Committed to Excellence and Opportunity Program
University of Michigan-Flint
- Program Flint Area
- Program Area Revitalizing the Education Continuum
- Grant Amount $415,700
- Grant Period June 1, 2014–May 31, 2015
- Location Flint, MI, United States
- Geographic Focus Flint
About this grant
This grant will enable the University of Michigan-Flint, via the Office of Educational Opportunity Initiatives, to continue the Committed to Excellence and Opportunity Program for pre-college students from the Flint, Beecher, and Westwood Heights school districts. Participating students have increased their grade-point averages and benefited from numerous tutoring and mentoring activities that have aided in their academic development. Seventy-two percent of the students from the pilot cohort in 2010 are still enrolled and are set to graduate and enter college in 2014. Recommended support will allow the program to expand from 170 to 520 students. This expansion is made possible through the Office of Educational Opportunity Initiatives’ restructuring that brought all of its pre-college programs under the Committed to Excellence and Opportunity program. This year will mark the first time the program will be at full scale for grades 6-12.