More than 400 colleges and universities still have openings, financial aid, and housing available to qualified freshman and/or transfer students for the Fall 2019 semester, according to NACAC’s 32nd Annual College Openings Update.
Both public and private colleges and universities are included on the list.
Continue reading Spots Still Available for Students at More Than 400 Colleges
The school year is almost over and motivation for many high school seniors is quite low.
Commonly known as “senioritis,” this is the time after college acceptances arrive and high school seniors start to feel like school isn’t important.
Senioritis often has a negative connotation. But past #NACACreads author Ned Johnson thinks the term and the feeling need a rebrand.
Continue reading The New ‘Senioritis’: Finding Your Motivation
Former First Lady Michelle Obama celebrated student success at Reach Higher’s fifth annual College Signing Day event Wednesday.
“I want you all to know, personally, you are about to make the best investment that you can possibly make. And that’s true whether you are going to a trade school or to the military or to a community college or to a four-year university,” Obama said to loud cheers.
Continue reading Michelle Obama Celebrates College Signing Day in LA
For non-native English speakers, figuring out the college admission process often has an additional layer of challenges.
Robbie Cupps, a college and career counselor at Capital High School (ID), works in the Boise School District, which has a significant population of Spanish-speaking students.
Working with these students, she knew she had to take a different approach and a grant from the NACAC Imagine Fund helped make it possible.
Continue reading Imagine Grant Supports College Admission Program for Non-Native English Speakers
Higher education is often a pathway to finding a job, owning a home, and earning higher wages throughout a person’s lifetime.
But access to higher education for the nation’s prison population has faced significant challenges over the past few decades.
A new bipartisan bill making its way through Congress would restore Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated individuals, giving many the ability to pay for higher education and workforce training.
Continue reading Bipartisan Bill Supports College Access for the Incarcerated
The statistics on college acceptance rates don’t lie. They also don’t come as a surprise to people working in the college admission profession.
Although media coverage and parent perceptions can make it seem as though a handful of selective universities are the norm, most US colleges and universities admit a majority of students who apply.
NACAC’s State of College Admission report has proclaimed this for years, but a new study from Pew Research Center is backing it up and pushing its findings into the mainstream.
The losses of the Great Recession continue to haunt higher education. Despite five years of increases, state funding for higher education has only halfway reached pre-recession levels of funding. And as of 2017, public institutions in more than half of all US states are more reliant on tuition dollars than on public appropriations.
Continue reading Report: State Funding for Higher Ed Only Halfway Recovered from the Great Recession
The college admission process is complex and the fight for equity and access within it is far from over.
Enoch Jemmott, now a senior at Queens College (NY), recently shared his experience as a low-income student navigating the college admission process in a The New York Times piece titled, “The Implicit Punishment of Daring to Go to College When Poor.”
“I came to realize that, in every step along the way, we had to do more because we had less,” Jemmott wrote.
Continue reading Perspective: College Admission Leaves Low-Income Students Behind
Instagram is the new Facebook for college-bound students.
Facebook was originally designed to connect college students. The social network’s audience now skews older, but that doesn’t mean new students aren’t still connecting online before they even get to campus.
Accepted students are now starting Instagram accounts for their class. A new crop of Class of 2023 accounts has just popped up on Instagram and admitted and prospective students are using them to make their final decisions, pick a roommate, and connect before classes begin in the fall.
Continue reading Instagram Accounts for Admitted Students Influence Decisions
Public research universities often aren’t putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to student recruitment.
A new report from The Joyce Foundation found that most public research universities prioritize recruiting out-of-state students and were less likely to visit schools in low-income areas.
The report analyzed recruiting visits to local high schools made by admission staff at 15 public research universities in the US.
