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 Higher Education Act of 1965?
As mandated by Congress, _________ of the TRiO students served must come from families with incomes under $37,650, where neither parent 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?
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?
These eight states make up the Southeastern Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (SAEOPP).
What are: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee.
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?
This nonprofit organization was established in 1981 and is dedicated to furthering the expansion of college opportunities for low-income, first-generation students, and students with disabilities in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., the Pacific Islands, and Puerto Rico.
What is The Council for Opportunity in Education (COE)?