Project Stay features on this week's Newsmakers program

(From KGCS)

Thirty-three percent of Missouri Southern State University students are first generation college students. Eleven percent of MSSU students are low-income which is defined as family income below 150% of the federal poverty level. And five percent of MSSU students have a documented disability with Disability Services.

Any one of these factors can put a student at risk for not succeeding in college. And that is why Project Stay was created. How this program works to help students is the focus of this week’s Newsmakers.

Project Stay Academic Advisor and Career Coordinator Emily Brower and Project Stay Tutoring Coordinator Jared Carper share details of workshops to help students with typical challenges facing students in higher education. In a video package, we follow two students doing volunteer work with the program who explain how Project Stay helped them with scheduling, supplies and other supports. Another student joins us on set to tell how the program has supported him.

Newsmakers is airing nightly at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. the week of March 3 on KGCS-TV and will air at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, March 9 on KOAM-TV. It is also posted on the station’s YouTube channel: KGCS - Missouri Southern State University.

KGCS programming can be seen on channel 21 and is also available on regional cable television systems such as Sparklight, Mediacom and Suddenlink Communications. The station operates as a service of the Department of Communications at Missouri Southern State University.