WHAT IS UPWARD BOUND?

Upward Bound is a federally-funded program designed to generate in program participants the skills and motivation necessary to persist on completing a program of secondary education and entering and completing a program of postsecondary education.

Wallace Community College--Sparks Campus' Upward Bound program will target ninth, tenth, and eleventh graders in four service-area high schools to assist them in fulfilling their individual academic and personal potential. As an incentive, participants will receive a monthly stipend.

Basic skills instruction in:

• Mathematics through Pre-Calculus
  
  
• Laboratory Science
  
  
• Foreign Language
  
  
• Composition/Literature

Individual peer tutoring

Counseling:

• Personal
  
  
• Financial
  
  
• Academic
  
  
• Career

Cultural enrichment field trips

Visits to college campuses

Other activities and workshops to promote student success

There is NO CHARGE to participate in the Upward Bound program. Eligible students need only invest time, interest, and the willingness to fulfill their maximum potential.

In order to be eligible for Upward Bound, a student must meet the following guidelines:

1. Be enrolled in the ninth, tenth, or eleventh grade at one of the four service-area high schools listed below
2. Be in need of academic support in order to successfully complete secondary school and to pursue postsecondary education

Program participants must also:

Meet specific income criteria established by the U.S. Department of Education|and/or Meet the requirement to be a potential first-generation college student (neither parent has a four-year college degree)

	Monday - Thursday
	7:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
	Friday
	7:30 A.M.- 2:00 P.M.
(Unless posted otherwise)

The WCC-Sparks Campus Upward Bound program was awarded a grant for September 2007–August 2011 in the amount of $283,142.00.  One hundred percent of the total costs of the Upward Bound program will be financed with federal money.  Zero percent of the total costs of our Upward Bound program will be financed by non-governmental sources.