MKN & EOA Trivia
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College Access Programs
100

A mid-west association of TRIO and college access and success professionals.  The association includes ten states.

What is Educational Opportunity Association?

100

Due at the end of your budget year and demonstrates the program's progress toward objectives.

What is the APR or annual performance report?

100

What is the name of the TRIO Program that serves adult learners who want to go back to college or start college?

What is EOC - Educational Opportunity Center?

100

The number of objectives in the KU TRIO Talent Search

What is 5?

Persistence; Graduation; RC; Enrollment; Attainment

200

The MKN chapter is unique from other state chapters and is the only one like it in the country

What is the only three-state chapter?

200
At KU, we are under this center which part of the Achievement and Assessment Institute (AAI)

What is the Center for Educational Opportunity Programs (CEOP)?

200

The TRIO programs began as part of this President's administration.  

Who is President Lyndon B. Johnson?

200

The GEAR UP program is designed to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in post-secondary education. The acronym stands for these words.   

What is Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs?

300

This MKN event is designed for pre-college students and usually held in June of each year.

What is the MKN Student Leadership Conference?

300

This is the name of the KU TRIO Talent Search's Scholarship Program. 

What is a YES Scholar?

300

These are the three pre-college access TRIO programs that serve youth.

What is UB, TS, and UBMS? 

300

This is the year that KU TRIO Talent Search Program was started.

What is 1988?

400

This person is an outstanding former TRIO participant who has received recognition within their profession and has made significant civic, community, or professional contributions.

Who is a TRIO Achiever?

400
The start and end of a grant year.

What is Sept 1 to August 31st?

400

The name TRIO was coined after these three programs were established.

What was Upward Bound, Talent Search, and Student Support Services?

400
These are the schools in KCKPS that are served by KU TRIO Talent Search

What are Argentine, Arrowhead, Carl Bruce, Central, Eisenhower, Gloria Willis, and Rosedale MS?  What are FL Schlagle, JC Harmon, Sumner, Washington and Wyandotte HS?

500

The states represented by the Educational Opportunity Association.

What is Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Michigan?

500
According to the Congressional resolution, this day is meant to focus the nation's attention on the needs of disadvantaged young people and adults aspiring to improve their lives, to the necessary investment if they are to become contributing citizens of the country, and to the talent which will be wasted if that investment is not made.

What is TRIO Day?

500

The TRIO program that works with assisting veterans to pursue and be successful in a postsecondary institution.

What is Veterans Upward Bound?

500

GEAR UP offers these types of grants.

What is state and partnership grants?

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