Zoey Griffith lived in a Morehead State University dorm the summer after ninth grade, taking core classes and electives while preparing for her sophomore year. She felt nervous and cried when her father left on move-in day. Her mother, a former teen parent, urged her to avoid the same path, while her father discouraged higher education. A stepsister connected her with Upward Bound, which offers summer college dorm experiences, classes, SAT and financial-literacy workshops, year-round tutoring, and individual success plans. Griffith later enrolled at Maysville Community and Technical College with plans to become an ultrasound technician. TRIO now umbrellas eight federal programs serving roughly 870,000 students annually.
The summer after ninth grade, Zoey Griffith found herself in an unfamiliar setting: a dorm on the Morehead State University campus. There, she'd spend the months before her sophomore year taking classes in core subjects like math and biology, as well as electives like oil painting. For Griffith, it was an opportunity, but a scary one. "It was a big deal for me to live on campus at the age of 14," she said.
Her stepsister had introduced her to a federal program called Upward Bound. It places high school students in college dorms during the summer, where they can take classes and participate in workshops on preparing for the SAT and financial literacy. During the school year, students get tutoring and work on what are called "individual success plans." It's part of a group of federal programs, known as TRIO, aimed at helping low-income and first-generation students earn a college degree.
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