TRIO Program

Daniela Chavez - Vanesa Sierra

Alejandro Llamas
What is TRIO?
● Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 in response to War on Poverty.

● 7 PROGRAMS: Educational Opportunity Centers, Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate

Achievement Program, Upward Bound Math & Science and Veterans Upward Bound,

Including 3 Original Upward Bound, Talent Search, and Student Support Services.

● Income- Educational based -1st Gen.

● KEY SERVICES: Academic advising, educational workshops, college application and

financial aid assistance, after school tutoring, college visits and cultural field trips

● TRIO programs currently serve 790,000 underrepresented students

Activity
Contemporary Issue
● TRIO focuses on supporting students academically and educate them in college and universities but lack

support programs to maintain them in higher institutions

● TRIO fails to provide financial security and assistance to students after high school graduation
Funding
“Soft Money” Fun Fact:

Budget Presidents can request to eliminate

TRIO
80% of grant funds is for Salaries and Benefits
- Regan, ‘81, Bush Jr. ‘05, Trump ‘18
Students being served are the most affected
by funding.

- Changes in the Prosper Act

Prosper Act
● The Educational Opportunity Centers (HEA) reauthorization bill proposed

○ The PROSPER act “eliminating the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant and Public Service Loan Forgiveness”

affecting low-income students who benefited from student loans.

● ONE Loan Program

● The act would mandate the institutions to match 20% of the non-federal dollars for their TRIO programs
Interview
● Sam Blanco III- Director at UC
Davis School of Education,
(Talent Search and Upward
Bound) 30 Years
● Transitioned from
Engineering into Student
Affairs
Pre-College TRIO Programs
Talent Search Upward Bound

- Funded 500-1000 Students - 108 Students

- Numbers Driven
- Application Process for Seniors
- Big group Presentations
- Personal; 1 on 1 Communication
- Biggest Difference- Family Relationships
- Summer Program (Help raise them and
monitor educational advancement)

Trust & Belonging

Cons: Fails to support Undoc Students (in the

works with Congress)
Analisis/Discussion
- More College/University Federally Funded Programs

- $$$

- Lobby for support for the TRIO Program

References
About TRIO. Trio programs. (2021). September 27, 2021.

https://trio.dasa.ncsu.edu/about/

Council for Opportunity in Education. (n-d.) National Trio Day Action Packet. Retrieved from

https://coenet.org/files/national_trio_day_action_packet_2020.pdf

Council for Opportunity in Education. (n-d.-a) Advocacy. Retrieved from https://coenet.org/files/national_trio_day_action_packet_2020.pdf

Darville, S. April 11, 2018. PROSPER act’s Impact on TRIO programs concerns many schools. Retrieved 2021

https://www.diverseeducation.com/students/article/15102326/prosper-acts-impact-on-trio

Grieve, K. February 6, 2018. The prosper act and TRIO students. Retrieved from https://www.naspa.org/blog/the-prosper-act-and-trio-students

Hallman, C. September 6, 2014. TRIO teaches high school students the culture of college. Retrieved 2021.