Students: High School Transition: Upward Bound

Upward Bound

The IUPUI Upward Bound program’s mission is to provide low-income, potential first-generation college students quality instruction and academic support that will ensure students’ successful completion of a Bachelor’s degree.

IUPUI Upward Bound’s vision is to provide training and education to under-prepared and first-generation students so that 100 percent of these students that begin post-secondary education will graduate. Upward Bound will incorporate new professional and peer-based mentoring components intended to increase student interest and strengthen self-confidence, assertiveness, and persistence. Upward Bound will also have new strategies to increase student-to-student and parent-to-student experiences.  Program components include: Academic Enrichment, Academic Tutoring, Saturday Seminars, Summer Component, Math/Science Summer Component, Bridge Component, Work-study Component, and Mentoring Component.