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TWD Benefits
The electrical engineering and computer science programs have used grant funds for the following activities:
- Recruiting high school students through mentoring programs for students and teachers
- Increasing diversity by targeting first-generation college students
- Expanding scholarship and on-campus student-employment programs
- Time management and web-based quality of learning programs for students
- Restructured freshman course offerings with higher faculty/student ratios, tenured faculty teaching, project-based courses, etc.
- Curriculum and technology assistance to ease transfer into four-year institutions
- Summer Camps for high school students
- Establishing off-campus facilities and after-hour programs for professional students
- Increasing summer course offerings
Few of the students who were targets of this program are expected to graduate before spring 2007, and the 14-year-old student targeted in 2007 will not graduate before 2015. Over the 15-year period from enactment of the legislation until graduation of the prospective students reached by the latest grant, market and other powerful forces are creating significant fluctuations in the number of graduates. Thus, the direct impact of the TWD program upon number of graduates is not likely ever to be measurable. However, project leaders estimate that the grants awarded through FY 2005 have reached about 65,800 students and teachers at an average cost of about $150 each. The effects of those contacts will be highly varied.
| Total | Computer Science | Electrical Engineering | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Grants | 72 | 25 | 47 |
| Total Award Amount | $14.1 million | $5.26 million | $8.79 million |
| Percent Spent | 70 % | 77 % | 66 % |
| High school students/teachers involve | 18,200 | 9,190 | 8,980 |
| Entering students involved | 16,600 | 7,800 | 8,790 |
| Progressing students involved | 19,000 | 3,960 | 15,030 |
| Advanced students involved | 9,000 | 3,530 | ,460 |
| Graduated students involved | 3,100 | 950 | 2,100 |
| Total number of students involved | 65,800 | 25,400 | 40,300 |
| Cost per student involved | $150 | $160 | $140 |
This page updated last on October 26, 2006.
