Instructions: In this task, you are given text for US Congressional and California state bills, your task is to generate a summary for this bill.
Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''College Student Success Act''.

SEC. 2. STUDENT SUCCESS GRANTS.

Part A of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
1057 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following:

''Subpart 9--Student Success Grants

''SEC. 420K. STUDENT SUCCESS GRANTS.

''(a) Authorization of Pilot Program.--The Secretary is authorized
to award grants on a competitive basis, subject to the availability of
appropriations, to eligible institutions for the purposes of helping
low-income students succeed in persisting in and completing
postsecondary education and training programs.
''(b) Definitions.--
''(1) Eligible institution.--In this section, the term
'eligible institution' means an institution of higher education
(as defined in section 101(a)) in which, during the three-year
period preceding the year in which the institution is applying
for a grant under this section, an average of not less than 50
percent of the institution's entering first-year students are
enrolled in developmental courses to bring reading, writing, or
mathematics skills up to college-level.
''(2) Eligible student.--In this section, the term
'eligible student' means a student who--
''(A) is eligible to receive assistance under
section 401;
''(B) is a first-year student at the time of
entering the pilot; and
''(C) is selected by an eligible institution to
participate in the pilot.
''(c) Application.--An eligible institution seeking a grant under
this section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time,
in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may
require.
''(d) Grant Amounts.--
''(1) Institutional grants.--For a given year, each
institution selected to participate in this pilot program shall
receive an amount equal to the amount of a Student Success
Grant multiplied by the number of students the institution
selects to participate in the pilot program in such year. An
institution shall not select more than 200 students to
participate in the pilot program under this section during any
academic year.
''(2) Grants to students.--The amount of a Student Success
Grant provided to an eligible institution on behalf of an
eligible student under this section shall be $1,500 per student
for each award year.
''(e) Priority for Replication of Evidence-Based Policies and
Practices.--The Secretary shall give priority to applications submitted
by eligible institutions that propose to replicate policies and
practices that have proven effective in increasing persistence and
completion by low-income students or students in need of developmental
education.
''(f) Peer Review.--The Secretary shall convene a peer review
process to review applications for grants under this section and to
make recommendations to the Secretary regarding the selection of
grantees. Members of the peer review committee shall be a mix of
researchers and practitioners who are recognized experts on services
and policies to increase low income student success in postsecondary
education and training. No member of the committee shall be in a
position to benefit financially from the grants to eligible
institutions under subsection (d)(1).
''(g) Mandatory Uses.--An eligible institution that receives a
grant under this section shall use the grant funds to assign a Student
Success Coach to every first-year student participating in the pilot to
provide intensive career and academic advising, ongoing personal help
in navigating college services such as financial aid and registration,
and assistance in connecting to community resources that can help
students overcome family and personal challenges to success. Student
Success Coaches--
''(1) shall work with not more than 50 new students during
any academic period;
''(2) may be employees of academic departments, student
services offices, community-based organizations, or other
entities as deemed appropriate by the institution; and
''(3) shall meet with each eligible student selected for
the pilot before registration for courses.
''(h) Permissible Uses.--An eligible institution that receives a
grant under this section may use the grant funds to provide services
and program innovations for students participating in the pilot,
including the following:
''(1) College and career success courses, with tuition and
fees for the course covered by the Student Success Grant. These
courses should cover college success topics, such as how to
take notes, how to study, how to take tests, and how to budget
time, and should also include a substantial career exploration
component. Institutions are encouraged to use such courses to
help students develop a College and Career Success Plan so that
by the end of the first semester the students have a clear
sense of their career goals and what classes to take to achieve
such goals.
''(2) Work-study jobs with private employers in the
students' fields of study.
''(3) Learning communities that ensure that students
participating in the pilot are clustered together for at least
two courses beginning in the first semester after enrolling and
have other opportunities to create and maintain bonds that
allow them to provide academic and social support to each
other.
''(4) Curricular redesign, which may include such
innovations as 'blended' or accelerated remediation classes
that help Student Success Grant recipients to attain college-
level reading, writing, math skills (or a combination thereof)
more rapidly than traditional remediation formats allow, and
intensive skills refresher classes, offered prior to each
semester, to help students who have tested into remedial
coursework to reach entry level assessment scores for the
postsecondary programs they wish to enter.
''(5) Instructional support, such as learning labs,
supplemental instruction, and tutoring.
''(6) Assistance with support services, such as child care
and transportation.
''(i) Grant Period; Additional Technical Assistance.--
''(1) Grant period.--Grants made under this section shall
be for a period of not less than 60 months.
''(2) Additional technical assistance.--After 36 months,
the Secretary shall review the performance of the Student
Success Grant pilot students at each institution, and if no
significant improvements have been made by Student Success
Grant pilot students in persistence and completion at an
institution, then the Secretary shall provide additional
technical assistance to help the institution improve outcomes.
''(j) Required Non-Federal Share.--
''(1) In general.--Each institution participating in the
pilot program under this section shall provide a non-Federal
match of 25 percent of the grant. The non-Federal share under
this section may be provided in cash or in kind.
''(2) Effect on need analysis.--For the purpose of
calculating a student's need in accordance with part F of this
title, services or benefits under this section shall not be
considered an asset or income.
''(k) Technical Assistance.--The Secretary shall enter into
contracts with private entities to provide such technical assistance to
grantees under this section as the Secretary determines appropriate.
''(l) Evaluation.--
''(1) Outcome evaluations.--The Secretary shall conduct an
evaluation of program outcomes under the pilot program, and
shall disseminate to the public the findings from the
evaluation and information on best practices. The Secretary is
encouraged to partner with other providers of funds, such as
private foundations, to allow for use of an experimental or
quasi-experimental evaluation in at least one of the pilot
sites.
''(2) Institutional participation.--As a condition of
receiving grants under this section, participating institutions
shall work with the evaluator to track persistence and
completion outcomes for students in the pilot program,
specifically the proportion of these students who take and
complete developmental education courses, the proportion who
take and complete college-level coursework, and the proportion
who complete certificates and degrees. This data shall be
broken down by race, ethnicity, and age and the evaluator shall
assist institutions in analyzing this data to compare Student
Success Grant pilot participants to comparable nonparticipants,
using statistical techniques to control for differences in the
groups.
''(3) Annual reports.--Participating institutions shall
report on the data specified in paragraph (2) annually and the
Secretary shall make this data publicly available.
''(m) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be
appropriated to carry out this section $35,000,000 for the period
beginning with fiscal year 2008 and ending with fiscal year 2012, of
which not more than $5,000,000 may be used to carry out subsections (k)
and (l).''.
Output:
College Student Success Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to establish a pilot program awarding competitive, matching, Student Success grants to institutions of higher education in which, during the preceding three-year period, an average of at least 50% of entering first-year students were enrolled in developmental courses to bring their reading, writing, or mathematics skills up to college-level.

Requires the grants to be used to help Pell grant eligible students persevere in postsecondary education, beginning from their first year of study. Requires such help to include the assignment of a Student Success Coach to every student participant to provide intensive career and academic advising, ongoing personal help in navigating college services, and assistance in connecting to community resources that can help students overcome family and personal challenges to success.

Gives grant priority to schools proposing to replicate policies and practices that have proven effective in increasing persistence and completion by low-income students or students in need of developmental education.

Provides that the size of each grant shall be based on the number of a grantee's student participants; but limits each school to no more than 200 participants each academic year.

Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to grantees who, after three years, are not significantly improving their student participants' perseverance in their studies.