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 ...

College didn’t always seem attainable for Michaela Loggins, a first-generation student at Portland State University. Now, she’s pursuing a master’s degree. Loggins went to Tualatin High School before ...

On Oct. 10, personnel who oversee the distribution of TRIO grants within the U.S. Department of Education were part of widespread layoffs, according to USA TODAY. The federal TRIO programs began with ...

May 21, 2026 - Jair Solis became his family’s first-ever college graduate, a milestone that had felt out of reach because of the long-lasting fallout from his dad’s detention. President Donald Trump’s ...

TRIO programs are a group of services aimed at helping low-income, disabled and first-generation students make it through higher education. COCC, with its main campus in Bend, is hosting the second ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. At one time, Bailee Hernandez didn’t even know how to enroll in college. No one in her family ...

Even as President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating the federal TRIO programs that since the 1960s have aimed to help disadvantaged students attain some form of higher education, Kirkwood ...

One Republican senator said progams Trump put on the chopping block “have been a game-changer in helping low-income and first-generation students not only access higher education but also succeed once ...

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 ...

R.I.S.E graduates throw their caps in the air at the R.I.S.E graduation on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, at the Macon City Auditorium in Macon, Georgia. Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney Anita ...