CWU and YVCC receive $3 million grant for low-income students
October 14, 2015
Central and Yakima Valley Community College (YVCC) are receiving more than $3 million from a federal grant, according to KIMA TV.
The Department of Education Title V Developing Hispanic-Serving Institution Cooperative Grant titled “Finish What You Started” awarded both schools the amount of $650,000 per year for the next five years, reported KVEW TV.
This is part of the effort to develop Hispanic-serving institutions across the country. However, this grant is not just for Hispanic students, it is for all low-income students attending Central and YVCC.
According to KVEW TV, the funding is available to institutions that serve a large number of low-income students, have funding per student below the national average and have a Hispanic student population of at least 25 percent.
Central will partner with YVCC to analyze and improve student support services.
Additionally, YVCC and Central will work to encourage enrollment and degree completion, identify and work with students who have dropped out of college and want to complete their degrees and develop transfer pathways from associate degrees to bachelor degrees, KIMA TV reported.
Central will hire a data analyst to look at retention rates, as well as a transfer analyst to assist students in the transfer process, according to The Yakima Herald Republic.
Richard Wilson • Jul 17, 2016 at 8:36 am
We are caucasian, I am a widower, retired, disabled(by-pass surgery)and on limited, fixed income of SSI. My 15 year old daughter has plans of doing the Running Start Program at YVCC starting in 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 high school years and she has plans to get into the Veterinary Program at YVCC after graduating from high school in 2019. Then, after this, she has plans of continuing her education to get her Veterinary Doctorate Degree at Washington State University in Pullman, WA. Because we are low income, we are looking for every way possible to fund her higher education plans, including the ability to buy her expensive college school books and supplies every school quarter. I realize that we will be ok once she graduates from high school because with her being an A and B student, she will qualify for financial aid and scholarship programs, but we have some concerns for the Running Start Program period of her education. Would we qualify for funding with this $3 million dollar grant to help us to fund her plans for college during Running Start Program?