[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 23 (Monday, March 6, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E227]
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                        HONORING HARCUM COLLEGE

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                         HON. JOSEPH M. HOEFFEL

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, March 6, 2000

  Mr. HOEFFEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today on the occasion of National 
TRIO day to congratulate the Upward Bound Program at Harcum College in 
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. National TRIO Day celebrates 35 years of 
programs aimed at expanding opportunities for disadvantaged students to 
attend college. Upward Bound is a wonderful, practical program that 
challenges and motivates students to achieve the necessary skills for 
higher education. TRIO's Upward Bound is essential for attainment of 
the critical goal of ensuring access to higher education for low-income 
and first-generation college students.
  Harcum College has an outstanding record of success with Upward Bound 
for the ten years since the program began. This year, Harcum was 
awarded a prestigious five-year grant for scoring one hundred percent 
on their program proposals. Harcum College Upward Bound serves 75 
students from three high schools in Philadelphia. The vast majority of 
participants are low-income and the first generation of their families 
to attend college. In the past five years one hundred percent of all 
high school students participating in Harcum's Upward Bound program 
graduated from high school and seventy-five percent were accepted to 
and enrolled in a four year college or university.
  I applaud Harcum College's commitment to providing students from all 
backgrounds with an opportunity to excel in education and to prepare 
those students for the future.

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