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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 
 

In This Issue
 ·Diversity linked to campus success 
 ·An immigrant prepped for the classics
 ·Surveying best practices at community colleges

 
 

ACADEMIC STANDARDS
Diversity's dramatic impact
Academic standards have surged as a Midwest university has invested in attracting more minority students and minority faculty and staff.  More ...

STUDENT PROFILE
Prep for Prep:  changing lives
Fourteen years ago Dan-el Padilla Peralta moved to America from the Dominican Republic.  Now, he's a prize-winning student at Princeton, studying the classics. He credits Prep for Prep with his success. More...

STUDENT SUCCESS
The College Track
The College Track is planned as a three-part documentary television series that will present the stories of students, parents, teachers and community organizations that are expanding our notion of who is "college material." In conjunction with the PBS broadcast, local organizations committed to improving college access will participate in a national outreach campaign.  More...

KNOWLEDGE CENTER
National benchmarks for best practices
Results from the first Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) are helping institutions better serve their students' needs. Examine the key findings and learn more...

BEST PRACTICES 
Award-winning community colleges
Four community colleges have been named as recipients of the MetLife Foundation Best-Practice College Awards for 2003-2004. Selections were based on the institutions' performance on the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) retention index. More...

STATE OF THE UNION
Bush seeks federal support for community colleges
President Bush proposed a community college and job-training initiative in his State of the Union address. More.  At the same time, The National Center on Public Policy and Higher Education released a report that calls on governors and legislators to adopt emergency measures to make postsecondary access and affordability a top priority.  Read the report.

DATA: ENROLLMENT
NCES reports on student characteristics
Nearly 63 percent of undergraduate college students are traditional aged (between the ages of 18 and 24 years), and 70 percent received financial assistance during the 2000-2001 academic year, according to a recent National Center for Education Statistics report.  More...
 

 

Postsecondary access and success: publications, guides and resources 

Plugging the leaks: Institutional responsibility for incoming college students
A survey of more than 1,000 Americans finds that most people believe the nation's high schools need improvement and that better coordination between high schools and colleges is necessary to help students make a successful transition to college. Read Leaks in the Postsecondary Pipeline: A Survey of Americans.

Report says college access needs protection
Responding to the Crisis in College Opportunity, a report released last week by The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, calls on governors and legislators to adopt emergency measures to stem the crisis in college opportunity. More...

Public Agenda on higher education
Public Agenda provides a concise digest on higher education issues. Public Agenda is a nonpartisan opinion research organization helping Americans explore and understand critical issues.  More...

Higher education resources
Lumina Foundation provides links to higher education resources for policy-makers.  More...

In the interest of encouraging discourse about postsecondary access and success, this newsletter links to high-quality publications that do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation or its Board of Directors.  In some cases, the Foundation may have funded publications and resources to which we link.


Helping People Achieve Their Potential
 

College Goal Sunday expands
College Goal SundaySM has helped tens of thousands of low-income students and families clear the paperwork hurdle when applying for college financial aid.  Now it is expanding to 10 additional states.  More...

College access grants announced
Lumina Foundation for Education supports college-access programs for underserved students nationwide through the McCabe Fund.
More...

Grants encourage student success
About 60 percent of students at public institutions fail to complete degrees within five years; half of these students leave college during or just after their freshman year.  More...

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