9.02 Student Support Services Program

Students accepted for enrollment at Phillips Community College are eligible to participate in the Student Support Services program if they are low income and/or first generation college students. Services provided include counseling, tutoring, and educational field trips. The term low income means an individual from a family whose taxable income for the preceding year did not exceed 150 percent of an amount equal to the poverty level determined by using criteria of poverty established by the Bureau of the Census. The term first generation college student means a student neither of whose parents completed a baccalaureate degree or, in the case of any student who regularly resided with and received support from only one parent, a student whose only such parent did not complete a baccalaureate degree.