UC Clermont's TRIO Upward Bound Program Receives $1.5 Million Grant from Department of Education

The TRIO Upward Bound program at the UC Clermont College has received a grant of $1,511,375 from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of TRIO Programs, to continue services through 2017.

Upward Bound at UC Clermont encourages life-long learning through a learning community that enables high school students in Clermont and Brown Counties to develop and enhance the intellectual, cultural and social skills necessary for success in postsecondary education. Upward Bound will serve 72 students each year from eight high schools: Batavia, Bethel-Tate, Clermont Northeastern, Felicity-Franklin, Georgetown, Goshen, Western Brown and Williamsburg.

UC Clermont College was awarded the grant based on its application and on prior experience points that are awarded for successful completion of program objectives. “I am inspired by our students and their commitment to the Upward Bound learning community and to their future,” said Academic Director Dan Schneider, who has been at UC Clermont for more than 13 years. 

Upward Bound helps to provide high school students with the necessary skills so that they may become successful college students. Successful Upward Bound students are part of the first generation in their family to enter and graduate from college. Services include Saturday Academies and a six-week Summer Academy on the Clermont College campus that includes classes in English composition and literature, laboratory science, mathematics and German. Other services include tutoring, academic and career advising, assistance in applying for college and for financial aid, college visits, cultural field trips, ACT preparation, summer career internships, a summer bridge program for graduating seniors and a trip to a major city at the conclusion of Summer Academy.

Hundreds of students have participated in Upward Bound at UC Clermont since 1995, and almost all Upward Bound graduates have entered postsecondary education. Sixty-nine percent of Upward Bound graduates are now in college or have graduated from college. In the words of one parent, “this is the best program to help teens get focused and stay focused on the importance of getting better educated.”

Other Upward Bound staff members include: Program Coordinator Bonnie Laube, Student Development Specialist Amy Thomas, Academic Tutors Amanda Luttrell-Smith and Andrea Miller and Administrative Secretary Tammy McCall.

For more information, contact the Upward Bound office at (513) 558-7432 or visit the Upward Bound web site

http://www.ucclermont.edu/about/ub.html