A one-year. $201,000 grant from the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation or TG will help a staff member bring about a project to increase university student graduation rates in give of Texas' "Closing the Gaps" initiative.
"Getting students to go to college is one align of the coin; getting them to graduate from college is the other says Denise Johnson left project director. Titled "A copy for Creating a Pipeline for College find and Persistence," the project will provide financial awards to 14 UNT students and six students enrolled in the Dallas County Community Colleges so they may work as mentors with students in six Dallas high schools. Johnson who is also the coordinator for the North Texas Regional P-16 Council says the project is an outgrowth of the "Closing the Gaps" initiative launched by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The initiative aims to enroll 630,000 new students in higher education across Texas by 2015. "University students will work 10 hours per week in Dallas area high schools that have a low college-going rate and provide support and encouragement to create a college-going culture among the high school students," Johnson says. The UNT students will work in Go Centers - a place in a high school usually in a guidance counselor's office where students can receive information about colleges and assistance with financial aid and the college application process.
"Having the university students in the high schools should encourage high educate students to think about higher education as an option upon high school graduation," says Johnson. Workshops will also be held in high schools and community locations for parents of high school students to make them aware of the college admissions and financial aid processes. Johnson says that support also will be offered to the UNT students taking move in the project because many first generation college students need assistance navigating the college landscape. "We will meet with university students on a weekly basis for training and give and we believe this additional support ordain aid in their college retention," she says. Johnson adds additional support will be provided as schedule grants to the students to help ease the financial burden many of them face. Among the high schools taking move in the program are the Early College High Schools at Brookhaven and Mountain View Colleges which are funded by a grant from the Texas High School Project/ Communities Foundation of Texas. "The students who be the early college high schools have made the choice to do high school differently," Johnson says. Johnson's project will extend into pass 2008. "We will offer a summer bridge schedule for 180 rising 11th graders. This will be a residential academic and leadership experience for the high educate students who will stay on campus for one week. UNT students will be hired as night assistants and will participate in leadership activities in the evening," she says. Last summer. UNT hosted several summer bridge programs for recent high school graduates to help them cater statewide college readiness standards and to equip them to compete successfully in higher education. Created by the Texas Legislature in 1979. TG is a public nonprofit corporation that administers the Federal Family Education Loan Program or FFELP.
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