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TRIO PROGRAMS
Goal: Provide increased educational opportunities for low-income, first-generation students.
Relationship of Program to Volume 1, Department-wide Objectives: Supports Objective 3.1 (secondary school students get college preparatory support) and Objective
3.2 (postsecondary students receive support for high-quality education) by funding organizations to provide the necessary support services to enable disadvantaged
students to pursue postsecondary opportunities.
FY 2000—$645,000,000
FY 2001—$725,000,000 (Requested budget)
OBJECTIVE 1: INCREASE PARTICIPATION AND COMPLETION RATES OF LOW-INCOME, FIRST-GENERATION INDIVIDUALS IN THE ACADEMIC PIPELINE.
Indicator 1.1 Persistence in and completion of education programs: TRIO students will persist in and complete their educational programs.
Targets and Performance Data Assessment of Progress Sources and Data Quality
Upward Bound (UB): Length of time Upward Bound students participate in the Status: No 1999 data. Source: Mathematica Upward Bound evaluation,
project during high school, and college enrollment rates of UB participants 1999.
Year Actual Performance Performance
Project Persistence College Enrollment Targets
1996: 19 months (base) No data available
1997: No data available 78% (in 1998-99)
1999: No data available No target set
2000:
2001:
College persistence
Year Actual Performance Performance
Targets
1994: 67% (base)
1999: No data available No target set
2000: 67%
2001: 67%
College completion
Year Actual Performance Performance
Targets
1998: 29% (base)
1999: No data available No target set
2000: 29%
2001: 29%
INDICATOR CHANGES
From FY 1999 Annual Plan (two years old)
Adjusted
Indicator 1.2—Postsecondary enrollment in the FY 1999 plan was revised for the FY 2000 plan to include only Upward Bound participants. Further, the comparison group was
changed from “comparable nonparticipants” to the “national average.”
Dropped
Indicator 1.1—High school completion in the FY 1999 plan was dropped from the FY 2000 plan.
Indicator 2.1 (postsecondary persistence and completion)—the third part of this indicator was dropped from the FY 2000 plan.
Indicator 3.1 (graduate school enrollment and completion)—the second part of this indicator was dropped from the FY 2000 plan.
Indicators 4.1, 4.3, 4.4 were dropped as well as Objective 5 and all of its indicators.
From FY 2000 Annual Plan (last year’s)
Adjusted—None.
Dropped
Indicators 1.1, 2.1, and 3.1 were dropped and replaced by one new indicator to measure TRIO students’ persistence and completion of their educational programs. Because reliable
baseline data on postsecondary graduation rates of Upward Bound participants and graduate degree attainment rates for McNair participants are not yet available, these measures are
not included in the FY 2001 plan.
References in the FY 2000 plan to “comparable nonparticipants” have been deleted.
Indicator 2.2 was also dropped, because we have no plans at this time to collect additional data on customer satisfaction.
New
New baseline data and annual performance targets for the Upward Bound, Student Support Services, and McNair programs have been added to the FY 2001 plan.