{"id":4171,"date":"2012-05-10T20:33:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T20:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2012-05-11T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T15:56:09","slug":"upward-bound-gets-funds-to-prepare-students-for-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2012\/05\/10\/upward-bound-gets-funds-to-prepare-students-for-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Upward Bound Gets Funds to Prepare Students for College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4172\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2012\/05\/UBgroup.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2012\/05\/UBgroup.jpg 458w, https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2012\/05\/UBgroup-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/>KSC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keene.edu\/upward\/\">Upward Bound<\/a> program prepares high school students for success in high school and college by building the academic skills, motivation, and self-confidence necessary for success in college. Funding for the program comes from the United States Department of Education, so the Upward Bound experience is free for students from low-income families.<\/p>\n<p>In these days of economic turmoil, funding for important programs such as this is uncertain, at best. When NH Senator Jeanne Shaheen was on campus in early May to discuss student-loan debt, Upward Bound staffers contacted her to express their funding concerns.\u00a0 The following week, Senator Shaheen reported that the Dept. of Ed. announced renewed funding to the UB programs at both UNH and KSC. UNH will receive nearly $478,000, while Keene will receive nearly $422,000. According to UB\u2019s Assistant Director, <strong>Beth Zinn<\/strong>, this will allow the program to serve 94 high school students and their families from eight local high schools in southeastern Vermont and southwestern New Hampshire\u2014more students than it could serve before. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to know that we now have the money to continue to serve these awesome kids,\u201d Zinn said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KSC&#8217;s Upward Bound program prepares high school students for success in high school and college by building the academic skills, motivation, and self-confidence necessary for success in college. Funding for the program comes from the United States Department of Education, so the Upward Bound experience is free for students from low-income families. In these days &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2012\/05\/10\/upward-bound-gets-funds-to-prepare-students-for-college\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Upward Bound Gets Funds to Prepare Students for College<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":4172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4176,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}