“If there’s anything that changed my life, it’s TRIO.” When alumna Arya B. Nair ’25 began at FIU as a first-generation college student, she felt lost and overwhelmed. An email about the Golden Scholar ...

TRIO Programs include Student Support Services, coordinated through the Office of Supportive Services (OSS) and the McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program (McNair Scholars Program). This was ...

For 50 years, the TRIO program has helped students at Luther College navigate higher education. Not only does the federally funded program help first-generation and income-eligible students access ...

Have you ever tried a new recipe but neglected to add a key ingredient? If so, it probably didn’t turn out so well or at least not as you expected. If I were to boil down all the things that go into ...

Every summer, TRIO Programs across the country change the lives of nearly 870,000 students. I was one of those students. My life has never been the same. TRIO works. When I was 14 years old, I had the ...

The TRIO program at the University of South Dakota offers students a first-year experience that builds community and boosts persistence. The University of South Dakota’s TRIO Student Support Services ...

I reacted with disappointment and disagreement to Chester E. Finn Jr.'s assertion that the TRIO programs are part of what he labeled a “remediation industry” that has a vested interest in opposing ...

Rochester Institute of Technology received funding from the U.S. Department of Education to continue offering three federal TRIO programs for supporting underrepresented students. RIT earned ...

Federal TRIO programs provide support services to students from disadvantaged backgrounds like mine. So, when I hear policymakers refer to the TRIO suite of programs as a “relic,” I can’t help but ...