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UAB gets $49 million grant to help boost college hopes of low-income students in state's Black Belt

by Traci Bratton

October 03, 2014
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Education has been awarded a seven-year, $49 million grant -- its largest ever -- to serve as the hub of GEAR UP Alabama, a federally funded program to help increase the number of low-income students in Alabama's poverty-plagued Black Belt that are prepared to attend college.

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