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State grant will allow St. Olaf to expand mentoring to school-age kids

By Amy Gage
November 30, 2003

St. Olaf College has been awarded a two-year, $120,000 grant by the State of Minnesota Higher Education Services Office for the Mentoring and Parent Program (MAPP), part of Minnesota's Intervention for College Attendance Program (ICAP).

The grant will be used to pair 200 St. Olaf students and 85 alumni with participants at middle and high schools in St. Paul, Red Wing and Minneapolis. The money also will be used to involve parents in the educational life of their children.

Designed to enhance TRiO services, the program prepares first-generation, low-income, traditionally underrepresented students for college attendance. Earlier in the academic year, the TriO/Upward Bound program received an additional $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.