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TRIO Federal Grant Programs


TRIO Federal Grant Programs at Piedmont Technical College include:

Academic Advantage
Also known as Student Support Services, this program helps people from families with incomes under $24,000 (where neither parent graduated from college) to stay in college until they earn their baccalaureate degree.  Participants, who include disabled college students, receive tutoring, counseling and remedial instruction.

Educational Talent Search
Educational Talent Search serves students in grades six through twelve.  In addition to counseling, participants receive information about college admissions requirements, scholarships, and various student financial aid programs.  This early intervention program helps people from families with incomes under $24,000 (where neither parent graduated from college) to better understand their educational opportunities and options.

Upward Bound
Upward Bound helps low-income / first-generation students prepare for higher education.  Participants receive instruction in literature, composition, mathematics, foreign language and science at Piedmont Technical College on Saturdays and during the summer.  Students also receive tutoring at their target schools and attend cultural field trips throughout the year.
 

TRIO Quick Facts
 
  1. TRIO helps disadvantaged students complete a program of postsecondary study.
     
  2. Programs are federally funded in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and the US Virgin Islands.
     
  3. Piedmont hosts 3 of the 6 federal TRIO programs -- Academic Advantage (Student Support Services), Educational Talent Search, and Upward Bound.
     
  4. Most TRIO programs serve students who are or will be first generation college students and from low income backgrounds.
     
  5. PTC TRIO students attend an annual National TRIO Day program at Claflin University in late February.
  
 

 Last Updated February 07, 2003