Dear Common Community,

Manfred Phillipp, our colleague from Lehman College, passed this piece along to us on the UFS LISTSERV.  The Education Trust, in a report issued yesterday, concluded that five colleges across the country “are doing a good job of serving low-income students”.  Two of the five are CUNY colleges:  Queens and Baruch.  The Chronicle of Higher Education summarized the report and commented that the data is a bit complex and that the researchers had established an “unusually high bar”.  Essentially three criteria were used:

1.  Four-year colleges had to cost no more than $4,600 a year after all grants for students in households earning up to $30,000 a year.

2.  The colleges also had to have at least a 50-percent six-year graduation rate.

3.  At least 30 percent of their enrollments had to be Pell Grant recipients.

We congratulate our  colleagues at Queens and Baruch.

Tony