Daniella Cheslow
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first heard Aug 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Colleges Slip on Pledge to Enroll Lower-Income Students · 16 Sep 2022
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The Wall Street Journal's Melissa Korn has been looking into the numbers.
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That's coming up after the break.
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Back in 2016, U.S.
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colleges and universities signed onto the American Talent Initiative.
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It's a campaign with backers including Bloomberg and the Aspen Institute that aims to increase the number of lower-income students who enroll in high-performing schools.
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The goal is 50,000 more students within a decade.
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More than 125 schools signed the pledge, but
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A recent progress report shows the schools are running behind.
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They've added fewer than 8,000 lower-income students since the initiative began.
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Melissa Korn covers higher education for The Wall Street Journal.
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She's here now to explore why colleges are not hitting the targets they set.
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Hi, Melissa.
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Hi there.
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One of the key metrics in this study is Pell Grants.
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What is a Pell Grant and who benefits from them?
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This figure of fewer than 8,000 lower income students on a pledge of 50,000, that is a quite striking figure.
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Where do you see in particular the numbers not bearing out the intentions of the pledge?
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Among the schools that are trying to recruit lower income students, you reported on one, Colby College in Maine, that doubled its enrollment of Pell students between 2015 and 2021.
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What tactics did they use?
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And more broadly, what tactics have you seen as successful?
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