{"id":194789,"date":"2025-07-14T20:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=194789"},"modified":"2025-07-14T20:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:35:12","slug":"nscc-receives-five-year-federal-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/07\/14\/nscc-receives-five-year-federal-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"NSCC receives five year federal grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ARCHBOLD &#8212; Northwest State Community College has received a five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education for TRIO-SSS (student support services). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About TRIO-SSS\/student support services<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Per the Department of Education, \u201cThe purpose of the Student Support Services Program (SSS) is to increase the number of disadvantaged low-income college students, first-generation college students, and college students with disabilities in the United States who successfully complete a program of study at the postsecondary level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TRIO-SSS AT NSCC \u2013 by the numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Per Cassie Rickenberg, NSCC Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, \u201cTRIO continues to be a transformative program for NSCC students. From 2020 to 2025, TRIO served 305 students; of those, 121 graduated from NSCC or transferred to a four-year institution, and more than 100 remain actively enrolled. TRIO participants persist at a rate 19% higher than the general student population at NSCC, according to TRIO data and the U.S. Department of Education Scorecard. The program plays a vital role in supporting first-generation college students, learners with disabilities, and those who are Pell-eligible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional information on NSCC degree and certificate programs, including transfer pathways, is available at https:\/\/northweststate.edu. For more information on the TRIO-SSS program at Northwest State, including available services and eligibility requirements, visit https:\/\/northweststate.edu\/trio-2\/ or call 419-267-1339.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information ARCHBOLD &#8212; Northwest State Community College has received a five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education for TRIO-SSS (student support services). About TRIO-SSS\/student support services Per the Department of Education, \u201cThe purpose of the Student Support Services Program (SSS) is to increase the number of disadvantaged low-income college students, first-generation college students, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 22:20:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194790,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194789\/revisions\/194790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}