MCC Receives Grant For First Generation College Push
April 30th, 2006 - Posted in College Grant, EducationA $62,139 grant from the TG Public Benefit Grant Program will help find a program at McLennan Community College that’s aimed at reducing high school dropout rates and encouraging at-risk students to become the first in their families to graduate from college.
TG is a Texas-based nonprofit corporation that guarantees federal student loans.
MCCâ€s First Generation College Student Initiative is designed to reach out as early as the 4th grade to students whose parents never attended college with a particular focus on African-American and Hispanic children.
Efforts to “plant the seeds of college aspirations†will continue at least through the spring of 2009.
The initiative was launched last fall with a $100,000 grant from the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Foundation that will pay for six two-year MCC scholarships for first-generation college students in 2006 and six more scholarships in 2007.
The grand also funds a portion of the salary of an outreach coordinator at MCC for two years.
The new grant will allow 12 more students to attend MCC this year.