Creating College Opportunity for All: Prepared Students and Affordable Colleges

By Joan Lord and Joseph L. Marks

SREB’s Challenge to Lead goals call on states to ensure that many more youth — particularly from minority groups and low-income families — prepare for, enroll in and graduate from college. This means that college must be affordable for these students. This report, a part of the Challenge to Lead education goals series, examines the current affordability gap and what steps could make college a possibility for more young people. It focuses on the need for state-funded financial assistance and ways that states can help prepare a new generation of residents for the future.

Keywords: budget, Goals, Scholarship, Grant, College preparation, Financial aid, Tuition, Pell Grant, Funding


Goal that it reflects: The percentage of adults who earn postsecondary degrees or technical certificates exceeds national averages.

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Catalog information: (05E02); 22 pages; 2005; $5 each
 

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