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 College President Daniel G. Lugo speaks with WFSB about the College’s new Hometown Hartford initiative, through which admitted students from Hartford will receive a Capital City Grant covering the full cost of tuition, room, and board.
The Hockey News follows the story of Dominique DiDia ’12 and Kim Weiss ’11, who met as Trinity teammates and now are general manager and coach of the new Professional Women’s Hockey League team in Las Vegas.
Fine Books & Collections—a quarterly magazine and daily blog about rare books, fine art, and collecting—reports on a discovery at Trinity College’s Watkinson Library of a page of previously unrecorded 15th century printing.
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.
