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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 20, 2024
“There was a huge gap in below-median income students who were using our platform,” said Steele , adding that Common App measures its equity gap by comparing its student numbers to census data and the U.S. In the 2021-22 application cycle, Common App reached 350,000 below-median income students.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 9, 2023
“We’ve also provided emergency housing, financial support for off-campus temporary housing and scholarships for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students,” says Morishita. There is also a family resource center that supports undocumented students. matching that of the overall student body.
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COE
APRIL 7, 2023
. ### The Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) is a nonprofit organization established in 1981, dedicated to expanding college opportunities for low-income, first-generation students and students with disabilities. To learn more, visit ascendiumeducation.org.
Close the Gap Foundation
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Let's meet Jasmine An English high school teacher from Hesperia, California, Jasmine Hobson Rodriguez joined Close the Gap in March 2021 as a part of Close the Gap’ s inaugural Board of Educators. And so, I’ve been using more public speaking geared curriculum because I think it just helps them become their own person more.
EAB
JULY 17, 2023
A number of VPEMs have shared with me recently that they’re seeing new patterns in prospective student interactions, such as students being markedly less responsive to counselor phone calls. Fortunately, we now have some hard data to turn to, thanks to the latest edition of EAB’s Student Communication Preferences Survey.
NACAC's Admitted
AUGUST 10, 2023
In a previous post , we provided an overview of the project, which is grounded in the work that the Task Force on Standardized Admission Testing for International and US Students completed in 2021. The 2021 task force also noted that simply going test-optional or test-free will not in and of itself universally improve equity.
The University Innovation Alliance
APRIL 26, 2023
What types of students dropped out? In many institutions, it's a low-income student. What happens is that we lose students by the thousands, we find out much later, and there's nothing we can do about it. We've also increased our graduates of color by 85% and our low-income graduates by 46%.
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