Guide to GEAR UP in Texas

GEAR UP Waco

Baylor University

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Name of Project:

GEAR UP Waco

Website:

http://www.baylor.edu/thinkcollege/

Director's Name:

Jewel Lockridge

Director's Contact Number:

254-710-4975

Director's Email:

jewel_lockridge@baylor.edu

Years of Grant:

2006-2012

Type of Grant:

Cohort

Districts/Demographics:

Waco ISD

Brief Description of Program:

The GEAR UP Waco partnership has made considerable strides to become a community catalyst for educational change and a leader in college access and awareness both locally and nationally. The partnership’s primary goal is to significantly increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education.

Program Components:

  • Instructional learning field trips
  • Mathematics initiative
  • Physics Circus 
  • Project Democracy debate program

Parent Programs:

LEAF parental literacy program

Partners:

  • Texas State Technical College-Waco
  • Making Connections with Youth Count
  • City of Waco Academy for Educational Development
  • Waco Independent School District