Feds award $2.6M to FRCC for disadvantaged students
LONGMONT and WESTMINSTER — The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Front Range Community College two $1.3 million grants to support the school’s TRIO program at the Longmont and Westminster campuses.
The TRIO program provides tutoring, financial assistance and mentoring for students from low-income families, first generation college attendees and those with disabilities.
“Having worked for and supervised TRIO programs at multiple institutions, I can definitively state that TRIO works,” FRCC vice president Elena Sandoval-Lucero said in a prepared statement. “I am so excited that students at FRCC’s Boulder County Campus will have the opportunity to participate in this extremely effective program.”
SPONSORED CONTENT
How dispatchable resources enable the clean energy transition
Platte River must prepare for the retirement of 431 megawatts (MW) of dispatchable, coal-fired generation by the end of the decade and address more frequent extreme weather events that can bring dark calms (periods when there is no sun or wind).
© 2020 BizWest Media LLC
LONGMONT and WESTMINSTER — The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Front Range Community College two $1.3 million grants to support the school’s TRIO program at the Longmont and Westminster campuses.
The TRIO program provides tutoring, financial assistance and mentoring for students from low-income families, first generation college attendees and those with disabilities.
“Having worked for and supervised TRIO programs at multiple institutions, I can definitively state that TRIO works,” FRCC vice president Elena Sandoval-Lucero said in a prepared statement. “I am so excited that students at FRCC’s Boulder County Campus will have the opportunity to…
THIS ARTICLE IS FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY
Continue reading for less than $3 per week!
Get a month of award-winning local business news, trends and insights
Access award-winning content today!