The Scholarships for Disadvantaged
Students (SDS) Program provides scholarship funds to schools for
distribution to undergraduate and graduate students from
disadvantage backgrounds who are preparing for the health
professions.
In FY 2012, the SDS program
changed from a 1 year formula grant to a 4 year project competitive
grant which lowers the number of eligible grantees. In the last
clearance package we estimated 500 applications and 500 reports to
be submitted. The old SDS formula program allowed all eligible
applicants to receive funds and all eligible applicants were
required to submit an annual performance report. The numbers
decreased from 500 applications to 400 applications since there
were 400 applicants in FY 2012, but only 99 applicants were funded.
Therefore, only 99 awardees will be required to submit a SDS
performance report. In addition, the SDS performance report will be
required twice a year instead of annually.
$104,600
No
No
Yes
No
No
Uncollected
Jodi Duckhorn 301
443-1984
No
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