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TRIO Educational Opportunity Centers

This program provides counseling and information on college admissions, including help in applying for financial aid, to adults who are at least 19 years old and who are seeking a postsecondary education degree.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The primary goal of the program is to increase the number of low-income, first generation individuals who enroll in postsecondary institutions. In 2006, 58% of "college ready" participants enrolled in college.
  • The program office has undertaken numerous activities to strengthen the program, including developing an additional performance measure that will help ensure the program stays focused on the neediest participants, i.e., those who are both low-income and potential first generation college students.
  • The program has an efficiency measure--cost per recipient enrolling in college, re-enrolling in college, or enrolling in continuing education--but has not yet established targets against which to judge performance.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Analyzing grantee performance and make grantee-level performance data available to the public on the web.
  • Establishing targets for the efficiency measure.
  • Developing a strategy for conducting an evaluation of the program.

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