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DEF College/Career Access Program Expands to Serve More Students

(November 27, 2007) The Delmarva Education Foundation College/Career Access Program (DEF-CCAP) has expanded to serve more local students by securing additional grant funding from the Rural Maryland Council and the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC). The purpose of DEF-CCAP is to help students learn about, aspire to, prepare for, apply to, finance, and complete college or other post-secondary educational training.

All students are eligible for services but low-income, minority, and first-generation students are especially targeted – to reach out to those who might not otherwise graduate from high school and go on to college.

DEF began this important program with a 2006-2007 start-up grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to serve juniors and seniors in Wicomico High School in Wicomico County and Washington High School in Somerset County. For the 2007-2008 school year DEF is honored to be receiving substantial support from the Maryland Higher Education Commission via the University of Maryland Eastern Shore to provide DEF-CCAP services to the GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) student cohorts (currently 9th graders) in the aforementioned schools plus Crisfield High School in Somerset County. In 2007, DEF has also been awarded grants totaling almost $30,000 from the Rural Maryland Council to enable DEF-CCAP advisors to serve the sophomore classes as well as juniors and seniors through the current school year at these schools.

DEF-CCAP services include career exploration and interest assessments, personalized motivational strategies to encourage success in high school, awareness of the benefits of higher education and taking challenging courses like AP classes in high school, college fair visits and virtual college tours, resume-writing and work skills advise, study skills and test prep tactics, financial literacy workshops, college application assistance, financial aid information and scholarship searches. Through the MHEC grant we will also be providing tutors for students preparing for the High School Assessments and parent basic computer skills classes for GEAR UP families.

(January 19, 2006)

The Delmarva Education

Foundation welcomes

Michael A. Nugent, Ph.D.

as the Director for its new

College/Career Access Program (CCAP),

made possible by a grant from

the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

DEF Awarded College/Career Access Program Grant

Program will help students pursue postsecondary education

(January 1, 2006) The Delmarva Education Foundation (DEF) has been awarded a $90,000 Start-up Grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to implement a College/Career Access Program (CCAP) over two years, starting with pilot programs in Somerset and Wicomico counties. Click here for more information.

(December 6, 2005) LANSDOWNE , VA  - Recognizing that college access programs can dramatically boost the college-going potential of Maryland 's students, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is investing $1 million during 2005 and 2006 to help build such programs across the state. Today the Foundation is inaugurating this funding with two grants worth $95,000 each to communities in Montgomery, Somerset, and Wicomico Counties. The programs will use the grants to help more students, especially those from low-income areas, prepare to attend postsecondary education.

Click here for more about DEF's College Access Start-up grant award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

(August 3, 2005) The Delmarva Education Foundation (DEF) has been awarded a $5,000 Planning Grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to design a college access program for students in our region, starting with pilot programs in Wicomico and Somerset counties. Click here to read more.