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PROGRAM
UNIVERSITY SKILLS IMMERSION PROGRAM
PROGRAM INFORMATION
POPULATION SERVED: Adults
SERVICES PROVIDED: Counseling, stipend, literacy and English as a Second Language instruction, life skills instruction, and tutoring
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY: CUNY
ELIGIBLE SERVICE PROVIDERS: CUNY
SOURCE OF FUNDING: State
AUTHORIZATION: State Budget
DESCRIPTION: Provides intensive remediation to students entering CUNY senior and community colleges. A winter intersession program, begun in 1989, is shorter than the summer program and does not provide college credit.
PROGRAM DATA
FISCAL YEAR: 1996
(1996-97)
1997
(1997-98)
1998
(1998-99)
1999
(1999-00)
2000
(2000-01)
APPROPRIATIONS($): 5,823,000 5,823,000 5,823,000 5,823,000 5,823,000
NUMBER ENROLLED: 11,710 summer; n/a inter-session 14,637 summer; 5,762 inter-session 15,192 summer 16,300 summer 16,570 summer
OUTCOME DATA: Program completion rates for both summer and intersession programs have consistently ranged between 90-96%. Detailed data on student progress in achieving basic skills proficiency are available in annual program evaluations.
CONTACT
NAME/AGENCY: DR. DONNA MORGAN, City University of New York
PHONE NUMBER: 212-794-5523