Friday, April 26, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
POTSDAM -- Clarkson University will receive roughly $266,684 per year for five years from the Department of Education to assist poor and disabled students, the school said. The money will come to the …
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POTSDAM -- Clarkson University will receive roughly $266,684 per year for five years from the Department of Education to assist poor and disabled students, the school said.
The money will come to the school through its TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) Program.
SSS provides students from disadvantaged backgrounds access to tutoring, academic advising, financial literacy and financial aid information, individualized mentoring and graduate school awareness, Clarkson said.
Clarkson's SSS Program targets students who are low-income, first generation or have a documented disability and show academic need. The program focuses on building cohorts of first- and second-year students, as data shows these are the critical years to program completion, the school said.
Clarkson claims its student body comes mostly from middle- to lower-income families. In the 2013-2014 school year, 43 percent of the undergraduate population met at least one of the criteria for SSS participation, the school said.
The funds, awarded through a grant competition, give colleges opportunities for academic development, and to assist students with basic college requirements.
“Clarkson University is very pleased to receive this funding from the Department of Education for Student Support Services. We are committed to retaining and graduating the participants in SSS -- a key resource to the University with a proven track record of success,” said Associate Vice President of Student Success, Diversity and Inclusion Catherine McNamara.
Clarkson has participated in the Student Support Services Program for 34 years.
“The North Country is home to many excellent institutions of higher education and I applaud the U.S. Department of Education for awarding these grants,” said Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a Republican. “As a Member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, ensuring that our students have an opportunity to achieve a college degree is a top priority of mine in Congress and I know these grants will go a long way to helping students succeed.”
