Lake Superior College will receive $250,000 a year for the next five years in the form of a federal grant for LSC’s Upward Bound program. Upward Bound is an academic support program for high school students funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Upward Bound is designed to provide assistance to high school students whose goal is to complete a postsecondary education.

The LSC grant was funded for five years instead of the usual four years because the college’s application scored within the top 10 percent of nearly 1000 eligible applications in the country. The funding amount for the next year will be $250,000 even though the grant will not go into effect until September 1, 2008. The grant will end August 31, 2013. “We serve an average of 50 high school students each year through Upward Bound,”? said Jeannette Turchi, LSC program director. “We’re grateful for the extended funding.”?

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