This house is home to Carleton’s TRIO/Student Support Services (SSS) program, which assists participants in overcoming social, cultural, financial, personal, academic, and other challenges to fully participate in college life and ultimately achieve the goal of graduation. They provide advising, mentoring, and more for students who are first-generation, low income, and/or have a documented disability.
Fun fact: TRIO actually isn’t an acronym, despite what its all-caps name may imply. It refers to a “trio” of federally-funded programs launched in the 1960s that encouraged access to higher education for low-income students: Upward Bound, an experimental program established by the Educational Opportunity Act of 1964; Talent Search, created by the Higher Education Act in 1965; and Special Services for Disadvantaged Students, which launched in 1968.