Serving Their Share: Some Colleges Could Be Doing a Much Better Job Enrolling and Graduating Low-Income Students

Campbell, ColleenVoight, Mamie2018-05-072018-05-072015-10-01http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83118The report outlines ways colleges and universities can improve access and attainment for underserved students, particularly Pell Grant recipients, who come from low-income backgrounds. The report lists ten prominent public institutions which are failing to enroll as many low-income, high-achieving students as they could, based on their selectivity and other institutions’ enrollment patterns. It also features interviews with administrators from access-improving institutions who exhibit deliberate recruitment and strong leadership focused on recruitment and retention of Pell students.application/pdfCreative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalLow-income studentsstudent financial aidreadiness for schooladmission processServing Their Share: Some Colleges Could Be Doing a Much Better Job Enrolling and Graduating Low-Income StudentsReporthttp://www.ihep.org/sites/default/files/uploads/docs/pubs/ihep_washington_monthly_final_1.pdf