{"id":37932,"date":"2015-07-21T16:04:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T23:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=37932"},"modified":"2015-07-22T08:53:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T15:53:13","slug":"nau-receives-nearly-1-5-million-for-trio-student-support-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-receives-nearly-1-5-million-for-trio-student-support-services\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU receives nearly $1.5 million for TRIO Student Support Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37944\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37944\" style=\"width: 401px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37944 \" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0828-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2015\/07\/IMG_0828-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/402\/2015\/07\/IMG_0828-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upperclassmen serve as mentors to assist first-year students in the TRIO Student Support Services program in making a successful transition to college.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Northern Arizona University has been awarded a <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/student-support-services\/\">TRIO Student Support Services<\/a> grant from the U.S. Department of Education to continue its program through August 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The grant award will be $296,273 annually, totaling about $1,481,365, and will serve 240 first-generation, low-income students or students with disabilities each year. This is in addition\u00a0to institutional support of approximately 200 more students.<\/p>\n<p>TRIO is a set of federally funded college opportunity programs that motivate and support students from disadvantaged backgrounds in their pursuit of a college degree. TRIO Student Support Services at NAU is one of nearly\u00a01,000 programs in the country and has been providing assistance and services to first-generation, low-income and students with disabilities since\u00a01985.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe provide a lot of one-on-one assistance\u00a0to help students achieve their goals and graduate from NAU,\u201d said <strong>Wendy Bruun<\/strong>, director of First-Generation Programs and Initiatives at NAU. \u201cThis grant will ensure continuity of services for continuing students as well as invite new participants to join the program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Program services are free and include peer or professional mentoring; access to regular tutoring appointments or private tutors for upper-division courses; workshops on time management, paying for college, personal strengths and campus resources; guidance on academic, career and personal issues; and assistance in graduate school preparation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to know that we will be here to support students for another five years,\u201d Bruun added.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Student Support Services, NAU is home to four other TRIO programs including Upward Bound, Upward Bound Math-Science, Talent Search and Educational Opportunity Centers.<\/p>\n<p>For information, contact the Student Support Services office at (928) 523-6980 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/nau.edu\/sss\">nau.edu\/sss<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-receives-nearly-1-5-million-for-trio-student-support-services\/\">Northern Arizona University has been awarded a TRIO Student Support Services grant from the U.S. Department of Education to continue its program through August 2020. The grant award will be $296,273 annually, totaling about $1,481,365, and will serve 240 first-generation, low-income students or students with disabilities each year. This is in addition\u00a0to institutional support of&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":37962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}