Momentum builds as 108 U.S. colleges and universities join forces to improve opportunity.
The , a nationwide alliance comprising ϳԹվ College and more than 100 other leading colleges and universities, has made significant progress in improving opportunity for low- and moderate-income students, according to a new report.
Together, members of the American Talent Initiative have increased enrollment of students who receive federal Pell grants by 7,291 since the 2016-17 school year, achieving 15 percent of the initiative’s overall goal.
This momentum, highlighted in released today, indicates that ATI is on track to reach its goal to make to make our nation’s top colleges more accessible for 50,000 additional lower-income students by 2025.
ϳԹվ College joined ATI in 2017 and worked to enhance its own efforts to recruit, enroll, and support lower-income students.
“We are committed making higher education accessible,” said ϳԹվ College President Clayton Rose.
“We’re proud to be part of the effort with American Talent Initiative and the other schools that share ϳԹվ’s goal of enrolling amazing students regardless of their economic circumstances and to helping them to thrive as students here.”
The Wall Street Journal covers the impact report in the article, “” (December 17, 2018).
