Dixie College Rebounder-Upward Bound program
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the Dixie College Rebounder-Upward Bound program’s newsletters and papers related to the program. Upward Bound is a pre-college academic program designed to provide qualifying high school students with motivation, skills, and support necessary to obtain a college degree.
The newsletters were published each summer for the high school students; sophomores, juniors, and seniors in the area. The newsletter encouraged enrollment in the Upward Bound Program which provided first generation college students a college education, a head start with college credit, skills necessary to be successful in college, and earn college credit at Dixie College. Also included are the proposals and reports documenting the Upward Bound Program. The material created is from 1974-1989.
The Dixie College Rebounder-Upward Bound program newsletter collection is arranged in two series.
The Newsletter Series contains newsletters documenting the Dixie College Rebounder-Upward Bound program at Dixie College in the years 1987-1989 in St. George, Utah. The newsletters are printed each summer from June-July of each year. The articles include; highlights of high school graduates, rebound students, completion of new schools in the area, college campus related events, new programs, faculty/staff working with the students enrolled in the Rebounder-Upward Bound program, and the college president’s message. They are arranged in chronological order.
The Proposal and Reports Series contains the proposals and reports and for the Upward Bound program. The papers include the agendas, goals and objectives, training materials, expectations and guidelines used for the program and for the tutors that were hired to recruit high school students for the Upward Bound program. It contains the agendas, proposals and reports, contact information of the Upward Bound high school coordinator, names and the number of applicants from each school, and letters from the principal’s in the area stating how much the program has helped the students at their school. The material is dated from 1974-1976 and are arranged in chronological order.
Dates
- Creation: 1987 - 1989
Creator
- Dixie College. (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open and freely available to researchers during Special Collections hours or by appointment. Researchers must complete an Application for Use and show a photo ID prior to accessing materials.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright held by Utah Tech University Library Special Collections and Archives. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be obtained from the Special Collections and Archives.
Biographical / Historical
The Upward Bound program was established at Dixie College in 1983 by Mr. Swan, director of Upward Bound. It is a federally funded program for a limited number of high school students who have the recognized potential of becoming college graduates. Because they have not had any previous family members that have graduated from college, prospects of that individual attending college are minimal. That person can, then, be accepted into the Upward Bound program.
Dixie College’s goal is to ensure that students in Upward Bound receive necessary skills to succeed in college. Students can actually earn college credit, become better acquainted with college life, receive insight on career selection, and get an opportunity to mingle with students from other schools.
Students that attend the Dixie College Rebounder-Upward Bound Program are from High Schools in the area including: Pine View, Dixie, Enterprise, Hurricane, Virgin Valley, Kanab, and Freedonia High Schools. Seniors who were selected show good potential, and their teachers identify them as being capable. Students chosen are those who generally would not go to college.
Each summer students come to Dixie College for a six-week program on campus, which consists of 12-15 credits plus work four hours daily. At the end of three high school years, a student may have 45 hours, or a full year of college completed. A graduating Upward Bound student will return more than it cost to put him through the program by paying back to the Federal government a difference in taxes 39 times that he would have, only graduating from high school. The program is regarded with respect and admiration because of the direct and positive way it goes affecting the lives of many in a positive way.
Full Extent
.25 Linear Feet (1 gray half letter document case.)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
The Dixie College Rebounder-Upward Bound program collection consists of papers regarding the program and newsletters published for the high school students in the southern Utah area by Dixie College in St. George, Utah. The collection is from 1974-1989.
Arrangement
The Dixie College Rebounder-Upward Bound program newsletter collection is arranged in two series. Series 1. Newsletters, 1987-1989. They are arranged in chronological order. Series 2. Proposals and Reports, 1974-1977. They are arranged in chronological order.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Tammy Gentry, Special Collections Paraprofessional
- Date
- April & October 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Utah Tech University Special Collections and Archives Repository
330 Holland Centennial Commons
225 South 700 East
Saint George 84770 United States
(435) 634-2087
specialcollections@utahtech.edu