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Upward Bound is a federally funded educational program within the United States. The program is one of a cluster of programs referred to as TRIO, all of which owe their existence to the federal Higher Education Act. Upward Bound programs are implemented and monitored by the United States Department of Education. The goal of Upward Bound is to provide certain categories of high school students better opportunities for attending college. The categories of greatest concern are those with low income, those with parents who did not attend college, and those living in rural areas. The program works through individual grants, each of which covers a restricted geographic area and provide services to approximately 50 to 100 students annually.

Most Upward Bound programs combine two approaches to student contact:

1. a summer program where high school students take college prep classes and earn work experience at a college campus for six weeks
2. weekly follow up and possibly tutoring with students during the school year.

A study released by the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) in 2004 entitled A Profile of the Upward Bound Program: 2000-2001 provides a detailed analysis of program demographics. Considerable challenge has been made regarding the effectiveness of the program. However, the long term impacts of a social services program such as Upward Bound are very difficult to ascertain, and a recent attempt to do extensive controlled studies was cancelled due to concerns over the ethical ramifications of recruiting control students for a program knowing that they would never receive services.

The program was launched in the 1965 with an annual budget of circa $250,000,000. Awards are usually made to institutes of higher education (universities), but some awards have been made to other non-profit organizations such as tribal organizations. Each award made averages $4,691 per participant, with the most common award providing $220,000 per grantee in 2004 and $250,000 in 2007. Awards are for four or five years and are competitive. The law providing for Upward Bound is 34 CFR Ch. VI Pt. 645. As federal education grants, Upward Bound awards fall under EDGAR and OMB Circular A-21 financial guidelines.

Upward Bound grants are results-based, with the level of success determined largely from highly-structured annual reports compared to grant objectives.

There are three divisions of Upward Bound:

1. Upward Bound Classic for high school students
2. Veteran's Upward Bound for U.S. military veterans
3. Upward Bound Math and Science organized as regional centers for supporting these areas of study among high school students.

Upward Bound is part of the Federal TRIO Programs, which include Upward Bound, Veteran's Upward Bound, Talent Search, Student Support Services, Ronald McNair Post-Baccalaureate Program, and Upward Bound Math and Science.

Here is a list of some of the Upward Bound programs:

1. Lincoln Memorial University Upward Bound
2. Leeward Community College Upward Bound
3. University of Delaware Upward Bound
4. University of Minnesota Upward Bound
5. Northfield Mt. Hermon School Upward Bound
6. SwVCC Upward Bound
7. Houston Community College*Central Upward Bound
8. College of the Mainland Upward Bound
9. AACE Upward Bound
10. USF Upward Bound CP
11. NY Upward Bound (Genesee Community College/Wyoming County-Perry, Warsaw, Attica and Letchworth) The office for theses four areas is located in Warsaw.
12. Luther College Upward Bound CP
13. Carl Sandburg College Upward Bound CP
14. Wittenberg University Upward Bound
15. East Tennessee State University Upward Bound
16. University of Vermont Upward Bound
17. University of Maine Upward Bound
18. Ohio University Upward Bound
19. Shawnee State University (Ohio) Upward Bound Program
20. RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE UPWARD BOUND CP
21. UTEP Upward Bound Program CP
22. Coe College Upward Bound
23. Bowdoin College Upward Bound
24. ISU Upward Bound
25. Nevada Upward Bound
26. University of Southern Maine Upward Bound
27. University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI) Upward Bound
28. WVU Tech Upward Bound CP
29. Eastern Kentucky University UB [1]
30. Harvey Mudd College
31. Rogers State University Upward Bound
32. Oklahoma State University Upward Bound
33. Michigan State University Upward Bound
34. Pikeville College Upward Bound
35. Virginia Tech Upward Bound
36. Baldwin Wallace College Upward Bound
37. Western Nebraska CC Upward Bound
38. Southwestern University Upward Bound
39. California State University, Long Beach Upward Bound
40. Occidental College Upward Bound
41. California State University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Upward Bound
42. University of California, Irvine Upward Bound
43. Indiana Wesleyan University Upward Bound
44. University of Oklahoma, Sooner Upward Bound
45. Cornell University Upward Bound
46. University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
47. Pima Community College Upward Bound
48. Western Kentucky University Upward Bound
49. North Carolina State University Upward Bound

See also

• Compensatory education
• Government
• Government programs

External links

• North Seattle Community College Upward Bound
• The Upward Bound home page
• The AACE Upward Bound Home Page( Branch in San Francisco)
• Council for Opportunity in Education
• Massachusetts Educational Opportunity Association
• Plattsburgh NY Upward Bound
• Western Iowa Tech Community College Upward Bound
• Southeastern Community College Upward Bound