College Student Success Act

To provide grants to universities and colleges for the development of student success services that will improve college persistence and prepare students for the workplace.

8/3/2007--Introduced.
College Student Success Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to establish a pilot program awarding competitive, matching, Student Success grants to institutions of higher education in which, during the preceding three-year period, an average of at least 50% of entering first-year students were enrolled in developmental courses to bring their reading, writing, or mathematics skills up to college-level. Requires the grants to be used to help Pell grant eligible students persevere in postsecondary education, beginning from their first year of study. Requires such help to include the assignment of a Student Success Coach to every student participant to provide intensive career and academic advising, ongoing personal help in navigating college services, and assistance in connecting to community resources that can help students overcome family and personal challenges to success. Gives grant priority to schools proposing to replicate policies and practices that have proven effective in increasing persistence and completion by low-income students or students in need of developmental education. Provides that the size of each grant shall be based on the number of a grantee's student participants; but limits each school to no more than 200 participants each academic year. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to grantees who, after three years, are not significantly improving their student participants' perseverance in their studies.


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Sponsor

• Rep. John Yarmuth [D, KY-3]
• and 15 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Bruce Braley [D, IA-1]
  • Rep. Steve Cohen [D, TN-9]
  • Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
  • Rep. Keith Ellison [D, MN-5]
  • Rep. Raul Grijalva [D, AZ-7]
  • Rep. Phil Hare [D, IL-17]
  • Rep. Rush Holt [D, NJ-12]
  • Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D, TX-18]
  • Rep. William Jefferson [D, LA-2]
  • Rep. David Loebsack [D, IA-2]
  • Rep. James Moran [D, VA-8]
  • Rep. John Sarbanes [D, MD-3]
  • Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D, IL-9]
  • Rep. Robert Scott [D, VA-3]
  • Rep. Joe Sestak [D, PA-7]
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Committees

• House Education and Labor
• 1 more
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.3450

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August 03, 2007

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• Sep 19, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
• Aug 03, 2007: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
• Introduced on Aug 03, 2007.

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• Higher education
• Academic performance
• Budgets
• Children
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• College costs
• Community and school
• Compensatory education
• Curricula
• Day care
• Dropouts
• Education
• Education of the disadvantaged
• Educational accountability
• Educational counseling
• Federal aid to education
• Government information
• Government publicity
• Labor
• Mathematics
• Performance measurement
• Reading
• Scholarships
• Student aid
• Student employment
• Student transportation
• Transportation
• Vocational guidance
• Welfare

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