Well, this is good news. Unless, perhaps, you are already an institution that does this – sure the pool is a deep one, but what’s the net effect when top schools skim the top of it? Still, attaching the research resources to the effort is a good thing – way too much seat-of-the-pants policy and practice in this area.
Looking for Low Income Students
A group of 30 top colleges and universities wants to enroll more low-income students, but critics question whether the focus should be elsewhere.
By Rick Seltzer Inside Higher Ed December 13, 2016
The effort, called the American Talent Initiative, aims to add 50,000 highly qualified students from modest backgrounds to campuses with high graduation rates by the year 2025. A group of 30 colleges and universities have signed on to the initiative, which is being coordinated by the nonprofit Aspen Institute’s College Excellence Program and Ithaka S+R. Bloomberg Philanthropies is providing $1.7 million over two years to start the project, money that won’t go directly to colleges and universities but will be used to fund research on their efforts and related activities.
