Press Room

This page contains links to external web pages about MEEOA, TRIO, and educational opportunity in Maine. If you have an article you would like to contribute, please contact Casey Henderson (casey.henderson@maine.edu).

• TRIO segment on Good Morning America

• UMF program awarded $1.76M grant to support first-generation, low-income students

• Rusty Brown: Upward Bound alum gives back to transformative program

• Maine TRIO and GEAR UP Advocacy Day - WABI coverage

• Obituary for Jerry Ellis

• Darylen Cote Inducted into Maine Women's Hall of Fame

• Upward Bound Alumni and Parents to Mail over 1200 Letters to the Department of Education

• Students urge lawmakers to support college access programs

• Maine's TRIO & Gear Up Programs Spread Awareness at State House

• College Preparation Workshops for Adults

• Thomas College Receives $1 Million to Help to Support Low Income Students

• Limestone student interns at newspaper company

• How Upward Bound helps low-income, first-generation students succeed

• TRIO Student Support Services at York County Community County (YCCC) in Wells was pleased to be honoured by a visit from Senator Angus King Of Maine. He chatted with students about their experiences at YCCC and with TRIO SSS. We greatly appreciate Senator King's strong support for TRIO and thanked him most sincerely! Click here to view the pictures

• Educational Opportunity: Opening Doors to Prosperity from Someone Who Knows

• Rev. James Nadeau to receive Achiever Award on Jan. 7 in Bangor

• Oxford Hills senior named to national choir
  http://www.sunjournal.com/news/oxford-hills/2013/10/08/oxford-hills-senior-named-national-choir/1430836#.UlUhBIsqj8c.facebook

• Worcester State Administrator to Appear at TRIO Briefing on Capitol Hill
  https://wordpress.worcester.edu/worcester-state-administrator-to-appear-at-trio-briefing-on-capitol-hill/

• Mainer Tells Congress poverty can be beaten
  http://www.pressherald.com/politics/mainer-tells-congress-poverty-can-be-beaten_2013-05-17.html

• How to Fill the 'Skills Gap' - http://bangordailynews.com/2013/04/05/opinion/editorials/how-to-fill-the-skills-gap/

• Maine Voices: Funding for Upward Bound improves lives and benefits society - Portland Press Herald article, March 13, 2013 Maine Voices: Funding for Upward Bound improves lives and benefits society. The success stories of graduates show the importance of keeping this federal program alive.

• Upward Bound and Educational Talent Search blend to create TRIO College Access Services

• TRIO Story on WAGM-TV

• Federal Government Denies Funding to UMaine Upward Bound Program

• Sequestration Threatens College Faculty and Students