• Student must be eligible to receive a Pell grant.
• Student must be progressing satisfactorily in accordance with the institution’s standards of satisfactory progress. 

• Student must be an active participant in the Open Door Project/SSS TRIO program (refer to your ODP contract).
• Student must have participated in the Open Door Project/SSS TRIO program for at least two full semesters prior to the semester that the monies are awarded.  All monies will be awarded in the spring 2009 semester.

Make sure you contact Kristen Carnes, 822-1269, to find out more about how you can get involved.  Participation in these kinds of activities is what makes the Open Door Project work for all of you.  

The Open Door Project is now lending laptop computers. In order to participate in the loan program you must be an active participant in accordance with the Open Door Project Participation Contract and have been active in the program one full academic semester prior to the borrowing of the laptop computer. Program participants will be allowed to borrow the laptop for a period of two days per checkout.

The purpose of the laptop loan program is to provide students with use of a computer in their home when emergency situations prevent them from accessing the open computer lab on campus. The laptops cannot be used for research purposes as the modems have been deactivated, thus preventing access to the internet. The computers can be used to type papers and do other assignments requiring database, spreadsheets, Power Point presentations, and word processing software.

Contact the office at 822-1218 for more information.