{"id":6672,"date":"2017-12-07T11:33:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2017-12-07T11:33:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:33:06","slug":"e-town-pledges-commitment-to-educate-more-high-achieving-low-income-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2017\/12\/07\/e-town-pledges-commitment-to-educate-more-high-achieving-low-income-students\/","title":{"rendered":"E-town pledges commitment to educate more high-achieving, low-income students"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Along with Yale University, Wake Forest University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Washington and Georgia Institute of Technology, Elizabethtown College announces a public commitment to educate more high-achieving, low-income students through the American Talent Initiative (ATI), an enterprise of Bloomberg Philanthropies.<\/p>\n

These six institutions aim to improve socioeconomic diversity by identifying talented students through better recruitment efforts, reaching out directly to the neediest families nationwide, removing cost as a barrier to access by increasing need-based aid to make attendance more affordable and retaining and graduating lower-income students at rates comparable to their higher-income peers.<\/p>\n

E-town\u2019s immediate goal is to increase the number of transfer students<\/a> by 400 percent, bringing the figure from 25 in 2017 to 100 by 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cElizabethtown College is proud to build on its long history of giving students from all backgrounds the opportunity to succeed in college and in their careers,\u201d said College President Carl Strikwerda. \u201cAs part of our partnership with ATI we will increase our recruitment of community college students who transfer to the College and graduate with degrees.\u201d<\/p>\n

E-town offers<\/a> a 13:1 student faculty ratio in more than 150 majors, minors and concentrations. Ninety-seven percent of students receive financial aid and 80 percent are awarded merit scholarships.<\/p>\n

Started in December 2016, ATI, which has grown its membership from 30 to 86 colleges and universities in under a year, works with institutions across the country that graduate at least 70 percent of their students in six years.<\/p>\n

As one of those colleges, Elizabethtown pledges to support these students socially, academically and financially, from before they arrive on campus until graduation and beyond.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica is the world\u2019s greatest meritocracy, but too often a parent\u2019s income still determines a child\u2019s likelihood of attending a great college,\u201d said Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies and three-term Mayor of New York City. \u201cThe American Talent Initiative is aimed at fixing that, and the program\u2019s momentum is building: More top schools are committing to enrolling more talented students from lower-income families and drawing up concrete action plans to make that happen. Their leadership sets a great example for others.\u201d<\/p>\n

David Leonhardt with the New York Times released a story on the initiative<\/a> this morning. Comment from Elizabethtown College was included in the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Along with Yale University, Wake Forest University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Washington and Georgia Institute of Technology, Elizabethtown College announces a public commitment to educate more high-achieving, low-income students through the American Talent Initiative (ATI), an enterprise of Bloomberg Philanthropies. These six institutions aim to improve socioeconomic diversity by identifying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":6673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-town-in-the-news","category-features","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6674,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions\/6674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}