CAMP will provide financial and academic assistance to first-year students who meet the following qualifications:
Enroll as a full-time student (12 credit hours)
One of the following:
Be a migrant/seasonal farmworker.
Be immediate family of a migrant/seasonal farm-worker.
Any student who or whose parents have spent a minimum of 75 days during the past 24 months as a migrant or seasonal farm-worker.
Any student who has participated or is currently participating in the Migrant Education Program, the National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP), Employment and Training Administration or other services and activities established under Section 167 of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA).
U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident (green card holder).
Earned college credit hours cannot exceed 23 for current UNG or transferred students. College credits earned in high school do not count towards this.
Must apply for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
Demonstrate one or more of the following needs:
Financial Need – Pell eligibility; low-income.
Academic Need – Low GPA and/or low ACT/SAT scores; limited college prep courses.
Personal Need – First generation college student; minor; single parent household; housing and/or geographic boundaries.
A migrant farmworker is a seasonal farmworker whose employment requires travel that precluded the farmworker from returning to his or her permanent place of residence within the same day.
A person whose primary employment was in farm work on a temporary or seasonal basis, (that is not a constant year-round activity) for a period of at least 75 days within the past 24 months.
A person who is considered an “immediate family member” is a spouse, parent, step-parent, adoptive parent, foster parent or anyone with guardianship, claims the participant as a dependent on the Federal Income tax return or resides in the same household as the participant and supports that individual financially and is relative of the participant.