“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 ...

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 ...

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We hear a lot these days the question, “Is a college education still worth it?” I was fortunate growing up. Though our family didn’t have a lot of money, my brother and I never wanted for anything – ...

Cameron Woodard, the director of TRIO Programs at the university, has a special touch for helping, encouraging and cheering on students to reach their full potential. Through TRIO, Cameron has been ...

Students at Arlington Heights High School’s 2022 graduation ceremony wear mortarboards bearing the logos of the colleges they plan to attend. Provided Over the past six decades, the federal TRIO ...

As a high schooler, I was busy. I was a member of 4-H, swam competitively and was on my school’s tennis team. I served on my town’s youth commission, all while working and being a normal high schooler ...

When Scott Robertson was a senior at Wayne High School in 2001, job opportunities in the area were starting to take a downward turn, and as a low-income student whose parents didn’t graduate from ...

I was in Washington D.C last week and visited with U.S. Representative Ron Kind’s educational staff. During our conversation, I mentioned a story of a young women who grew up in rural Wisconsin.