Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney spoke recently with the Hartford Courant about Trinity’s involvement with the American Talent Initiative, a Bloomberg Philanthropies-supported alliance of colleges and universities that aims to enroll 50,000 more low- to middle-income students by 2025.
Berger-Sweeney said that the initiative’s goal aligns with the college’s own commitment to diversifying its student body, expanding financial aid, and supporting low- and middle-income students once they arrive on campus.
“Talent exists across the socioeconomic spectrum, across zip codes, but access to opportunities isn’t as equally distributed,” Berger-Sweeney told reporter Eliza Fawcett. “It’s our role as educators to make sure we are gaining talent from all of the spectrum.”
The Courant wrote that Trinity has made strides to expand access and financial assistance in recent years: “The college increased its percentage of first-generation students from 12% five years ago to 17% in the class of 2023. Sixty percent of its students are now on financial aid, compared to 48% five years ago. Between 2015 and 2019, Trinity added more than $25 million to its financial aid budget, more than half of which was raised through alumni donations, Berger-Sweeney said.”
The article also includes quotes from Angel Pérez, Trinity’s vice president for enrollment and student success, and students Ailani Cruceta ’22 and Darius Borges ’20.
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Trinity has announced that it will cover full tuition, housing, and meals for admitted students who live in Hartford. Trinity also is eliminating application fees and offering half-tuition grants to admitted students from Hartford County and five neighboring counties.
Trinity College is included in The Princeton Review’s newly released list, “The Best 392 Colleges: 2027 Edition.” Trinity is among 10 higher institutions in Connecticut to be featured on the unranked list.
Trinity College’s Austin Arts Center and its resident theater company, HartBeat Ensemble, will present Athol Fugard’s South African drama “A Lesson from Aloes” from October 8 through October 17, 2026.
Trinity is number 5 for liberal arts colleges and moved up to number 36 nationally among all colleges and universities on LinkedIn’s second annual list of best colleges for long-term career success in the U.S.
