UW News
Scott Winter
May 8, 2013
New ‘academic redshirt’ program to support undergraduate STEM education
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The University of Washington in collaboration with Washington State University is developing an “academic redshirt” program that will bring dozens of low-income, Washington state high school graduates to the two universities to study engineering in a five-year bachelor’s program.