ACES Program

Attention first-year first-generation Adrian College Students

The Wal-Mart College Success Award grant is being used to establish the Adrian College Educational Success Project (ACES). ACES is designed to increase the success of first-generation college students by providing a close mentoring relationship between first-generation students and faculty/ staff members who were first-generation students themselves during the students first year of college.

Successful applicants (called 2008 ACES cohorts) will be expected to complete two years of the two semester program. During the first year, ACES cohorts will meet a minimum of eight times each semester with your faculty mentor, attending eight workshops, three of which will be during the first semester on the dates listed below, and completing two surveys based on a Habits of Mind workbook that will be the focus of the workshops and mentoring program. Upon completion of the program requirements at the end of each semester, students will be awarded a $350 voucher for textbooks through the Arrington Bookstore. During the second year of the project, the 2008 ACES cohort will partner with faculty presenters to co-facilitate the second series of Habits of Mind workshops, presented for the 2009 ACES cohort.

Only first generation first-year college students are eligible for the program. Qualified students need to please complete the ACES student application and return to Mary Ann Bone in the Administration Building by Sept. 29.