{"id":52594,"date":"2018-09-20T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=52594"},"modified":"2018-09-21T10:58:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T17:58:41","slug":"governor-ducey-gear-up-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/governor-ducey-gear-up-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Ducey proclaims Arizona GEAR UP Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Doug Ducey has declared the week of Sept. 23-29 as Arizona GEAR UP Week.<\/p>\n<p>The proclamation coincides with the celebration of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edpartnerships.org\/national-gear-up-week\">National GEAR UP Week\u00a02018<\/a>. This week commemorates the continuing success of Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP), a national program intended to help low-income students graduate from high school prepared to succeed in college.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/COE\/Gear-Up\/\">Arizona GEAR UP<\/a>, now in its third round of federal funding since 2000, has worked with 67 schools in 26 communities throughout the state to help more than 12,000 students and their families prepare, apply and pay for college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work of GEAR UP is a clear example of the commitment of Northern Arizona University to the success of all of Arizona\u2019s young people,\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Ramona Mellott<\/strong>, dean of the College of Education at Northern Arizona University and co-principal investigator for the program.<\/p>\n<p>GEAR UP\u2019s numbers speak to the program\u2019s success, with graduation and postsecondary enrollment rates substantially exceeding those for the state at the close-out of each grant cycle and student cohort served. In 2018, the 88 percent graduation rate for GEAR UP students is 8 percentage points beyond the most-current rate for Arizona and just 2 percentage points below Arizona\u2019s goal of 90 percent by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/governor-ducey-gear-up-week\/\">Gov. Doug Ducey has declared the week of Sept. 23-29 as Arizona GEAR UP Week. The proclamation coincides with the celebration of\u00a0National GEAR UP Week\u00a02018. This week commemorates the continuing success of Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP), a national program intended to help low-income students graduate from high school prepared&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":52599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}