Read how regional public universities are amplifying postsecondary value by fostering greater access and affordability, supporting student success, and improving outcomes for today’s learners.
How is your institution supporting students from a range of life circumstances and educational pathways?
Arkansas State University System
This university system created a vigorous online program that mainly serves students balancing work, family, or other responsibilities, many of whom face barriers to attending in-person classes, particularly individuals who are seeking to transfer to a four-year institution and who live and work hours away from a university.
California State University, Dominguez Hills
This university’s program creates a welcoming campus culture that welcomes the growing number of returning students with some college, no degree who want to complete their coursework and earn their degrees.
California State University, Stanislaus
Through Project Rebound, Stanislaus State is helping to demonstrate how higher education can transform the lives of formerly incarcerated individuals so they can become productive and positive members of the community.
California State University, Stanislaus
Mounting evidence of how food, housing, and financial insecurities are impacting student graduation rates spurred this university into action. It created a program that responds to students’ basic needs, resulting in more students completing their degree journeys.
Central Connecticut State University
To address declining retention and graduation rates among students who face additional barriers to success in postsecondary education, this university offers an innovative peer-coaching initiative in which mentors address mentees’ unique challenges and support their academic and personal accomplishments.
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Central State University
After learning that declining reenrollment was linked to rising rates of academic probation and academic suspension, this university created a program that offers a success skills course, peer mentorship, and academic support to help students achieve good standing and complete their degree journeys.
Chicago State University
This university is investing in its surrounding community with a comprehensive program that supports and enriches students who face persistent barriers to college access, from dual-enrollment courses in high schools to holistic programs and scholarships in college to career placement in positions with sustainable wages upon graduation.
Colorado State University – Pueblo
To make higher education more accessible, this university partnered with area school districts to create centers that helped high school students who are the first in their families to attend college or come from communities historically facing barriers to higher education and increase enrollment in universities and college.
Colorado State University – Pueblo
To make college more affordable and expand opportunity across the workforce, this university awarded its work-study funds to students facing financial barriers to completing their degrees so they could participate in career placements tied to their majors and graduate.
Colorado State University – Pueblo
To remove financial barriers to higher education, this university laid the foundation for two programs that offer free tuition to students from low- and moderate-income families who face barriers to accessing higher educationstudents.
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