{"id":2131,"date":"2018-05-29T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2018-05-29T07:57:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:57:49","slug":"report-cost-puts-many-public-4-year-institutions-out-of-reach-for-low-income-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/05\/29\/report-cost-puts-many-public-4-year-institutions-out-of-reach-for-low-income-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Cost Puts Many Public 4-Year Institutions Out of Reach for Low-Income Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2132\" style=\"width: 713px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2132\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/studentoncampus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"713\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/studentoncampus.jpg 713w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/studentoncampus-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Have low-income students been effectively shut out of public four-year institutions of higher education?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegeaccess.org\/affordability\">A new report<\/a> by the National College Access Network (NCAN) examines this question and the results aren\u2019t pretty.<\/p>\n<p>Only 25 percent of residential public four-year institutions meet NCAN\u2019s measure of affordability, data show.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>NCAN compared the cost of attendance at an institution with students\u2019 average total grant aid from federal, state, and institutional resources; the institution\u2019s average federal loan amount; the average Pell Grant recipient\u2019s expected family contribution; and an estimate of students\u2019 earnings from part-time work during the school year and full-time summer work.<\/p>\n<p>Using this metric, students could not afford to attend 412 out of the 551 residential public four-year institutions in the US and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started in this work in 2004, I could confidently say that if we did our jobs right and our students did their work as well, then paying for college wasn\u2019t a barrier to their success,\u201d Traci Kirtley, a NACAC member and chief program officer at College Possible, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegeaccess.org\/affordability\">told NCAN.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s no longer true today. Even if students do everything right, many in 2018 are finding that they still can\u2019t afford to pursue a college degree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegeaccess.org\/affordability\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:adobson@nacacnet.org\"><em>adobson@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have low-income students been effectively shut out of public four-year institutions of higher education? A new report by the National College Access Network (NCAN) examines this question and the results aren\u2019t pretty. Only 25 percent of residential public four-year institutions meet NCAN\u2019s measure of affordability, data show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-yn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}