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Be sure to listen in at 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 20, to WJCT 89.9 FM as Melissa Ross of the popular “First Coast Connect” program talks with Glori White Peters, director of the Upward Bound Program at Jacksonville University.
Upward Bound recently received $1.9 million in federal money to continue its services for another five years for students at five area high schools. The grant for educational support services will provide $398,997 annually and allow JU to serve 89 students total each year at Raines, Ribault, Jackson, Lee and Englewood high schools.
As part of the program, students participate in an intensive, six-week college-going experience that begins this month, during which they stay in JU residence halls while attending classes. New this year is an intensive two-week boot camp, with a focus on economic and financial literacy, college and career choices and ACT and SAT standardized test preparation.
JU is one of 19 colleges and universities throughout the state that will receive more than $28 million in funding over the next five years. More on JU’s Upward Bound program is at http://www.ju.edu/OSSP/Pages/Upward-Bound.aspx.