FORT KENT — The TRiO, Student Support Services Program at the University of Maine at Fort Kent held its fifth annual recognition banquet on April 17 to honor students involved in the TRiO program.
TRiO Student Support Services is funded through the Department of Education under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and are referred to as the TRiO Programs because there were initially three programs. TRiO programs are designed to help low-income, first-generation and/or disabled students, under the guidelines of the American with Disabilities Act, Americans enter college, graduate and move on to participate more fully in America’s economic and social life.
The Student Support Services Program’s focus is to insure that their participants have a realistic chance to persist in school and graduate from the University of Maine at Fort Kent. To accomplish these objectives, they provide services to enhance students’ academic success, personal skills and social skills.
The banquet’s keynote speaker was Reverend James Nadeau, the St. John Vianney Parish priest. He is an alumnus of TRiO’s Upward Bound program.
The 2013 Student Support Services awards were given to the following students:
Honorable Mention in the Most Successful Freshman category: Devon Brewer, Lisbon Falls, and Jennifer Reis, New Sharon.
The following students were recognized for their significant determination and persistence towards academic achievement and attaining their academic goals:
Outstanding Persistence Award: Chelsea Frey, Weld, and Kate Laliberte, Mount Vernon.
TRiO Helping TRiO Recognition: Hannah Mikkonen, Peru.
The following TRiO students, who graduated in May, were recognized and presented with their Student Support Services cords, which they could wear at graduation. The graduates-to-be who were honored included Alisha Gould, Oxford, and Hannah Mikkonen, Peru.
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