A new policy brief highlights the employment and earnings gains experienced by Latine students who graduate from community college baccalaureate programs—and calls on practitioners and policymakers to ensure that more students can benefit from the model.
Admissions & Outcomes Archive
What’s preventing stopped-out students from returning to campus?
A national survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education finds that students who left college without a degree often had complicated interactions with higher ed that discourage them from completing their programs. Understanding their experiences can help colleges bring them back.
Community college students face financial obstacles to staying enrolled
A new survey of stopped-out and currently enrolled community college students finds that work obligations and college costs are major reasons why they leave their programs. Policies focused on reducing financial barriers can help.
Dartmouth reinstates SAT/ACT requirement, citing diversity goals
Dartmouth College recently became the first Ivy League school to reactivate its SAT/ACT requirement for applicants, saying that standardized test results help admissions officers to notice promising students from less-resourced backgrounds who “might otherwise be missed in a test-optional environment.”
Student groups withered during COVID. Reviving them hasn’t been easy.
Finding that the pandemic made a large and lasting dent in their student organizations, colleges are working to increase participation in hopes of reducing students’ social isolation and boosting their academic success, wellbeing, and life skills.
Pennsylvania’s new blueprint for state colleges focuses on access, affordability
Pennsylvania’s governor has proposed an overhaul of the state’s public higher education system aimed at improving workforce development and increasing college access and affordability for low- and middle-income families.
Report: Racial, gender gaps persist despite degree attainment gains
A new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce finds that the share of U.S. adults with college degrees has increased across all demographic groups, but ongoing gaps between white adults and adults from historically underrepresented groups fuel disparities in lifetime earnings that weaken the U.S. economy.
Guaranteed college admission in ninth grade?
California State University, Fresno is offering college admission to public high school students as early as the ninth grade in hopes of creating a college-going mindset and increasing enrollment.
Making study abroad more affordable
Studying abroad can be out of reach for first-generation and low-income college students due to travel and program costs. Colleges and their financial partners are working to expand access.
Rethinking standardized test scores in college admissions
Although a number of selective universities have adopted test-optional admissions policies to achieve greater racial and socioeconomic diversity among their students, some experts are questioning whether the approach creates unnecessary blind spots.
The changing nature of ‘merit’ aid at public institutions
Public colleges and universities are increasingly providing tuition discounts for wealthier students through non-need-based “merit” aid. The trend is exacerbating disparities in college access for lower-income students, experts say.
To boost Latine enrollment, colleges need to meet students’ financial needs
A national poll by The Chronicle of Higher Education finds that the vast majority of Latine students have considered attending college. Financial concerns prevent them from doing so.