The Daniels Fund College Readiness Program at UNM has been awarded a $34,785 grant to expand its intensive summer residential preparatory program into a year-round college prep program for 50 high school seniors. The award continues the successful three-year partnership between the Daniels Fund and UNM’s College Prep Programs within College Enrichment & Outreach Programs (CEOP) in the Division of Student Affairs.
Partnership
The CEOP has been partnering with the Daniels Fund Scholarships since 2004 and currently operates a Daniels Fund summer college prep program and scholarship program. The $34,785 grant will enable the program to provide high school students with the necessary tools to access and enter a post-secondary institution and compete for scholarships.
The new version of the College Readiness Program will be an intensive one-year program that will promote high school graduation and college enrollment for 50 high school seniors.
Summer Program
The current summer version of the College Readiness Program begins with a parent/student orientation during the spring semester of a student’s junior year in high school. It extends into the summer for a six-day residential program, and concludes with a series of seminars during the student’s senior year of high school.
The seminars are designed to help promising young adults with demonstrated financial need to prepare for college, explore college possibilities, and understand the college application process. Orientation, the summer residential program, and seminars are held on the UNM main campus.
For more information, please contact Mandie Pritchard, Director of Pre-College Programs, at pritchm@unm.edu, or call her at (505) 277-3096.
Media Contact: Laurie Mellas, (505) 277-5915, lmellas@unm.edu
Posted by bhendrix at June 13, 2007 03:45 PM