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New Innovative Grant at Cal Poly Pomona Raised Graduation Rates, Lowered Equity Gaps

After establishing an innovative Summer Completion Initiative Grant, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona), accomplished the initiative’s mission of providing the required classes and support necessary to help students with 8 units or less complete their degree. The program had a 93 percent graduation rate. Last spring, the university reached out to […]

November 1, 2018

Latest News

Report Highlights Why Minority Adults in California Leave College Before Earning Degree

Four million, or five percent of adults living in California aged 25-64 have left the state’s colleges and universities due to financial barriers, personal obligations and institutional roadblocks according to a new report.

October 11, 2018

Recruitment & Retention

UT Austin’s Achieves Highest Four-Year Graduation Rate in its History

The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)’s Class of 2018 achieved the highest graduation rate of 69.8 percent for a four-year program in the university and of any public university in the state during the recent academic year. Among the percent of UT Austin’s most recent graduates, a record number of minority, first-generation and […]

September 27, 2018

African-American

UNCF Lauds Congress for Increased Funding for HBCUs, Low-Income, First-Gen Students

Leaders from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) are applauding the recent passing of the Conference Report to H.R. 6157, the Departments of Defense and Labor; Health and Human Services; and Education Appropriations Act of 2019. UNCF president and CEO Dr. Michael L. Lomax said organization officials are “thrilled” with the bill’s appropriation outcome, according […]

September 27, 2018

Latest News

Report: TN, NY Free College Programs Fall Short on Improving College Affordability

New analyses of two states’ free college programs indicate that the widely praised programs fall short on making college affordable for lower-income and working-class students.

September 5, 2018

HBCUs

Benedict College’s Bold Move to Lower Tuition: Ask Us ‘Why Not?’

Nearly 150 years after its founding, with a bold approach to student success in the face of sociopolitical challenges, leadership at Benedict College continues to demonstrate a renewed commitment to providing access for students to become powers for good in society.

July 27, 2018

African-American

‘Aim Higher Act’ House Bill Draws Praise from Higher Ed Groups

The  Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) have announced support of the Aim Higher Act legislation introduced this week in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Democrat-crafted bill, a version of the Higher Education Act that is due for reauthorization, has some significant differences from the PROSPER […]

July 25, 2018

Students

Study: College Financial Aid Award Letters Lack Clarity, Transparency

Financial aid award letters from colleges often are so unclear or misleading that students and their families don’t get an accurate picture of the full cost of schooling and just how much money they will have to ante up on their own.

June 5, 2018

Students

Emory, 13 Others Bring List of American Talent Initiative Members to 100

The American Talent Initiative has pushed forward in its goal to enroll 50,000 more high-achieving, low- and moderate-income students at educational institutions by 2025. The list of member institutions has reached 100.

April 18, 2018

African-American

Direct Engagement With Trump, GOP Pays Off for HBCUs

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s decision not to resist – but instead engage in a strategic way and bipartisan fashion on behalf of our nearly 300,000 HBCU students who need a voice in Congress and with the Trump administration – has borne fruit at many levels.

April 8, 2018

HBCUs

HBCU Leaders Meeting with Business Leaders at GOP Event

WASHINGTON — The leaders of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities got major face time in front of some of America’s top companies, such as Google, Starbucks and Walmart, on Tuesday at this year’s HBCU Fly-In, sponsored by congressional Republicans. The HBCU Fly-In started last year as a way for the colleges and universities […]

February 28, 2018

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ATI Commits to Enroll and Support High-Achieving, Low- and Moderate-Income Students

Since its launch in December 2016, the American Talent Initiative (ATI), a Bloomberg Philanthropies effort led by the Aspen Institute’s College Excellence Program and Ithaka S+R, has grown from 30 to 86 member institutions

December 13, 2017