Programs

TRIO Programs

• Educational Opportunity Centers
• Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement
• Student Support Services
• Talent Search
• Training Program for Federal TRIO Staff
• Upward Bound
• Upward Bound Math/Science
• Veterans Upward Bound

Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP)

College Access Challenge Grant Program

Graduate Programs

• Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN)

Other Access and Scholarship Programs

• Career and Educational Pathways Exploration System (Career Pathways) Program
• Child Care Access Means Parents in School
• Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity
• Erma Byrd Scholarship Program

News and Information

• Funding Opportunities in the Student Service area and/or OPE-wide
• U.S. Department of Education (ED) Federal Register Notices
• The table of Federal TRIO Programs Low-Income Levels is available.
• Letter to TRIO and GEAR UP programs' project directors about an ED and HHS collaborative for disconnected youth (MS Word, 76K)
• Grantmaking at ED, a non-technical summary of ED’s discretionary grant process and the laws and regulations that govern it.
• Training Oppportunities for Federal TRIO Programs' Personnel
• TRIO 50th Anniversary Retrospective (an ED YouTube video best viewed in Google Chrome, 7:51 minutes)
• Get information about federal student loan reduction or forgiveness.

More News:

• All Office of Postsecondary Education open grant program competitions
• Student Service Newsletters

About the Student Service

Student Service Organizational Structure

The Student Service performs planning, program development, and grant administration functions for the Federal TRIO programs; the Child Care Access Means Parents in School program; the Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity program; Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP); the College Access Challenge Grant Program; the Graduate Fellowships Programs (Title VII, Part A, HEA); and the Erma Byrd Scholarship Program. Dr. Linda Byrd-Johnson is the Senior Director of the Student Service.

The service defines and articulates program goals and objectives; identifies and implements policy changes needed to achieve goals and objectives; evaluates program effectiveness; develops and updates policy manuals, program regulations, and proposed legislative amendments; prepares program budget requests; and prepares an annual funding schedule and funding strategy, incorporating the Secretary's goals and objectives; develops funding criteria and funding priorities for publication in the Federal Register.

The Student Service is responsible for managing the grant awards processes for new applicants and non-competing continuation grantees and for providing overall management and monitoring of ongoing projects, including technical assistance to funded grantees, data gathering and analysis, and grant close-out activities.



U.S. Department of Education
Office of Postsecondary Education
Higher Education Programs, Student Service
Lyndon Baines Johnson Building, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W.
Washington, DC 20202
Questions or Comments? OPE_TRIO@ed.gov
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