From cbrown at osrhe.edu Mon Jan 8 14:47:47 2007 From: cbrown at osrhe.edu (Brown, Cynthia) Date: Mon Jan 8 14:44:59 2007 Subject: [Okepas] Additional & clarifying information Message-ID: Greetings in the New Year, In the spirit of providing accurate, relevant and up-to-date information, the Student Preparation Team continues to offer our services to you by phone, email or in person. This purpose of this note is providing additional and clarifying information on two issues that came up during our Fall Workshops. 1. Academic Competitiveness Grants and Smart Grants "An Academic Competitiveness Grant will provide up to $750 for the first year of undergraduate study and up to $1,300 for the second year of undergraduate study to full-time students who are U.S citizens, eligible for a Federal Pell Grant, and who had successfully completed a rigorous high school program , as determined by the state or local education agency and recognized by the Secretary of Education. Second year students must also have maintained a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.0." Oklahoma's rigorous high school programs list - http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/about/ac-smart/ok06.doc "A National SMART Grant will provide up to $4,000 for each of the third and fourth years of undergraduate study to full-time students who are U.S. citizens, eligible for a Federal Pell Grant, and majoring in physical, life, or computer sciences, mathematics, technology, or engineering or in a foreign language determined critical to national security. The student must also have maintained a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.0 in coursework required for the major. The National SMART Grant award is in addition to the student's Pell Grant award." list of eligible majors - http://ifap.ed.gov/dpcletters/attachments/GENO615Attach1.pdf For the latest information on these two programs, watch: http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/NewPrograms.jsp 2. New ACE (Achieving Classroom Excellence) graduation requirements, Oklahoma's Promise-OHLAP requirements and college admission requirements For high school graduates in 2010 and thereafter, the 4 core (English, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies/History-Citizenship Skills) will be aligned for all three sets of curricular requirements. The Oklahoma's Promise-OHLAP curriculum will mirror the ACE college preparatory/work ready curriculum with the minor exception that the Oklahoma's Promise-OHLAP curriculum (and college admission curriculum) does not specifically mandate the half unit of Oklahoma History and half unit of U.S. Government within the History/Citizenship Skills category. As the college entrance requirements increase the science by 1 unit to 3 as is OHLAP and ACE, the "Other" category will decrease by 1 unit so that the total remains 15 units. Please let us know if you have questions or need information related to Student Preparation for college and the workplace as well as questions related to EXPLORE, PLAN and ACT. We are here to serve you as you work with students. Cindy Cynthia N. Brown, Ed.D. Director of Student Preparation Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104 Ph: 405-225-9156 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okepas/attachments/20070108/845ba270/attachment.html