Federal TRiO Programs (Talent Search, Upward Bound, Upward Bound Math/Science, Veterans’ Upward Bound, Student Support Services, Educational Opportunity Centers, and the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program) help students to overcome class, social, academic, and cultural barriers to higher education.
Educational Opportunity
Centers
Educational Opportunity Centers located throughout the country primarily serve displaced or underemployed workers from families. These Centers help individuals to choose a college and a suitable financial aid program. There are 165 Educational Opportunity Centers in America serving more than 225,000 individuals.
Ronald E. McNair
Postbaccalaureate Achievement
The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement program is designed to encourage low-income students and minority undergraduates to consider careers in college teaching as well as prepare for doctoral study.
Student Support
Services
Student Support Services projects work to enable low-income students to stay in college until they earn their baccalaureate degrees. Participants, who include disabled college students, receive tutoring, counseling and remedial instruction. More than 203,000 students are now being served by 1,071 Student Support Service programs at colleges and universities nationwide.
Talent
Search
Talent Search projects serve young people in grades six through twelve. In addition to counseling, participants receive information about college admissions requirements, scholarships and various student financial aid programs.
Student Highlight
Ronald E. McNair Scholar, Lindsay Griffiths
Lindsay Griffiths is a graduating senior in the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, completing her bachelors in English Literature and Spanish Translation. She is also a Ronald E. McNair Scholar and a member of the Sigma Delta Pi National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society. As an undergraduate student, she has conducted two research projects, one on the speculative novel Black No More and the other on the slave narratives of Henry Brown and of Juan Francisco Manzano. She is a published translator, having rendered the book Burp. Apuntes Gastronómicos by Mercedes Cebrián from Spanish into English (Burp: Gastronomical Writings), with the support of Will Parucki and under the guidance of Professor Adrian Izquierdo from Hunter College. She was accepted into 6 graduate schools, and has committed to attending Princeton University to pursue a PhD in English Literature. She was also recently awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to take place for a year in Colombia.
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