News & Events
News and Events
The ETS staff works hard to keep students and parents informed of TRiO news and events. Some of our correspondence is done through the mail, but students will stay most informed if they attend their assigned monthly workshop or stop in to see their ETS coordinator at school.
"University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley's Trio/Educational Talent Search program helps underprivileged students prepare for college," Appleton Post-Crescent, Oct. 14.
...The 15-year-old Menasha High School sophomore may well reach that goal, with help from a three-year-old federal program helping underprivileged Kaukauna and Menasha students get into college. "We have to motivate students to believe that it is a possibility for them," said Terri Holzman, director of Trio/Educational Talent Search, a program of the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley that works with the public schools. "Coming from low-income families, I'm sure that they hear things like, 'College? Are you kidding? We can't afford college'"...
Read the full article for the Post-Crescent
Regents recognize 2009 recipients of Academic Staff Awards for Excellence
Terri Holzman & Regent Vasquez
Director Terri Holzman accepted the program Academic Staff Excellence Award on behalf of the Educational Talent Search Program at UW-Fox Valley.
In presenting the award, Regent José Vásquez said the ETS program addressed two of the primary concerns and priorities of the Board: increasing the number of baccalaureate degree holders in the state and increasing the diversity of the UW System student body and graduates. “It will only be when we have truly diverse and successful graduates from our university system that we will be able to call ourselves institutions of excellence,” Vásquez said.
“There could be no better sponsor for this program than the UW System with its ability to take a vision and grow it into a relevant, vital community asset,” Holzman said.
“To be able to instill hope, determination, possibility and the opportunity of pursuing college within our students has been extremely rewarding,” said ETS program coordinator Dawn Grenzer.
To read the full article, click here http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2009/r090605.htm
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