Paying Colleges to Boost Student Success Could Work – If States Get It Right
April 01, 2021 by Ed Trust A new report by Ed Trust offers a blueprint for designing outcomes-based funding strategies that reward higher education equity Washington (April 1, 2021) – While more than 30 states have…
What Kind of School Produces Hundreds of Top African American Scientists?
January 22, 2021 by Karin Chenoweth, Tanji Reed Marshall, Ph.D. One where educators take responsibility to help students thrive, excel, and be intellectually curious. More than 30 years ago, Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III began a small program at the…
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Graduation Rates Don’t Tell the Full Story: Racial Gaps in College Success Are Larger Than We Think
March 05, 2020 by Andrew Howard Nichols, Marshall Anthony Jr. “Student success” is a popular buzz phrase, but it means different things to different people. College and university administrators tend to measure student success on the basis of graduation rates.…
Getting To & Through College: The Benefits of Taking Advanced Coursework
January 08, 2020 by Gabriela Montell Colleges are the pipeline to good jobs and the middle class, yet for many students of color and students from low-income backgrounds, a higher education degree remains out of reach.…
Getting To & Through College: “If It’s Not Paid For, I’m Not Going”
December 17, 2019 by Gabriela Montell Meet Sancia Celestin, a senior at George Mason University. Raised by her mother, a Haitian immigrant who works 12-hour shifts as a nursing assistant to support her two kids, Sancia…
Getting To & Through College: Joscelyn Guzman
September 30, 2019 by Gabriela Montell More Latinos are going to college than ever before, but as Joscelyn Guzman, a first-generation Mexican-American learned firsthand, getting there is the first of many hurdles on the road to…
Which States Make the Grade When It Comes to Enrolling and Graduating Latino College Students?
September 11, 2019 by Ed Trust None of Them, According to New Ed Trust Research WASHINGTON (September 11, 2019) — When it comes to enrolling and graduating Latinos, public colleges and universities in most states are…
Degree Attainment of Latinos Lags Far Behind That of Whites
April 01, 2019 by J. Oliver Schak In last year’s briefs, we analyzed national and state data on degree attainment for Black and Latino adults , ages 25-64. Slightly more than 22 percent of Latino adults have…