Ouachita hosts TRIO Family Day for prospective students Oct. 24
October 22, 2009 - Rebecca Stone
Ouachita Baptist University’s TRIO Program will host the annual TRIO Family Day Saturday,
Oct. 24. Activities for prospective high school students and their families will begin
at 9 a.m. and last until 12 noon.
Brenda Bradley-Philson, Ouachita’s associate TRIO director, said, “The TRIO day is
hosted to bring participants from the public schools and their families to campus
to provide academic and financial aid information to the students served through the
outreach programs of Educational Talent Search and Upward Bound.”
Both of these programs were part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society Program”
instituted in the mid-1960s. Educational Talent Search is a program that is designed
to identify promising students and Upward Bound prepares these students to take on
college level work. Ouachita’s TRIO Program also offers Student Support Services
that is meant to ensure college retention and graduation.
TRIO family day will begin with a breakfast for participants and will include informative
sessions as well as door prizes. At the end of the day participants are invited to
attend the OBU football game at 1:30 p.m. where the Tigers will take on the Southwest
Baptist Bearcats.
Attendance to TRIO Family Day is free of charge.
By Rebecca Stone
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