Welcome to the SUNY Fredonia Upward
Bound Homepage!
Upward
Bound is one of the educational opportunity programs for low-income
Americans referred to as the TRIO Programs. The TRIO Programs
were originally established by the federal government to ensure
equal education opportunity regardless of race, ethnic background
or economic circumstance.
The
Upward Bound Program was created with the Economic Opportunity
Act of 1964, the original War on Poverty statute. In 1968 the
program was transferred to the Higher Education Act.
Upward Bound...fostering academic
and life success by encouraging and empowering high school students
in their pursuit of post secondary education.
The goal
of the program is to increase the rates at which participants
enroll in and graduate from institutions of postsecondary education.
Upward Bound is a precollege program designed to help economically
and academically disadvantaged students complete high school and
succeed in higher education.
The Upward
Bound Program at SUNY Fredonia was established in 1989. Since
its inception, it has been successfully funded during each grant
competition cycle.
Most recently
the program received approval for the 2003 to 2007 grant cycle.
The program at SUNY Fredonia is only one of 770 funded programs
across the nation.
Since
the Upward Bound Program began at SUNY Fredonia, it has and continues
to provide help to students in overcoming class, social and cultural
barriers to higher education.
