(a) Program authority The Secretary shall carry out a program to be known as upward bound which shall be designed to generate skills and motivation necessary for success in education beyond secondary
school.
(b) Permissible services Any upward bound project assisted under this division may provide services such as
(1) instruction in reading, writing, study skills, mathematics, and other subjects necessary for success beyond secondary
school;
(2) counseling and workshops;
(3) academic advice and assistance in secondary
school course selection;
(4) tutorial services;
(5) exposure to cultural events, academic programs, and other activities not usually available to disadvantaged youth;
(6) activities designed to acquaint youths participating in the project with the range of career options available to them;
(7) instruction designed to prepare youths participating in the project for careers in which persons from disadvantaged backgrounds are particularly underrepresented;
(8) on-campus residential programs;
(9) mentoring programs involving elementary or secondary
school teachers or counselors, faculty members at institutions of higher education, students, or any combination of such persons;
(10) work-study positions where youth participating in the project are exposed to careers requiring a postsecondary degree;
(11) special services to enable veterans to make the transition to postsecondary education; and
(12) programs and activities as described in paragraphs (1) through (11) which are specially designed for students of limited English proficiency.
(c) Required services
Any upward bound project assisted under this division which has received funding for two or more years shall include, as part of the core curriculum in the next and succeeding years, instruction in mathematics through precalculus, laboratory science, foreign language, composition, and literature.
(d) Requirements for approval of applications In approving applications for upward bound projects under this division for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall
(1) require an assurance that not less than two-thirds of the youths participating in the project proposed to be carried out under any application be low-income individuals who are first generation college students;
(2) require an assurance that the remaining youths participating in the project proposed to be carried out under any application be either low-income individuals or first generation college students;
(3) require that there be a determination by the institution, with respect to each participant in such project that the participant has a need for academic support in order to pursue successfully a program of education beyond secondary
school; and
(4) require that such participants be persons who have completed 8 years of elementary education and are at least 13 years of age but not more than 19 years of age, unless the imposition of any such limitation would defeat the purposes of this section.
(e) Maximum stipends
Youths participating in a project proposed to be carried out under any application may be paid stipends not in excess of $60 per month during June, July, and August, except that youth participating in a work-study position under subsection (b)(10) of this section may be paid a stipend of $300 per month during June, July, and August. Youths participating in a project proposed to be carried out under any application may be paid stipends not in excess of $40 per month during the remaining period of the year.
(f) Additional funds
(1) Authorization and appropriation
There are authorized to be appropriated, and there are appropriated to the Secretary, from funds not otherwise appropriated, $57,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2011 to carry out paragraph (2), except that any amounts that remain unexpended for such purpose for each of such fiscal years may be available for technical assistance and administration costs for the Upward Bound program. The authority to award grants under this subsection shall expire at the end of fiscal year 2011.
(2) Use of funds
The amounts made available by paragraph (1) shall be available to provide assistance to all Upward Bound projects that did not receive assistance in fiscal year 2007 and that have a grant score above 70. Such assistance shall be made available in the form of 4-year grants.
