Episode 01: Closing the College Success Gap for Low-income Students

dotEDU: Higher Education Policy Explained · Aug 12, 2019 · 40m

In recent decades, low-income students have applied to and started attending college in greater numbers than ever before. But even as the college-attendance gap between rich and poor has shrunk, the gap in the number of college graduates has grown. How can we keep closing the first gap, and begin to address the second?

In this episode, Jim McCorkell talks about College Possible's flagship initiative—an intensive curriculum of coaching and support to help low-income students enroll in college—as well as the newer Catalyze Program, which supports student persistence and success directly on…