TRIO Programs
This TRIO program prepares low-income/first-generation students in grades 6-12 for college admission OR vocational training certification.
What is Talent Search?
The TRIO programs began as part of this president's War on Poverty.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This TRIO program provides a unique service to veterans returning to college.
What is Veteran's Upward Bound?
This TRIO program helps low-income/first-generation UNDERGRADUATE students, including those who are disabled, to successfully begin and stay in college.
What is Student Support Services?
This Act established the first TRIO program.
What is the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964?
As mandated by Congress, _________ of the TRIO students served must come from families with low-incomes (following income guidelines by USED) and where neither parent (with whom they live) graduated from college.
What is two-thirds?
This TRIO program prepares low-income/first-generation college students in grades 9-12 for college admission and includes a college campus-based six week summer program.
What is Upward Bound and Upward Bound Math & Science?
This was the first TRIO program ever established.
What is Upward Bound?
This TRIO program assists students in a rigorous math & science curriculum in high school to encourage and enable them to major in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines in college.
What is Upward Bound Math & Science?
This TRIO program targets displaced or under-employed workers from low-income families and helps prepare them for postsecondary education.
What are Educational Opportunity Centers?
This government agency funds all TRIO programs.
What is the United States Department of Education?
What does AAI and CEOP stand for?
Achievement & Assessment Institute and Center for Educational Opportunity Programs
This program is designed to encourage low-income students and minority undergraduates to consider careers in college teaching as well as prepare for doctoral study.
What is The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program?
By the late 1960's, the term "TRIO" was coined to describe these federal programs.
What are Upward Bound, Talent Search and Student Support Services?
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs. President Clinton. It is not a TRIO Program