Word: program
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early action admissions letters start arriving in mailboxes across the country, the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRP) must be celebrating. With minority early admissions up 14 percent from last year, the UMRP seems to be doing something right...
...When we were on the road in September andOctober [the people we talked to] felt thefinancial aid program was attractive andreinforced the idea that Harvard had a financialaid program that was competitive with many,"Fitzsimmons said...
...something about it. "It dawned on me that we had a pretty good level of character among the players, and because they are heroic figures to young people, they could make a difference in their lives," he says. Along with his wife Nancy, the coach initiated a mentoring program called TeamMates, pairing 25 of his Cornhuskers with 25 children. The goal was to have these college athletes-cum-mentors stay with their charges from the kids' first year in middle school through the last day of high school. Recalls former offensive guard Steve Volin of his coach: "He always stuck...
...original program promised to finance college for the kids--if they stayed in the program and out of trouble. Eighteen did go on to college; 22 completed TeamMates and 20 graduated from high school. One who made it to college--and onto the football team as a walk-on--was Sean Applegate. "Trouble always seemed to find me," he recalls. With a high school record marred by fights and suspensions, he was an ideal candidate for TeamMates. "I was given a great opportunity to change the direction I was going in," he allows. "Obviously, it's made a dramatic difference...
While most people are making lists of gifts to buy kith and kin this holiday season, three generous souls in Kennett Square, Pa., have been reviewing final plans for a brand-new after-school program, scheduled to open in January. John and Denise Wood, both 81, and Marshall Newton, 66, have been recruiting fellow retirees, along with high school and college students, to serve as volunteer instructors in a range of after-school activities--including computer sciences, drama, entrepreneurship, sewing, sculpture, chess and dance--for the greater Kennett community's middle school children...