教育部拨款：Pitt-Bradford 获260万美元助学生从大一起站稳脚跟
位于 Bradford 的 University of Pittsburgh at Bradford（Pitt-Bradford）获得一笔为期五年、260万美元的联邦拨款，用于帮助学生从入学起提高成功率。美国教育部（ED）本周一在其网站公布了这笔拨款，资金经教育部与劳工部的 Title III 加强机构计划（Strengthening Institutions Program）拨付，项目已于10月1日启动。
拨款将资助Project ACHIEVE 的计划：为新生打造更连贯的大一体验，强化数学辅导，扩大面向就业的实践学习机会，并帮助教师调整教学方法以适应今天的学生。学校将新增多个岗位，包括负责日常运行的项目主任，以及专责教师教学支持、数学辅导、大一项目与体验学习的 staff。计划还将投入教师与 staff 培训，应对超级智能快速改变教学环境，以及疫情高峰期未能到校上课的学生留下的发展影响。
校长 Richard Esch 表示，结合 Pitt 新推出的地区校区学费承诺，这笔拨款有望让 Pitt-Bradford 在为各收入水平学生提供高等教育机会方面走在前列；该承诺为家庭调整后总收入不超过7.5万美元的 Pennsylvania 学生免除学费。拨款首席研究员、学术成功与 advising 临时助理院长 David Fitz 说，小组讨论、动手学习与技术运用等互动教学方法已被证明能帮助大一学生成功，打牢基础有助于让更多学生坚持读下去。他称这笔拨款可能改变学校走向：美国东北部与中西部的适龄大学生人数持续下降，留校率是学校招生计划的关键，学校希望借此为今后20年竞争做准备。
Education Department Grant: Pitt-Bradford Receives $2.6 Million to Help Students Succeed From Their First Year
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (Pitt-Bradford), in Bradford, Pennsylvania, has received a five-year, $2.6 million federal grant aimed at boosting students' success from their first days on campus. The U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced the grant on its website on Monday. It was awarded through the Title III Strengthening Institutions Program of the Departments of Education and Labor, and the project began on October 1.
The grant will fund Project ACHIEVE, an initiative to build a more integrated first-year experience, expand hands-on, workforce-ready learning opportunities, strengthen mathematics tutoring, and help faculty adapt their teaching methods to better serve today's students. Carrying out the work will require several new positions, including a program director to oversee day-to-day operations and staff dedicated to faculty teaching support, math tutoring, first-year programming and experiential learning. The project will also invest in training for faculty and staff to keep pace with a landscape changing rapidly because of super intelligence and the lingering developmental effects on students who did not attend school in person during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Richard Esch, president of Pitt-Bradford, said that in combination with Pitt's new Regional Campus Tuition Pledge, the grant is poised to make the school a leader in providing access to higher education for students of all income levels. The pledge grants free tuition to qualifying Pennsylvania students with a family adjusted gross income of $75,000 or less. David Fitz, interim assistant dean of academic success and advising and the grant's principal investigator, said interactive teaching methods including group discussions, hands-on learning and technology are proven to help first-year students succeed, and that a solid academic foundation helps keep more students enrolled from one year to the next.
Retention is a critical piece of Pitt-Bradford's enrollment plan, as the number of college-age students continues to decline across the Northeast and Midwest. Fitz called the grant a potential game changer that positions the school to compete for the next 20 years in an increasingly crowded higher education landscape. It would not be the first transformational Title III grant for the campus: in the 1980s, a seven-year, $2.68 million grant allowed Pitt-Bradford to establish a computing and telecommunications office, add seven four-year science and math degrees and new concentrations, and create an academic center and an outreach program. The university said the new funding and the tuition pledge are intended to work together, widening access for lower-income families while giving students more academic support once they arrive on campus.
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