FUNDED PROGRAMS AWARDED 99/00

Project Title: Student Support Services
Project Director:
Organization: Victor Valley College
Phone: (760) 245-4271

The Student Support Services Program provides grants to insittutioons of higher education for projects offering support services to low income, first generation, or disabled college students. These support services should increase thier retention and graduation rates, facilitate thier transfer from two-year to four-yeaar colleges, and foster an institutional climate supportiveof the success of low-income and first generation college students and students with disabilities.

The purpose of the VTEA is to develop more fully the academic, vocational, and technical skills of secondary students and postsecondary students who elect to enroll in vocational and technical education programs by:
building on the efforts of state and localities to develop challenging academic standards;
promoting the development of services and activities that integrate academic, vocational, and technical instruction, and that link secondary and postsecondary education for participating vocational and technical education students.

The general authority for the uses of funds is interpreted to mean that the funds are to be used for:

• to improve or expand, not maintain, programs
• to develop, implement and improve vocational and technical education, not general education, programs
• to improve programs, not isolated courses

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