“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 ...

Before Phil Redden became a math tutor at WVU Tech, he was one of Upward Bound’s first students. Redden was among the alumni recognized June 29 as WVU Tech marked 60 years of TRIO Upward ...

For 60 years, TRIO has helped millions of people along the path to a degree, but the administration says it is no longer needed. Update: As of April 2026, funding for many TRIO programs remains in ...

With just days remaining before a Sept. 30 deadline, congressionally appropriated TRIO program funding is slowly trickling out to Georgia higher education institutions, but more than $2 million ...

Over the past six decades, the federal TRIO program has helped millions of low-income students earn college degrees. But with Trump administration officials holding up funding meant to fund college ...

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 ...

Two federally funded college access programs helped make college a reality for Gisel Suarez Bonilla. As a first-generation college student, the programs taught her about applying for scholarships, ...