A New Near-Peer Coaching Program Strives to Keep Incoming Freshmen on Course
June 10, 2021 by Paula Kashtan The ongoing pandemic has been an incredible challenge for graduating high school seniors in virtually every way. First-generation and low-income students face daunting hurdles on the way to college even…
Paying Colleges to Boost Student Success Could Work – If States Get It Right
April 01, 2021 by EdTrust 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…