To honor the students that have succeeded in college with the support of TRIO programs, Kentucky will join TRIO students, college graduates, administrators, counselors and teachers at programs all over the country in celebrating National TRIO DAY on Saturday, Feb. 24.

At Berea College, site of Kentucky's TRIO DAY celebration, administrators and more than 600 middle and high school students who are participants in programs hosted by post-secondary institutions throughout the state will gather to take part in a variety of planned events (see page three for schedule with locations). The students attending are
served by programs headquartered at Berea and Pikeville and Union Colleges; Morehead, Murray State, Eastern Kentucky, Western Kentucky Universities; the University of Louisville, and Hazard, Madisonville, Lexington and Southeast Community Colleges, among others.

There are a total of 47 TRIO programs in Kentucky hosted at 20 post-secondary institutions throughout the state and which currently serve more than 16,000 middle and high school students. Federal funding for all Kentucky TRIO programs in the state totals approximately $13 million.

At Berea College, three TRIO programs, Upward Bound, Upward Bound Math/Science and Talent Search serve students in a seven-county area of south central Kentucky which includes Clinton, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne and Whitley Counties. More than 825 middle and high school students from this area took part in Berea-hosted TRIO programs during FY '99, the most current year for which this information is available, activities which include intensive on-campus sessions during the summer and regular school-based activities during the school-year.

Congress established the TRIO Programs more than 34 years ago to Americans regardless of economic circumstance, race or ethnic background, to successfully enter college and graduate. TRIO programs are designed to identify promising students, prepare them to do college level work, strengthen math and science skills, provide tutoring and support services to students once they reach campus and provide information on academic and financial aid opportunities. Currently, more than 2,400 projects are hosted at over 1,200 post-secondary institutions and more than one hundred community agencies in the U.S.
For more information on Kentucky's TRIO Day activities, contact Mary McLaughlin, director of TRIO programs at Berea College, at (859)985-3270.

More Information on TRIO programs can be found at:
www. trioprograms.org/council/atri_what.html.

Kentucky TRIO Day Schedule
Saturday Feb. 24, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

9 - 11 a.m.
-SCHOLARS BOWL COMPETITION
Upward Bound (high school competition), Frost Bldg., room 26
Talent Search (middle school competition) Alumni Bldg., Activities Room
-CAMPUS TOURS led by TRIO alumni who are now students at Berea College, begin in Alumni Bldg, Baird Lounge

1-2 p.m.
Performance by Hasan Davis, who will portray A.A. Burleigh, a Union Army soldier stationed at Camp Nelson who became one of the first blacks to graduate from Berea College; at Phelps Stokes Chapel

2-3 p.m.
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
- Financial aid (led by The Student Loan People), Phelps Stokes Chapel
- Leadership, personal responsibility and youth violence (led by Hasan Davis), Hall Science Bldg., room 29
- Student Leadership Initiative Program (SLIP) activities for middle schoolers (led by Berea College Bonners Scholars students), Woods-Penniman Bldg., Commons
- Cosmopolitan Club performance, Presser Hall, Gray Auditorium
- Campus Tours, leaving from back of Phelps Stokes Chapel