Ithaca College

Dr. Orlando-Marquez C. Kittrell, founding director of the Office of State Grants (OSG), will present "STEM Student Editorial: Developing a Synergistic Pipeline for Historically Underrepresented STEM College Students" at the 14th Biennial Tri-State Conference. 

The Tri-State Consortium includes educators, administrators, counselors and staff, working in the state supported educational opportunity programs in New Jersey (Educational Opportunity Fund), New York, (Educational Opportunity Programs in the State University System (EOP), Higher Education Opportunity Programs, New York State Education Department (HEOP) and Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge (SEEK) in the City University of New York), and Pennsylvania (ACT 101).

Dr. Kittrell's session will take place during the April 23-25, 2017 conference at Bally’s Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The session will particularly benefit college faculty, staff and administrators who are interested in learning how to write grant proposals to fund and academically support historically underrepresented STEM students at their respective institutions, thus increasing the student persistence, retention and graduation rates of those identified underrepresented students.

OSG provides intrusive academic support services to eligible Ithaca College students participating in the Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP), the Careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (C-STEM) program and the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP). The Ithaca College CSTEP and HEOP programs are funded in part through the Office of Postsecondary Access, Support and Success (OPASS) at the New York State Department of Education.