TRIO Digest, Week 34 (Aug 25 - Sep 1, 2025)
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Trump Cancels Dozens of Education Grants—With More Terminations on the Horizon
More than $1 billion in already-awarded grant funding has yet to flow as expected.
Mark Lieberman
TRIO Grants Delayed—Immediate Action Needed
Over 2,000 TRIO grant award notifications (Upward Bound, Veterans Upward Bound, Talent Search, and Educational Opportunity Centers) have not been released by the U.S. Department of Education. This impacts nearly 650,000 students.
Instead of issuing grant awards by September 1, 2025, the Department granted a blanket “no-cost extension” through September 30, 2025. This is not a solution—especially for programs set to end August 31. Students and programs will face serious disruptions.
We need your help today:
- Contact your Senators and Representatives. Urge them to press the Department of Education to release TRIO grants immediately. Share how the delay will harm your students, programs, and communities.
- Ask them to sign onto congressional letters.
- House: led by Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI)
- Senate: led by Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
These letters close Wednesday, September 3, 2025, COB. Your action is critical to ensuring TRIO programs start on time and students aren’t left behind.
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Van Hollen, Alsobrooks Announce Over $1.2 Million to Support Students at Eastern Shore Colleges | U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland
Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks (both D-Md.) announced $1,214,311 in federal funding for higher education institutions on…
TRIO Spotlight
Columbia State Receives Grant Renewal to Fund TRIO Student Support Services
Columbia State Community College recently received grant funding to continue supporting its TRIO Student Support Services through the U.S. Department of Education, with funding beginning Sept. 1
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GCSC secures 5-year renewal of TRIO Student Support Services grant project
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WMBB) – Gulf Coast State College announced Friday that it has been awarded a five-year renewal of its TRIO Student Support Services grant project. According to a news relea…
Stephanie Pitts
Central College Granted Student Support Services Funding
Central College was awarded a TRIO Student Support Services grant of $352,531 annually, totaling $1,762,655 over the five-year grant period. This grant funds programming to increase retention and graduation rates among low-income, first-generation college students and students
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Eastern Michigan University secures $1.3 million in TRIO Student Support Services funding to support first-generation, low-income and students with disabilities through 2030
UNM-Gallup receives federal grant to continue TRIO SSS
Gallup, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Education has awarded The University of New Mexico-Gallup a federal TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) grant totaling more than $1.4 million to improve college retention and graduation rates among low-income,…
Richard Reyes
UW’s Student Success Services TRIO Program Receives Five-Year Renewal Grant
The Student Success Services (SSS) program, housed in the University of Wyoming’s Department of Student Educational Opportunity, has been awarded a five-year TRIO grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant, in the amount of a little more than $2.3 million, was awarded from among 1,702 proposals submitted in a nationwide, discretionary grant competition.
Central Carolina Technical College awarded $1.4M federal grant to continue Student Support Services program - The Sumter Item
Central Carolina Technical College has received a federal grant in excess of $1 million to continue its TRIO Student Support Services program from 2025 to 2030. The program will serve 165 students …
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Miami’s TRIO Student Services receives $1.36 million five-year grant renewal
TRIO program supports up to 140 students at Miami University per year to help them achieve their degree goals
Rod Nimtz, External Relations and Communications
TRIO grant through 2030 to support MC students - Knox TN Today
Five years after receiving the initial funding that helped create it, Maryville College’s TRIO Student Support Service program has again received a $1.3 million, five-year grant that will allow it to continue to help students succeed and graduate. Project Director Dr. Sylvia Turner said the new grant for $1,361,820, will provide $272,364 per year through 2030. It was […]
Maryville College
WKU Student Support Services – Disability Grant Renewed for Five Years
Western Kentucky University proudly announces that the U.S. Department of Education has renewed funding for the Student Support Services – Disability (SSS-D) Program through the federal TRIO initiative for another five years.
TRIO Student Support Services funded for next five years at $3.2 million
SUNY Plattsburgh’s TRIO Student Support Services has been awarded a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Under the competitive federal grant, TRIO SSS will receive $637,000 in annual funding through August 2030, according to Ashley Durocher, interim director. The program provides academic, personal, career and financial assistance to…
Gerianne Downs, The Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y.
TCL receives continued federal funding worth more than $1.7 million for student success program
Student Success
The Council for Opportunity in Education to Honor Barry C. Cosgrove with the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award - Council for Opportunity in Education
As Congress begins to review the Trump Administration’s FY2026 budget proposal, more than 10,000 educators, doctors, lawyers, and public servants urge lawmakers to reject the proposed elimination of the Federal TRIO Programs.
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Dori Leadbetter: Leading adult learners like herself to new horizons - UMaine News - University of Maine
For much of her life, Dori Leadbetter didn’t think of herself as “college material.” She dropped out of high school, had two kids by age 20 and earned her GED during her second pregnancy. By age 39, as a recent divorcee with three children, Leadbetter discovered the Maine Educational Opportunity…
What We're Reading
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