Local students fear for the future as President Trump's budget proposal threatens the Federal TRIO Program

Local students fear for the future as President Trump's budget proposal threatens the Federal TRIO Program

Lafayette- Olivia Toutcheque always dreamed of going to college. As a first-generation student, that dream once felt distantuntil she joined the TRIO Upward Bound program.I always had a dream to go to college, Toutcheque said. Ive been here since my freshman year, sophomore year, and now my junior yearits almost three years now. My father, mother, and sister do not have college degrees. I would be the first."The Upward Bound program, part of the…

Colorado students, education leaders try to help TRIO college-access program avoid Trump cuts - Open Campus

At one time, Bailee Hernandez didn’t even know how to enroll in college. No one in her family had attended. She did know that college was expensive. All that meant she used to think she would go straight from high school into the workforce. But thanks to the staff at Colorado State University Pueblo’s TRIO office, Hernandez enrolled at Colorado Mesa University during the pandemic. Then she dropped out. CSU Pueblo TRIO staff once again stepped up…