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Web Site: www.vanderbilt.edu/projectgrad/

Department: Project GRAD Nashville

Key Data: This site is designed to help inner-city youth succeed in school and pursue higher education. Project GRAD serves 3,400 students from pre-K through high school in the six schools of the Pearl-Cohn High School feeder pattern. Components include a scholarship program, teacher professional development, and coordination of health and human services for students and families. More than 50 Vanderbilt students serve as tutors and mentors, and this fall several will serve as investigators and writers for the Web site. Faculty have taught English, mathematics and science in the GRAD Summer Scholars Institute, a required four-week program hosted by Vanderbilt and designed to introduce students to learning on a college campus. The site is designed to link constituents to one another, and to build awareness of creative opportunities to support the successful development of young Nashvillians. The Student Section of the Web site was designed by Pearl-Cohn High School students.