Ten Colleges Receive $1-Million Each to Aid Low-Income Students
March 21, 2007
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, in Lansdowne, Va., plans to announce today that it will award $1-million apiece to 10 colleges to help high-achieving students from low-income families pursue higher education, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.
The grants will support colleges that place recent graduates in high schools with low college-attendance rates so they can help students get through the college-application process. It also offers counseling to community-college students planning to transfer to four-year institutions.
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