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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50 percent Activity African American appropriated associate's degree attend authorized award Boston campus career Center Chairman Cindy COLES Colleges and Universities Community College Congress counseling counselor degree dropout early intervention Educational Opportunity eligible encourage enrollment evaluation faculty Federal financial aid full-time equivalent funding grades grams Griffin HACU HACU's HBCUs high school Higher Education Act Hispanic Americans Hispanic students Hispanic-Serving Institutions Historically Black Colleges improve increased kids large numbers lege LOAN FORGIVENESS low-income students Magic Johnson McNair minority Morgan NCEOA NEISP program participate Pell grant population postsecondary education President public schools rates reauthorization recommendations requirement Ross scholarship Secretary Senator DODD Senator REED serve SHILLER staff strategy Strengthening student financial Student Support Services success Sul Ross Talent Search teachers Texas Thank tions Title III program TRIO programs tutoring underrepresented Upward Bound Vermont White Hispanic Wilberforce University work-study workshops
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Page 75 - ... is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association determined by the Commissioner to be reliable authority as to the quality of training offered or is, according to such an agency or association, making reasonable progress toward accreditation...
Page 75 - ...any historically Black college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of Black Americans...
Page 23 - Americans will have the tools and opportunities they can put to work improving both their lives and their communities.
Page 42 - 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 23 - 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 24 - 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 86 - In order to sustain and enhance the capacity for teaching and research in areas of national need...
Page 58 - At the time of application, it has an enrollment of undergraduate fulltime equivalent students that is at least 25 percent Hispanic students...
Page 3 - Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. I am pleased to have this opportunity to support the Civil Rights Act of 1990.
Page 76 - 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...