HIGHER EDUCATION -EXECUTIVE BUDGET BILL*
[* This is the proposed new language for the KCP Initiative portion of the Annual Higher Education Appropriations Act for the state fiscal year to begin October 1, 2005.]
Education
Goal: Improve Student Achievement-
The Martin Luther King-Cesar Chavez-Rosa Parks program, intended to increase minority participation in higher education, has been restructured into a competitive grant program to better focus on results. This $5.1 million restructured program will continue to encourage under-represented minority students to attend and complete college. Universities and colleges will have flexibility to select research-based models that will work best on their campuses. However, a college or university will be required to match state funds, and the program participants will be tracked over the course of their collegiate careers to evaluate the results of the spending.
See following link for entire document:
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/B1-7_115971_7.pdf
(See page B6 and B7)
Sec. 118. MARTIN LUTHER KING,JR. - CESAR CHAVEZ - ROSA PARKS PROGRAM
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Cesar Chavez Rosa Parks
education opportunity grant program................. $ 4,998,300
Morris Hood, Jr. educator development program.......... 148,600
GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ 5,146,900
Sec.501. (1) Included in part 1 is funding for the Martin Luther King,
Jr. Cesar Chavez Rosa Parks education opportunity grant program. The
purpose of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Cesar Chavez Rosa Parks
education opportunity grant program is to increase the participation of
underrepresented minority students and to ensure their success in
postsecondary education institutions.
(2) Awards shall be made to Michigan public community colleges and
universities for programs to assist underrepresented minority high school
students to realize the economic benefit of a college education, to improve
retention and success of underrepresented minority students in college, and
to help underrepresented minority students graduate.
(3) An award made under this program to any 1 institution shall not be
greater than $150,000.00 and the amount awarded shall be matched on a 50% state, 50% college or university basis.
(4) The program shall be administered by the Michigan department of
labor and economic growth.
(5) Each award recipient shall provide an annual report in a form and
manner determined by the Michigan department of labor and economic growth that tracks each student served in the program and specifies if the student enrolled in a postsecondary education program made satisfactory educational progress, or graduated.
(6) Notwithstanding the award limitation in subsection (3), any
remaining funding not allocated under the initial awards may be awarded to
an institution submitting an initial proposal that exceeds this limitation
or a subsequent proposal for an expanded program.