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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: 1998
(1998-99)
1999
(1999-00)
2000
(2000-01)
2001
(2001-02)
2002
(2002-03)
APPROPRIATIONS($): 5,823,000 5,823,000 5,823,000 5,823,000 5,823,000
NUMBER ENROLLED: 15,192 summer 16,300 summer 16,570 summer 17,093 summer; 6,583 inter-session 17,173 summer; 6,821 inter-session
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: DEAN DOLORED STRAKER, City University of New York
PHONE NUMBER: 212-794-5326


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