TRIO Student Support Services

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    TRIO SSS Student: Abril Radillo Luna
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    TRIO SSS Student: Beeke Kadriu
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    TRIO SSS Student: Hamsa Ibrahim
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    TRIO SSS Student: Lieu Dinh
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    TRIO SSS Student: Rachel Nill

TRIO SSS helps bachelor degree-seeking students complete their degree within four to six years and prepare for life beyond college.

SSS Services  Apply to SSSMeet the SSS Team

The following services are FREE to accepted students:

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SSS provides grant aid to qualified SSS participants and assists students in completing the FAFSA, scholarship applications, and budgeting college expenses.

Financial Assistance/Literacy
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A 5-week summer residential program for incoming first-time freshmen. Students earn college credit, build necessary skills, connect with peers and learn how to navigate college life.

Summer Bridge

 

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Students receive both individual and group coaching and guidance to identify barriers to their degree completion and provide support when needed.

Coaching/Guidance
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All new SSS participants are required to enroll in a first year foundations course that is exclusively designed to equip students for college success

First Year Course

 

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SSS staff assists students in identifying their skill sets and desired lifestyle and connecting them to available degree pathways, through hands on exploration.

Career Exploration/ Degree Planning

 

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SSS offers workshops and experiences designed to develop participant's abilities to navigate college and stand out in the workforce.

Skill Development

 

  • Eligibility Criteria

    You must be a bachelors degree-seeking student at UAA and meet at least one of the eligibility criteria:

    1. Be within the 2024 Federal Income guidelines or
    2. Be a first Generation college student (neither parents have a bachelors degree) or
    3. Receive services from Disability Support Services at UAA
    Family Size Alaska
    1 $28,215
    2 $38,310
    3 $48,405
    4 $58,500
    5 $68,595
    6 $78,690
    7 $88,785
    8 $98,880

     

     

  • TRIO SSS Application

    TRIO SSS Application

TRIO Student Support Services Team

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Joshua Smith

Assistant Director
Rasmuson Hall 103A3
(907) 786-4099
jjsmith30@alaska.edu

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Tamika Dowdy

TRIO Programs Director
Rasmuson Hall 103A
(907) 786-4520
tfdowdy@alaska.edu

 

TRIO Student Support Services is a fully-funded TRIO program of the U.S. Department of Education in the amount of $278,100.00 annually. Sec.402D HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 SEC.402D.20 U.S.C 1070a-14.