Student Support Services (SSS) is a comprehensive federally funded TRIO program that offers academic assistance to 175 undergraduate students at Eastern Illinois University. Students can become a participant at any point in their undergraduate program (freshman through senior) and remain in the program until they receive their undergraduate degree from EIU. There is no charge for services provided to students through Student Support Services.

The goal of SSS TRIO Program at Eastern Illinois University is to increase retention and graduation rates of eligible students and to foster an institutional climate supportive of the success of low-income and first-generation college students and/or college students with disabilities. All SSS participants are assigned an individual TRIO advisor who will help them in determining their specific strengths and weaknesses so that the program can offer the most appropriate assistance for each student.[Click here to view PowerPoint presentation about TRIO.]