Closing the Gap: Developing a Transportation Curriculum for the Oregon Young Scholars Program

This project summary report describes the execution of the Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC) Project #97 (Closing the Gap: Developing a Transportation Curriculum for the Oregon Young Scholars Program). With OTREC’s support, the University of Oregon’s summer enrichment program for youth was able in 2008 to focus on many facets of transportation, including workforce opportunities. Young Scholars are chosen from the 8th-grade classes of several schools in Portland and Eugene-Springfield that serve students who are most underserved in higher education. The Oregon Young Scholars Program (OYSP) focuses on providing this opportunity to students of color, students from homes with limited incomes, and students who are the first in their families to be college bound. The program began in 2005 with rising freshman. Because scholars return in subsequent summers, 2008 was the first year that students from all four grades (9th-12th) participated together, with more than 40 students in all.

• Record URL:
  http://ppms.trec.pdx.edu/media/project_files/OTREC-ED-13-02%20Final.pdf
• Summary URL:
  http://nitc.trec.pdx.edu/research/project/97
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium

  P.O. Box 751
  Portland, OR  United States  97207

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Gary, Carla
• Publication Date: 2013-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Project Summary Report
• Features: Appendices; Tables;
• Pagination: 16p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Curricula; Education; High school students; Transportation careers
• Identifier Terms: Oregon Young Scholars Program
• Geographic Terms: Oregon
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01643855
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: OTREC-ED-13-02
• Files: UTC, TRIS, RITA, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 15 2017 7:52AM