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TRiO
Program
at NICC Receives Five-Year Grant
Posted 17 August 2010
The TRiO-Student
Support Services (TRiO-SSS) program at Northeast Iowa Community College
(NICC) received a federal grant to continue its services through 2015.
The refunding for the program supplies $238,496 a year for five years
and is made possible through federal Higher Education Act legislation.
The TRiO-SSS program serves low-income, first-generation college
students and disabled students who seek a college degree at NICC and
plans to transfer on to a four-year institution.
The Peosta campus TRiO-SSS program was one of 1,500 proposals in the
country to be submitted during the current legislative session. All of
the current TRiO-SSS programs in Iowa received the renewed funding, and
several new programs will get their start because of the federal
support.
TRiO-SSS program directors and staff at the Peosta campus said that the
competitive grant-funded program receives the five-year approval based
upon many criteria, including data that shows the program is successful
for students who participate. “According to government regulations,
two-thirds of the students TRiO-SSS serves must be first-generation,
low income college students. At NICC, we have real need,” said Cindy
Benedict, TRiO-SSS director. “Over half of the students at NICC are
first-generation college students who are from families where neither
parent holds a college degree. Also this past year, of the 160 students
we serve, 80 percent are classified as low income. That’s huge,”
Benedict said.
The major TRiO-SSS program objectives for the past year are:
persistence, a measure of the percentage of students in the program who
completed the academic programs in which they were enrolled; good
academic standing, which is the percentage of students who maintain a
2.0 cumulative GPA at NICC; and the graduation/transfer rate of
TRiO-SSS students. Benedict said that this year Congress rewrote areas
of Higher Education Act legislation, and those changes now require that
the third objective shows both the graduation rate for students in
their program and the rate of students who graduate and transfer to a
four-year college or university.
Benedict said that the program at Peosta put up successful numbers in
2009-2010, with 83 percent of TRiO-SSS students completing their
academic programs, 89 percent maintaining good academic standing and 67
percent graduating or transferring to earn a bachelor’s degree. The
successful program she directs, along with three other TRiO-SSS staff
members, is due in large part to their efforts to build connections and
relationships with NICC students, she said.
“We bond them to the college. NICC is a commuter campus and we
completely understand that. We try to make our students’ experience
more like a family in TRiO-SSS. If we notice that a student is
struggling academically or in other ways, we direct the student to
other services at NICC and in the community,” Benedict said.
Students praise TRiO-SSS for the support the program offers, such as
NICC 2010 graduate Ashley McClain. “The TRiO-Student Support Services
program has been a foundation of my academic success. There is always
someone in the office if you need to talk about anything, which makes
me feel at ease every time I walk into the office,” said McClain, of
Dubuque, an Associate in Arts-Business Administration graduate who is
transferring to the University of Dubuque this fall.
In addition to the TRiO-SSS program, the NICC Peosta and Calmar
campuses each have a TRiO-Upward Bound program. TRiO-UB serves high
school students from low-income families and from families in which
neither parent holds a bachelor's degree. Both programs seek to provide
support that assist students in enrolling in, and ultimately graduating
from, institutions of post-secondary education.
For more information on TRiO programs at NICC, visit www.nicc.edu.
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