Announcements

11th Annual Student Leadership Conference Forms are now Available

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Classic Upward Bound RFP Released

http://www.Grants.gov

The U.S. Department of Education announced that the Notice Inviting Applications (notice) for new regular Upward Bound (UB) awards for fiscal year 2012 was published on Monday, December 19, 2011, in the Federal Register (Volume 76, Number 243, pages 78621-78627).

Applications are due Monday, January 30, 2012 at 4:30 p.m., Washington DC time.

The notice is available on the UB page of the Student Service Web site at http://www2.ed.gov/programs/trioupbound/index.html under "Applicant Information".

Questions can be emailed to TRIO@ed.gov or phoned to Mr. Ken Waters at (202) 502-7586 or Ms. Gaby Watts at (202) 502-7545.

WV TRiO in the News

WV TRiO President Scott Robertson has for the second time in two months submitted an opinion piece to the Herald-Dispatch (You can find the first one if you click here). Unfortunately his second opinion piece is not availble online, but if you click here you can read it. Please consider writing to your local paper to let your community know how the budget fights in Washington will affect our local communities access to higher education!

WV TRiO/VAEOPP 2012 Fall Conference

Look for information about next year's conference at the Charleston Marriott in Charleston, West Virginia as soon as it becomes available!

Alumni

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WV TRiO

WV TRiO is the state association of federally funded TRiO programs in West Virginia. As of September 1, 2011 there are 29 TRiO programs in West Virginia. Twenty-five (25) of those programs belong to WV TRiO. WV TRiO is a 501(c) non-profit organization recognized by MEAEOPP (our regional association...Mid Eastern Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel) and COE (our national association...Council for Opportunity in Education) as a state TRiO organization.

Our Mission

The mission of the Association is to promote equal educational opportunity and greater accessibility to higher education for the TRiO eligible student. WV TRiO seeks to bring together those persons who have an active interest in becoming professionally involved in broadening access to and retention in post-secondary education. The Association also seeks to provide professional staff development to ensure that qualified and informed professionals are engaged in the delivery role with the client population.