Officials at many leading private colleges and universities say they are working harder than they ever have before to seek out, recruit, enroll and support high-achieving, low-income students. By TeresaWatanabe :
The nationwide admissions scandal has institutions like Claremont McKenna worried that their gains in inclusiveness will be overshadowed. , Matt McGann has followed the news with more than casual concern.
“It’s disheartening,” McGann said. “No one in admissions likes to see this kind of gaming. It erodes the public trust in the work we do.” Julian Hernandez, the son of Mexican immigrants with limited education and modest means, could have attended UCLA. But he chose Claremont McKenna, a small, private liberal arts institution in the Pomona Valley that offered to cover most of the $74,000 annual cost of attendance with financial aid. He will graduate in May with about $14,000 in student loan debt — well below the $20,000 average for UC students, whose college costs are half as much.
The college already boasts an $835-million endowment but in the last five years has raised nearly $300 million more for financial aid. A $25-million gift last year from the Kravis Opportunity Fund covers non-tuition expenses, such as healthcare fees, clothing for job interviews, computers and a stipend that averages $4,500 for summer internships. To help middle-class families, CMC now takes home equity out of financial aid calculations.
Many top universities began tackling economic diversity as the next frontier for access in the early 2000s, said Richard Kahlenberg, a senior associate at The Century Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank. Their efforts were propelled by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 decision upholding race-based affirmative action. During the same period, he said, scholars began focusing on the lack of such diversity in elite higher education, leading to some “guilt.
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