Yes! It's called meeting your basic needs so you can flourish in a scholarship!

Great way to end the workweek - coffee with Sara Goldrick-Rab this morning and a zoom call with @Themessagellc this afternoon. Thank you both for all you do!

Enrollment support must include a completion strategy. Enrollment has gone up but grad rates have remained woefully low over the last 40 yrs! Bipartisan bill proposes $150 million grant program to boost Latino college enrollment edsource.org/?page_id=670228 via EdSource

Big miss! Assumes low-income students aren't academically prepared. Help address situational factors that are often the root cause of low academics. Instead, help meet students' basic needs so they can thrive. Agree or disagree? Lumen Learning Gates Foundation

Important reminder. 🧡

10 years and still trying to figure out if I like Twitter or not. In some ways it's great and in others, it's just a bunch of noise. Happy twitterversary to me ;) Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

Makes you hummm?

A step in the right direction insidehighered.com/news/2022/04/2…

Declining FAFSA completion...canary in the coal mine for declining enrollment or call to action to rethink our higher education business model to meet students where they are at? Great insights from Bill DeBaun at National College Attainment Network (NCAN) Forbes forbes.com/sites/emmawhit…

So much more inspirational than Carrol O'Connor and @robreiner arguing with each other. All in the Family insidehighered.com/news/2022/05/0…

"While enrollment in higher edu overall fell 2.5% in the fall, or by more than 461k students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than 7X as steep as the decline among women, according to an analysis of figures from the National Student Clearinghouse.

❤️ this⬇️ insidehighered.com/news/2022/05/1…

Congratulations freddyshegog!

Male, Black and Latino high school students may not be college-bound insidehighered.com/admissions/art…

The average starting salary is projected to top $50,000! npr.org/2022/05/05/109…

Before Uvalde school shooting, Mexican-Americans fought for decades to improve school system elpasotimes.com/story/news/202…

Great overview of the impact of community schools - take a listen edsource.org/podcast/how-co… EdSource

I say...YES! chronicle.com/article/would-…

Yet another compelling reason we need to act now to overhaul the cost, and therefore, the impact of higher education financing for low and middle-class families.

Servant leadership!