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Promoting Inclusion and Identity Safety to Support College Success
(The Century Foundation, 2016-05-18)
As the accounts from Michelle Obama and Sonia Sotomayor poignantly illustrate, going to college can often be an ambivalent experience for low-income, first-generation, and racial and ethnic minority students. Drawing on ...
Reading Between the Data: The Incomplete Story of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
(Center for American Progress, 2014-03-01)
Income inequality has become one of our greatest obstacles to economic mobility, as U.S. residents today face unequal opportunities and access to the American Dream. Some people have it better than others: Whites earn ...
National Survey of Student Engagement (2015): Engagement Insights: Survey Findings on the Quality of Undergraduate Education
(National Survey of Student Engagement Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research, 2015)
In 2015, NSSE collected responses from more than 315,000 first-year and senior students attending 585 bachelor’s degree-granting colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The following pages present selected ...
When College Students Start Behind
(The Century Foundation, 2016-06-02)
Almost two-thirds of students who enter community colleges every year are judged to be academically not ready to engage in college-level coursework. The bulk of the evidence, however, suggests that the $4 billion annual ...
In the Shadows of the Ivory Tower: Undocumented Undergraduates and the Liminal State of Immigration Reform
(Institute for Immigration, Globalization, & Education at University of California; UndocuScholars Community Advisory Board, 2015)
Amidst the turbulent cross-currents of immigration reform, nearly a quarter of a million undocumented undergraduates are struggling to find their way in higher education. Their liminal state calls for research to inform ...
Benefits Access for College Completion: Lessons Learned from a Community College Initiative to Help Low Income Students
(Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), 2017-04-01)
The Benefits Access for College Completion (BACC) initiative was a multi-year initiative designed to provide community college students with access to a full range of public benefits in order to reduce financial barriers ...
No Educational Experience Should Be an Island: How Low-Income Students’ Access to and Persistence in Postsecondary Education is Restricted in the Very Programs they Need the Most
(Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), 2016-05-01)
For low-income students, particularly those who are lower-skilled and/or did not enroll in postsecondary education immediately after high school, completing a community-college based workforce development program offers a ...
The Role of Pell Grants in Access, Persistence & Completion
(National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, 2012)
The federal student aid programs were created to increase access to postsecondary education. Research demonstrating the benefits of higher education to individuals and society as a whole validates a long-standing tradition ...
Barriers to Success: High Unmet Financial Need Continues to Endanger Higher Education Opportunities for Low Income Students
(Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), 2015-06-01)
For nearly three in four people, paying for a postsecondary education seems out of reach. The cost of college has far outpaced the growth in incomes for more than a decade. Low-income students are disproportionately affected ...
College Preparation for African American Students: Gaps in the High School Educational Experience
(Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), 2015-02-01)
College degree attainment is regarded as a primary solution to reduce poverty and close wealth gaps between people of color and whites in the United States. With the changing labor market and a more globalized economy, a ...