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How can a student juggle family/household responsibilities, work sufficient hours for a sustaining wage, and still fulfill the unpaid clinical practicum hours needed to earn a nursing degree?  This pain point led Trellis Foundation to launch the Streamlining Success in Nursing Programs [...]

As a proud graduate of Prairie View A&M University, I’m thrilled to return to my “home away from home” in Texas to begin my role as Grants and Operations Assistant with the Trellis Foundation. Returning [...]

The image many of us have in our heads of the typical college student—someone straight out of high school focused exclusively on their postsecondary studies—is wildly outdated. Today’s students are increasingly juggling work, family, [...]

At the start of the 2023 academic year, we welcomed Shamecca Perkins (Mecca) to the Foundation as our new Graduate Fellow. A former student advisor pursuing her doctoral degree in Educational Psychology at The [...]

I am thrilled to be joining the Trellis Foundation team as a Graduate Fellow! As a first-generation college student, post-secondary education access, opportunity, and success are subjects that hit close to home. Navigating higher [...]

Robert Frost’s poem Nothing Gold Can Stay communicates something beyond impermanence; it speaks to the importance of preservation. Furthermore, in my interpretation, it speaks to the endurance of marginalized communities, those vulnerable to systemic [...]