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Show « newy MONDAY* APRIL 16 • 2007 Grant gives students a hand Iraq memorial up not a handout From Iraq • A1 Jared Magill • "HnvsWriter": - V Dr. E. Mark Bezzant, vice president of the UVSC School, College and University Partnership program looks forward to the school's transition to university status. "One of the things we will do is to reach out as a regional university to partner with the community to help solve problems," Bezzant said. The UVSC School, College and University Partnership program is a charitable organization whose mission is to assist college, high school and junior high students, struggling with grades and other hardships, in realizing their academic potential. The program is designed around a unique approach involving students and parents who team with counselors and tutors from the partnership to develop, implement and follow-up on a course of action leading to success in the student's academic plan. Bezzant said, "I'm of a firm for kids, it's the cheapest also used to provide college,. scholarships to-low-income-? Relief that all children can ? way to go," Bezzant said. .students. : t ^ i ^ '• 'V:,..v "It's cheaper to give a ^succeed and they want; to kid a scholarship to Penn GEAR UP offers both succeed." Originally targeted at State than it is to give them state and partnership grants. high school students in a scholarship to the state State grants are competitive six-year matching grants grades 9-12, the partnership penn." program began in 1991 when Two years ago, UVSC's that must include both an UVSC teamed up with the partnership program was early intervention compoUS Department of Educa- given funding by an $18.6 nent and a scholarship comtion and the Alpine, Provo, million grant from the US ponent. Partnership grants Wasatch and Nebo school Department of Education's are competitive six-year districts to help 200 students Gaining Early Awareness matching grants that support who were failing in school. and Readiness for Under- early intervention programs . At that time, there were only graduate Programs (GEAR designed to increase col12 such partnerships in the UP). It was the first grant of lege attendance and success entire U.S. and, according its kind ever awarded in the and raise the expectations of low-income students. to Bezzant, 90 percent of state of Utah. the students the partnership GEAR UP is a discretion- "The partnership opens up a targeted were successful at ary grant program designed multiplicity of initiatives to completing high school and to increase the number of students focused around the moving on to some form of low-income students who same basic model of reachpost-secondary education. are prepared to enter and suc- ing out to help young people," Bezzant said. "Some After experiencing some ceed in postsecondary edukids just don't know their early uncertainty, the part- cation. GEAR UP provides goals; they don't even dare nership came to realize the six-year grants to states and to dream, they're just surhigh level of potential many partnerships to provide serviving. But if you help them of their students possessed vices at high poverty middle find goals that are meanand since 1991 it has helped and high schools. Grantees ingful to them, you just get thousands more students serve an entire cohort of amazing results." recover their sense of opti- students beginning no later mism and hope for a better than the seventh grade and Bezzant indicated that, follow them through high although the GEAR UP future. ".If you get the right help school. GEAR UP funds are grants are a part of the Bush administration's "No Child Left Behind" act, those involved with the partnership program view their work as an investment in the welfare of the local community that stems from a very deep and genuine sense of caring for people. He also indicated that as UVSC matures, the partnership intends to expand its mission. an event designed to either supj£)rt or protest the Iraq event has been good because we tried so hard to make it bipartisan," French said. "Within our organizing committee there are individuals that believe we should continue the course in Iraq and there are other individuals that feel we should not." French said, "Students have come up to us during the course of this memorial and expressed their thanks for memorializing the dead - students that support the war and students that don't support the war." French pointed out that although the names of 3,292 killed United States troops were read aloud the memorial does not even take into account the many more thousands wounded and maimed. The United States does not prioritize recording or accounting for Iraqi deaths as it does United States troop casualties. Before the United States led invasion of Iraq in 2003 the United Nations projected the war would cause the deaths of a half a million Iraqis. After the invasion, the United Nations began the task of attempting to compile Iraqi deaths when the United States made clear that it would not. Compiling records from Iraqi morgues and government and health officials, the United Nations placed the number of killed Iraqis at 34,000 in 2006 before Iraqi Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki directed Iraq's health ministry to stop providing numbers of killed Iraqis to the United Nations. The job of accounting for killed Iraqi civilians and soldiers has fallen to human rights groups and academic institutions. In October of 2006 John Hopkins University released a study, which estimated the number of Iraqi deaths to be above 600,000. In the same month, the British medical journal Lancet confirmed that number. Alex Rodriguez, who attended the memorial Wednesday, said, "I sit here and I hear the names and it hits me. These people are real. It's a lotta names." Now Meeting On Campus in the Student Center ballroom Sundays at 11 A M Former UVSC trustee appointed to board mm From TRUSTEE • A2 V^ JL 1 1 TV JL f- Join us fora Christ-Centered. Biblica Message and Contemporary Worship! make them attractive to graduating high school seniors along with those who want to further their education after working for a few years," Zenger served on the UVSC Board of Trustees from 1997-2005. He has also served as chair of UVSC's Business School Advisory Council and co-chair of the National Presidential Advisory Board. Zenger* a nationally-recognized leadership development consultant and best selling author, has founded and served as president and CEO of several executive education companies, including ZengerlFolkman, Provant and Zenger-Miller. He has also served as chairman of the Times Mirror Training Group, and as a vice president of Syntex Corp. He has published numerous books textbooks and articles, including the best selling book, "Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders." He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brigham Young University, an MBA from UCLA and a doctorate of business administration from the University of Southern California. He was a faculty member at USC and also taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. In 2006 he and his wife Holly were awarded honorary doctoral degrees from UVSC. 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