URI grant helps students navigate college with 'Roadmap' website

Personalized digital maps can suggest useful paths, ideas for internships, undergraduate research topics, etc

[E]arlier this month, the University of Rhode Island received a $643,000 grant... [from] the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, [to] help fund an "Academic Roadmap" for both URI and the Community College of Rhode Island.

The roadmap will be digital and is geared toward helping students and their families to acquaint themselves with the steps needed to succeed in college...

...Each path will be personalized for each student, their major and their career path...

...The roadmap is not just a URI program, but is also connected with CCRI. The program will assist CCRI students in their academic pursuits. Grossman-Garber also hopes that it will "help students make that transfer from CCRI to URI ... so they can clearly see the path to URI."

Full Story: Grant helps students navigate through college life with 'Roadmap' program Source: The Good 5c Cigar, November 2nd, 2007