Upward Bound, for example completed 17 percent more academic courses in high school than the control group. They were more likely to sustain high educational expectations and their parents* educational expectations for them also increased. The initial report does not address Upward Bound students...