Sherry Morgan Student Progress Coordinator Appointed to SVSU in 2011 M.Ed. Saginaw Valley State University B.A. Saginaw Valley State University
GRANT Morgan, S., Aimar, C., Callejo PÊrez, D., Dorne, C. (Principal Investigator), Daly, S., & Wilson, S. Project PASS (Promoting Success for All Students), King-Chavez-Parks Select Student Support Services grant #38-1798800. KCP Initiative of the Michigan Department of Career Development, $684,000, November 2011 – September 2017. Grant received over six years aimed at improving the retention of economically and academically disadvantaged students by providing 145 freshman participants per year intensive academic skill development and social and cultural exposure within three components. Those components are 1) a transition component to assist student in bridging the major thresholds of the college experience to ensure academic success and persistence to graduation; 2) Learning Communities, and 3) tutor training, especially in Writing and Math/Science. These three components will form a synergistic unit to facilitate the development of appropriate academic skills among participating students through personal, academic and career counseling; academic tutoring; remedial instruction; study skills support; cultural events; access to financial aid assistance; academic advisement; and leadership and life skills development. The project will identify a sample of high-risk, high need freshmen students, considering factors such as ACT score, first generation-in-college, and Pell eligibility. Student mentors will encourage students' participation in extracurricular activities, such as student organizations, volunteer service, and other forms of campus engagement. A key feature of the student success program is MAP-Works, an online case management system to track referrals and closely follow up with the students in the program. This initiative will also include a sample of high school-age students participating in the Great Lakes Bay Early College program where they can attend college courses and receive college credit prior to graduating high school. The project will also collaborate to a degree with the existing GEAR-UP grant (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs), a bridge program for incoming freshmen offered by SVSU\'s Office of Diversity
Research Bulletin 2011
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