Wayne State University has recently been awarded a four-year, $2.6 million grant from the United States Department of Education to launch a targeted Upward Bound Program.

Upward Bound prepares high school students to pursue a college education. The grant specifies a target area. Participants from Detroit and Inkster Public Schools must be from low-income families, or be potential first-generation college students.

Upward Bound provides free instruction in mathematics, laboratory science, composition, literature and foreign Languages. In addition, the program provides: tutorial programs, academic, personal and financial aid counseling, assistance preparing for college entrance examinations, a summer residential program, and visits to colleges and universities. The goal of Upward Bound is to increase the participants' rate of college enrollment and graduation.

The Upward Bound Program will be administered by Wayne's Academic College Enrichment Services department (ACCESS). The ACCESS department consists of seven programs, which annually promote educational opportunity and academic development among 6,000 disadvantaged youth and adults who have the skills and motivation to succeed in higher education.

For more information about Upward Bound, or ACCESS, please contact William Tandy, Upward Bound program coordinator, at (313) 577-1943. While the summer program is currently full, the program is accepting applications for later dates.

Wayne State University is a premier institution of higher education offering more than 350 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to more than 31,000 students in metropolitan Detroit.

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