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Upward Bound is a federally funded educational program within the United States. The program is one of a cluster of programs referred to as TRIO, all of which owe their existence to the federal Higher Education Act. Upward Bound programs are implemented and monitored by the United States Department of Education. The goal of Upward Bound is to provide certain categories of high school students better opportunities for attending college. The categories of greatest concern are those with low income, those with parents who didn't attend college, and those living in rural areas. The program works through individual grants, each of which covers a restricted geographic area and provide services to approximately 50 to 100 students annually. Most Upward Bound programs combine two approaches to student contact:

a summer program where high school students take college prep classes and earn work experience at a college campus for six weeks
weekly follow up and possibly tutoring with students during the school year.

A study released by the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) in 2004 entitled A Profile of the Upward Bound Program: 2000-2001

provides a detailed analysis of program demographics. Considerable challenge has been made regarding the effectiveness of the program. However, the long term impacts of a social services program such as Upward Bound are very difficult to acertain, and a recent attempt to do extensive controlled studies was cancelled due to concerns over the ethical ramifications of recruiting control students for a program knowing that they'd never receive services.
   The program was launched in the 1965 with an annual budget of circa $250,000,000. Awards are usually made to institutes of higher education (universities), but some awards have been made to other non-profit organizations such as tribal organizations. Each award made averages $4,691 per participant, with the most common award providing $220,000 per grantee in 2004 and $250,000 in 2007. Awards are for four or five years and are competitive. The law providing for Upward Bound is 34 CFR Ch. VI Pt. 645. As federal education grants, Upward Bound awards fall under EDGAR and OMB Circular A-21 financial guidelines.
   Upward Bound grants are results-based, with the level of success determined largely from highly-structured annual reports compared to grant objectives.
   There are three divisions of Upward Bound:

Upward Bound Classic for high school students

Veteran's Upward Bound for U.S. military veterans

Upward Bound Math and Science organized as regional centers for supporting these areas of study among high school students. Upward Bound is part of the Federal TRIO Programs, which include Upward Bound, Veteran's Upward Bound, Talent Search, Student Support Services, Ronald McNair Post-Baccalaureate Program, and Upward Bound Math and Science. Here is a list of some of the Upward Bound programs:

University of Delaware Upward Bound

University of Minnesota Upward Bound

Northfield Mt. Hermon School Upward Bound

SwVCC Upward Bound

Houston Community College*Central Upward Bound

AACE Upward Bound

USF Upward Bound CP

NY Upward Bound (Genesee Community College/Wyoming County-Perry, Warsaw, Attica and Letchworth) The office for theses four areas is located in Warsaw.

Luther College Upward Bound CP

Carl Sandburg College Upward Bound CP

Wittenberg University Upward Bound

East Tennessee State University Upward Bound

University of Vermont Upward Bound

University of Maine Upward Bound

Ohio University Upward Bound

Shawnee State University (Ohio) Upward Bound Program

RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE UPWARD BOUND CP

UTEP Upward Bound Program CP

Coe College Upward Bound

Bowdoin College Upward Bound

ISU Upward Bound

Nevada Upward Bound

University of Southern Maine Upward Bound

University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI) Upward Bound

WVU Tech Upward Bound CP

Eastern Kentucky University UB (External Link

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Harvey Mudd College

Rogers State University Upward Bound

Oklahoma State University Upward Bound

Michigan State University Upward Bound

Pikeville College Upward Bound

Virginia Tech Upward Bound

Baldwin Wallace College Upward Bound

Western Nebraska CC Upward Bound

Southwestern University Upward Bound

California State University, Long Beach Upward Bound

Occidental College Upward Bound

California State University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Upward Bound

University of California, Irvine Upward Bound

Indiana Wesleyan University Upward Bound

University of Maryland, Baltimore County Upward Bound

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