Southeastern Massachusetts University - Scrimshaw Yearbook (North Dartmouth, MA)

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A Jose IVI. Pacheco g David J Packard Charles W Page adults that, in our society, is pretty much restricted to high school students who are in college prep courses. So the E.O.C. opens up that counseling to a vast number of people. The College Now project will have 250 students in it by September. The Upward Bound project services approximately 90 high school students. Talent Search is counseling about 600 people and E.O.C. this past year provided some sort of services to about 8,000 people. We had about 2,000 counselors and actually placed a little over 7,000 people into high educational institutes, just thru the E.O.C. So all told on a yearly basis these projects probably assist about l,200 people to get into colleges and universities, who would not otherwise have had the chance to do that simply because the way in, the access would've been closed to them. And, essentially I oversee these programs. lt's quite a large enterprise, for example,l have a staff of 60 working this summer, however, except for the College Now program most of these programs don't have that much impact, directly on SMU student They have a bigger impact on the outside community. Chris: Have you had any students graduate from here that have gone thru your programs. David' Yes, College Now has had 43 or 44 graduates a number of whom became affiliated with College Now thru the Upward Bound program. Chris: Do you find a great difference between the College Now students and the regular admissions students? David: Not after they're here. Initially we do because the College Now students would not have been eligible for regular admissions so if it weren't for the program they would not have had the opportunity to come. Once the students get here, particularly after the first year which can be a little difficult for people, there isn't any way of telling how the students got here. We've had a number of honor roll students every semester. . -L ' DianalVl Pereira D