TRIO

TRIO Programs

100

This TRIO program prepares low income/first generation college students in the 6-12 grades for college admission OR vocational training certification.

What is Talent Search?

200

This TRIO program helps low income/fist generation UNDERGRADUATE students, including those who are disabled, to successfully begin and stay in college.

What is Student Support Services?

300

This TRIO program prepares low income/first genration college students in the 9-12 grades for college admission, only, and includes a college campus-based six week summer program.

What is Upward Bound?

400

This TRIO program targets displaced or underemployed workers from low-income families and helps prepare them for postsecondary education.

What are Educational Opportunity Centers?

500

This TRIO program encourages and prepares low-income and minority students for doctoral study and to pursue careers in college teaching.

What is the McNair Program?

Upward Bound

100

Upward Bound offers tutoring support for these core subjects.

What are literature, composition, mathematics, science, social science and foreign language?

200

This is the eligibility status of participants who are not first-gen or low-income. 

What is At Risk For Academic Failure?

300

This is the total number of students the Old Dominion University Upward Bound program is funded to serve.

What is 77?

400

According to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Upward Bound was created to tackle this war. 

What is the "War on Poverty"?

500

The year this program started. 

What is 1986?

SSS

100

This is the fraction of students served must be low income and have a disability.

What is 1/3?

200

The number of participants served in the ODU sss program.

What is 210?

300

The minimum amount of an SSS grant aid award.

What is $750?

400

The year this TRIO program was started.

What is 1981?

500

The number of SSS programs that exists. 

1162

McNair

100

The number of McNair Scholars programs that exist in Virginia.

What is 4? ODU, VCU, VU, and HU.

200

These states are included in the MAEOPP Region.

What are Delaware, DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, & West Virginia.

300

The acronym MAP stands for. 

What is the McNair Association of Professionals?

400

The number of students this TRIO program is funded to serve.

What is 25?

500

The year this TRIO program started.

What is 2022?

History of TRIO

100

The TRIO programs began as part of this president's War on Poverty.

Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?

200

This Act established the first trio program.

What is the Higher Education Act of 1965?

300

This was the first TRIO program ever established.

What is Upward Bound?

400

This government agency funds all TRIO programs.

What is the United States Department of Education?

500

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?