To get the first semester started at a college or university, it is only necessary that one academic department agrees to offer the course; that one member of the full-time college or university faculty agrees to supervise the undergraduates; and that at least 10 undergraduates enroll in the course. (There are no prerequisites for this course, although, as a general matter, the course would not be open to first-semester freshmen.)

During the first semester, the 10 undergraduates would work in one elementary school, which would be selected by the college. During the remaining nine semesters of the grant, it is expected that 15 undergraduates would enroll in the course each semester, for a total enrollment of 145 undergraduates over the five-year/10-semester grant period.

From the second-through-tenth semesters, the tutors should be more or less evenly divided between two elementary schools.

The college may not place tutors in more than two elementary schools in any given semester. Moreover, for purposes of evaluating the advances of the children in reading and math, the colleges are encouraged to send the undergraduates to work in the same elementary schools each semester of the five-year grant, although this decision is the college's to make.

During the five-year grant period, the undergraduates from one program will produce a total of 7,250 hours of tutoring; that is, 145 undergraduates per program x 50 hours of tutoring produced by each undergraduate.

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