Sent on behalf of Sandra Phoenix July 5, 2012 Upward Bound Awarded Federal Grant SAVANNAH — Savannah State University’s (SSU) Upward Bound Program has been awarded a $3.025 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education for a five-year period that will begin June 2013. The grant funds will support the Upward Bound Program already in place at five public high schools: Beach, Groves, Jenkins, Johnson and the School of Liberal Studies at Savannah High School. Services available to students include supplemental instruction/tutorial, financial aid assistance, and financial literacy education, test taking/study skills, work/study experiences, academic/personal counseling, cultural /college visits, Saturday sessions and residential summer programs. Upward Bound, in existence at Savannah State since 1967, is a unit of ACCESS (Assuring Commitment, Continuity and Excellence for Students’ Success) Programs, which aim to increase the number of low-income students prepared to enter and succeed in post-secondary education. “The sustained support from the Department of Education through 2018 will ensure the continued success of 135 targeted high school students in the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System,” said Hope Cranford, executive director of ACCESS Programs. For more information about Upward Bound and other ACCESS Programs at SSU, contact Cranford at 912-358-3477 or cranford@savannahstate.edu<mailto:cranford@savannahstate.edu> . Established in 1890, Savannah State University is the oldest public historically black college or university in Georgia and the oldest institution of higher learning in the city of Savannah. The university’s 4,500 students select majors from 25 undergraduate and five graduate programs in the School of Teacher Education and three colleges: Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Business Administration and Sciences and Technology. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org www.hbculibraries.org 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-520-0593 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Register now http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/2012meeting-form.html for the October 21-23, 2012 HBCU Library Alliance 5th Membership Meeting and the Photographic Preservation Pre-Conference in New Orleans, LA. The Pre-Conference and Membership meeting are open to directors and other librarians. _______________________________________________ HBCU-Lib mailing list HBCU-Lib@lists.hbculibraries.org http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/listinfo/hbcu-lib