Colleges Need to Do More to Support Poor Students [PSMag.com]

Samantha Sangenito 4/1/164:00 AM

Colleges should be doing more to recruit low-income students and to support them as they work to finish their degrees, says a new report released by the Department of Education.

The report also shines a light on the successes some colleges have had in promoting greater access to low-income students and increasing graduation rates.

"Many colleges and universities have taken important steps to make college a reality for low income students, but unfortunately today those success stories are the exception—they ought to be the rule," said Education Secretary John B. King in a press briefing. "There are far too many barriers preventing far too many low-income students from enrolling in and graduating from college."

[For more of this story, written by Annie Waldman, go to http://www.psmag.com/business-...upport-poor-students]

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