Undocumented students in Colorado are now eligible for state financial aid.
Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law this spring approving the change. The new policy builds on prior legislation that extended in-state tuition rates to undocumented students.
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Inequities in opportunity begin far before college, according to a recent report.
In fact, the social class a child is born into is a better predictor than academic test scores when it comes to calculating future earning power, research from Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce shows.
Continue reading Report: Social Class—Not Smarts—Is A Better Predictor of Academic Success
Are our colleges and universities ready for the increasingly diverse student bodies they try to recruit?
Join us on Sept. 17 when we’ll address that question and more during a #NACACreads discussion with Anthony Abraham Jack, author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students. The hour-long chat will kick off on Twitter at 9 p.m. ET.
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Officials at the US Department of Education are urging incoming college freshmen to stay on track this summer.
A recent post on the department’s Homeroom blog notes that up to one-third of high school grads admitted to higher ed institutions fail to show up in the fall.
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High schools and colleges continue to develop and refine their strategies for recruiting abroad, according to new findings from the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC).
In particular, the association’s latest research brief shows that over the last two years more colleges have adopted practices that provide greater oversight of commissioned-based agents.
Continue reading ICYMI: NACAC Releases International Research Brief
Cinder block walls, bunk beds, and shared bathrooms: Undergrads may like to complain about their on-campus accommodations, but new research suggests that living in a traditional dormitory may help freshmen keep their grades up.
A study published this summer in the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice found that first-year students in traditional dorm rooms had higher GPAs than those living in on-campus apartment-style housing.
Continue reading Study: Traditional On-Campus Housing Offers Academic Benefits
The needs of Native American students are too often overlooked in all phases of higher education— including the admission process, according to a recent research project from the American Indian College Fund.
“(I)nvisibility is in essence the modern form of racism used against Native Americans…when a student is invisible, his or her academic needs are not met,” according to a recent executive brief produced by the College Fund, the largest US charity supporting Native student access to higher education.
As a result, many Native students are dissuaded from considering postsecondary education. And when American Indian students do try to access higher ed, they often are left feeling unwelcome and alone. Sometimes, they are even the target of hostility, as was the case in May 2018 when two brothers from the Mohawk Nation were removed from a Colorado State University campus tour after a mother on the tour became suspicious of their motives.
Inspired to create change in response to that traumatic event, the College Fund crafted a Declaration of Native Purpose in Higher Education.
Continue reading Guide Helps Ensure Access, Success, and Visibility for Native Students
A new episode of NACAC’s College Admissions Decoded podcast is now available.
“Counseling Applicants and Families Amidst a Scandal” explores the messages unintentionally sent by the Varsity Blues bribery scandal. It also looks at ways to assuage the worries students have about getting into college.
Continue reading Now Available: New Episode of ‘College Admissions Decoded’