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Leveraging TRIO for Career Success: A Pathway to Opportunity 

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Students who complete an internship while in college are 48.2% more likely to attain college-level employment than those who do not. ” For Guy Bastien, who returned to college as an older adult and father, TCDP brought with it a newfound world of opportunities through TRIO.

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From Humble Beginnings to Leading Higher Education Advocacy: My Journey

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When people ask me about my work, they often wonder if my motivation stems from being a low-income, first-generation college student myself. Although it was possible to obtain a promising middle-class lifestyle without a college degree, my grandparents did not want my mother to have to “work with [her] hands” as they did.

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Breaking Barriers in Finance: The Impact of TRIO on Student Support Services Alumna Ashley Thomas

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A graduate of the  University of South Carolina , she credits her understanding of the unique challenges confronting first-generation, low-income students to her participation in the Opportunity Scholars Program (OSP), a subset of TRIO Student Support Services , during college. 

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Isabel Wilkerson’s Powerful Address on America’s Caste System Opens the 2023 COE Annual Conference

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It is about freedom and how far people are willing to go to achieve it. You could go to jail if you played checkers with someone of a different race,” she said. If you think of our country as an old house, whatever you are ignoring will never go away. Migration isn’t about migration,” Wilkerson explained. “It

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Unleashing the Power of empower™ at Southeastern Louisiana University

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No more massaging data or extensive corrections – empower allows us to input accurate data in one go. empower isn’t just a software – it’s an extension of the TRIO community. Representative Steven Horsford’s Inspirational Journey Blog From TRIO to the Halls of Congress: U.S.

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Empowering Excellence: A TRIO Program’s Journey to Streamlined Success with empower™ 

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Kent : All right, from the get-go, when we introduced the TRIO program to the empower platform, we didn’t have a designated system. So, I proactively approached Dr. Darica Simon-Baptiste, suggesting we go with empower. During a first-generation-to-college celebration, my colleague shared her positive experiences with empower.

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Building Strong College-to-Career Pathways for TRIO Students: Insights from Industry Experts

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Building Strong College-to-Career Pathways for TRIO Students: Insights from Industry Experts September 13, 2023 — by Maura Casey It isn’t enough for TRIO students to have a successful experience in college. The research is really an eye-opener and really draws attention to the need for better college-to-career pipelines.