Building Individual Capacity for Success (BICS)

Building Individual Capacity for Success (BICS) is one of the newest initiatives of the Truman Pierce Institute. BICS provides services to enhance student engagement and successful high school completion while focusing on the strengths and interests of the students involved. BICS is funded by the AT&T Foundation's ASPIRE program. Five high schools were selected for this pilot program representing the following school systems: Bullock, Hale, Lee, and Tallapoosa Counties and the Opelika City School District. Participants are selected in the spring of his/her eighth grade year as they begin to transition to the ninth grade. Each year, a new cohort of 10 rising ninth graders from each district will be added to the program. By the completion of the BICS program, approximately 200 students will be involved. BICS will offer opportunities to learn and apply lessons in leadership development, service learning, action research, global awareness, and mentoring. BICS is designed to enable program participants to develop the appropriate skills and dispositions for success in high school and beyond.

Last Updated: Feb 12, 2011