Bacon to discuss SEED tuition grants on TV tonight

J. Richard Bacon

1:56 p.m., Sept. 15, 2005--J. Richard Bacon, coordinator of UD’s Southern Delaware Academic Programs, will talk about Delaware’s new SEED program, a new state-supported tuition grant opportunity for high school graduates, live on WHYY-TV’s Delaware Tonight news broadcast at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 15.

Bacon will appear in the weekly “All About Your Money” segment.

An acronym for Student Excellence Equals Degree, the SEED program will provide tuition for qualified full-time students working toward associate degrees at Delaware Technical and Community College (DTTC) and UD’s Associate in Arts (AA) program regardless of their family’s financial status. The new state tuition program will begin in the fall of 2006.

Based in Georgetown, Bacon serves as faculty coordinator of the Associate in Arts (AA) Program and the UD Academic Center in Georgetown, where he supervises all activities, including scheduling of courses, student advisement, recruitment of students and interaction with high school admissions counselors and administrators.

Previously, Bacon served as director of the Agriculture and Technology Education Program in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, as a faculty member of the Department of Food and Resource Economics and faculty adviser of the UD chapter of the National FFA, formerly the Future Farmers of America. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Tennessee and joined the UD faculty in 1985. He currently is working on his doctorate in educational leadership at the University.

Delaware Tonight is a local news and public affairs program produced by WHYY-TV from the WHYY Delaware Broadcast Center in Wilmington. The program provides the day's news from Delaware and the region, along with in-depth analysis every evening, Monday-Friday.

In addition to the live broadcast, the program is available on the web for a week at [www.whyy.org/tv12/deltonight.html].

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