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Show CSU Initiates Upward Bound Project James D. Condie and Wayne Mifflin, director and assistant director of the Upward Bound Project to be initiated this summer at College of Southern South-ern Utah, have plans to visit 22 high schools in southern Utah, eastern Nevada, and northern Arizona to recruit applicants for the program. Director Condie said that schools and community agencies ag-encies will be contacted to recommend re-commend students for the special training. Those eligible eligi-ble should have finished the 10th or 11th grades, but not the 12th grade. He added that any individual may suggest names of students by contact-Iner contact-Iner himself or Mr. Mifflin at CSU. Students whose names have been suggested will be contacted con-tacted and interviewed with their families before being admitted ad-mitted to the program. Those accepted for the training will live on the CSU campus from June 9 to Aug. 3, 1968, and will take academic and activity activ-ity classes. They will be provided pro-vided with a weekly stipend for personal and school expenses, ex-penses, Director Condie said. During the academic year the students will meet once a week In their high school with members of the Upward Bound faculty. They will al- ..Ici U PCTT so visit the CSU campus approximately ap-proximately once a month during this period. Director Condie said that enllrpp and high school faculty fac-ulty interested in being considered con-sidered as instructors in the Upward Bound Proiect should contact his office. Subiect matter mat-ter in which instructors are needed includes English, general mathematics, social sciences, life sciences, and other liberal arts subjects. The objective of the pro-ject pro-ject is to provide college programs pro-grams for low income students stu-dents with talent and ability. |