An Analysis of Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools
Many funders want to ensure college access for disadvantaged and first-generation college students, but fewer focus on ensuring such access to the nation’s top institutions of higher education.
Of course, there's been lots of talk about exactly this challenge: How to open up the doors to elite schools that, by some measures, have done a terrible job of ensuring they are ladders of upward mobility—especially for an economically diverse student body. Why does this matter?
So we were interested to learn of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ support for the American Talent Initiative (ATI), which announced this month a venture to expand the number of high-achieving low- and moderate-income students in the nation’s most prestigious public and private colleges by 50,000 by the year 2025...