Trinity was selected as one of five universities by the Schuler Education Foundation. The partnership pledges to raise her $60 million to help highly educated, low-income students enroll at Trinity. In this her second year of the Schuler Access Initiative, Trinity joins Barnard College, Center College, Scripps College and Holy Cross College as the newest cohort of partner colleges.

In a message to the Trinity College community, Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney wrote: Once this matching grant is complete, Trinity will be more accessible to qualified and talented students who come from families where affordability is a major barrier. This initiative will change your life. It will open doors for individuals who may have thought a good liberal arts education was out of reach. ”

As part of this initiative, the Schuler Education Foundation will contribute $20 million to current financial aid. This he spent ten years. Trinity matches this by raising her $40 million endowment for both financial aid and academic and co-curricular programs. Support participating students. The program will focus on students with the highest financial need, those eligible for Pell grants, and those who are undocumented.

Matt Hyde, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, added: A dimension at the highest level of our applicant pool needs. As Trinity expands its support to students who were once financially out of reach, we expect the new Bantam to have a significant impact on the Trinity community and ultimately the world beyond. . ”

Anita Davis, Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, said the funding will give Trinity an opportunity to advance its goal of fostering a campus community where all students can succeed academically and socially. rice field. “The donation from the Schuler Education Foundation is extremely important,” she says. “This supports Trinity’s continued efforts to provide more access to more students and is a reminder that we need to devote more resources to the student experience once they arrive on campus. It allows us to respond to what we learn.”

This initiative counts towards the overall goal of raising $100 million for financial assistance within Trinity’s current comprehensive campaign, which is currently in its leadership phase.

“By increasing access to outstanding students, we will make Trinity better in every way by educating bold, independent thinkers who lead extraordinary lives,” continued Berger-Sweeney. “We have the ability to make a fundamental difference in the lives of these amazing students and in the lives of everyone who interacts with them. , ultimately serving the public good.”

Jack Schuler, co-founder of the Schuler Education Foundation, writes: Serving a wide range of students, these partnerships with five additional top colleges give him the opportunity to support even more non-regular and Pell-qualified students. ”

Foundation co-founder Tanya Schuler Sharman adds: All student fees. ”

Last year was the first year that the Schuler Access Initiative expanded Matching Grants to five colleges: Bates College, Carleton College, Kenyon College, Tufts University and Union College. The Schuler Education Foundation is investing up to $500 million to significantly expand access to highly selective liberal arts colleges for both Pell-eligible and non-regular students. With matching funding from partner universities, the project will generate more than $1 billion of her investment in underserved populations.

For information on how to enter the Schuler Access Initiative Matching Gift Challenge, please contact Campaign Director Caitlin Gasiorski at 860-297-2406 or caitlin.gasiorski@trincoll.edu.

In the short video below, Henry Chavez ’18 talks about the importance of financial aid and how it supports and empowers students like him. “Financial assistance is important because it gives you the opportunity to say, ‘I can knock on the door and see what’s out there,'” he said. Chavez, who came to the United States from El Salvador when he was two years old, majored in political science and urban studies at Trinity, and is now a senior at Google, where he is a performance agency, where he is a manager. “I would like to say ‘thank you’ to the Schuler Foundation.” Thank you for believing in students from very different walks of life. There are people out there who are dedicated to training them to become leaders.