Although the $50,000 grants from the National Education Project are used mainly to cover college faculty costs during the five-year grant period, the college, if it wishes to do so, may pay small stipends to selected undergraduates, known as "Student Coordinators," to assist in coordinating the day-to-day work of the undergraduates tutoring in the elementary schools.

(A stipend of $250 per Student Coordinator per semester may be appropriate, but the actual dollar amount is determined by each college.)

Duties of the Student Coordinators might include:

1. Coordinating transportation of the undergraduates to the elementary school;
   
   
2. Checking on a regular basis the Attendance Book that is kept in the central office at the elementary school; and
   
   
3. Similar administrative support responsibilities as determined by the college faculty member responsible for the course.

Student Coordinators are selected each semester by the college faculty member, but each Student Coordinator must also be enrolled in the course and working at the elementary school as a tutor, or they must have taken the course in a previous semester.

A college may have up to two Student Coordinators per semester (at a ratio of one Student Coordinator per elementary school), but not more. Over the course of the five-year/10-semester grant, a college therefore may have a maximum of 19 Student Coordinators (that is, one Student Coordinator the first semester of the grant, and two Student Coordinators for each of the following nine semesters of the grant).

An undergraduate may serve more than one semester as a Student Coordinator if asked to do so by the college faculty member.

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