Awards issued prior to january 20, 2025, were funded under previous administrations and may not reflect the priorities and policies of the current administration.** fifty-four scholars will be added…

Awards issued prior to january 20, 2025, were funded under previous administrations and may not reflect the priorities and policies of the current administration.** fifty-four scholars will be added to the scholarship program based on our current budget. To be more competitive with other institutions in the region and to attract the caliber of students desired to meet the goals of the 1890 scholarships, the 1890 scholarships committee deemed IT necessary to increase scholarship amounts, reduce the number of scholarship recipients, start recruiting early, and being more intentional about marketing the 1890 scholarships. In the beginning of fall 2021, the 1890 scholarships program offered new scholarships in the amounts of$20,000.00 annuallyto top recruits who have a minimum 3.2 GPA, 980 SAT or equivalent 21 act score(later reduced to 19). Other scholarships will be offered to students with a GPA of 2.8 or higher with no act score in the following categories $10, 965.20, $8,000.00, $6,000.00, and $4,000.00. First year scholars were awarded an increase in the new categories based on their previous criteria. The total award over the remaining of semesters (class of 2024 & 2025) will be valued at a minimum of $16,000 to a maximum of $80,000 per scholar. The scholarship will be posted to the student's account by uapb office of financial aid. Those students with partial 1890 scholarships is expected to complement with other financial sources such as pell grants, federally-backed student loans, foundational scholarships, churches, and other similar financial resources. In-state students also may be eligible for arkansas lottery scholarships and arkansas game and fish commission (agfc) conservation scholarships. As for systems and mechanisms to collect program data, awards are tracked with a simple spreadsheet that contains each award recipient (i.e., scholar) on a single row, with columns representing different benchmarks achieved (e.g., credits completed through a certain year, cumulative GPA attained by that year, list of courses not passed, etc.). Should any scholars lose their scholarship for any reason funds committed to that scholar will be reconstituted into another award for a scholar in the next cohort.strategies for evaluating program successannual retention and graduation rates of scholars will be tracked and compared to uapb averages, and when possible, regionaland national averages (e.g., food and agricultural education and information system [faeis]). Within nifa, IT should bepossible to compare retention and graduation rates of these scholarship programs across the different 1890 institutions.strategies for incorporating feedback into the programscholars will provide comments about their experience each year while in school, which will be used to make improvements in afeedback fashion. However, given the relatively brief duration of this grant, longer-term feedback loops will probably not bepossible. These types of feedback loops take many years and much data to be developed, by which time this grant will haveended.defined approach for longitudinal tracking of scholars post-graduationas for the number of scholars that gain employment relevant to their degrees following graduation, these can be compiled asscholars graduate and compared to other uapb majors, provided those data are available. Special emphasis will be placed onthe numbers and percentage of B.S. Graduates that work in the field immediately post-graduation and 10 years later. Thesefigures will provide some indication of the overall effectiveness of the scholars program as well as retention of graduates in thefield. Graduate follow-up will be overseen by the program coordinator mentioned above.