Carnegie Corporation of New York Funds Primer to Guide Students on College Choices
The Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has released A Primer on the College Student Journey, a publication focused on the pathways that students of various backgrounds follow through the wide range of higher education options that they face.
In A Primer on the College Student Journey, the Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education calls attention to: (1) the disparities in educational attainment associated with race and ethnicity, income level, and gender; (2) the fact that more students are borrowing more money to pay for college; and (3) the fact that those students most likely to default are those who do not graduate.
At the same time—calling out areas of strength and accomplishment sometimes overshadowed by the afore-mentioned concerns—the primer acknowledges increasingly higher rates of college enrollment across diverse student populations, so that nearly 90 percent of high school graduates eventually spend some time in college...