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Systemic barriers to college for low-income and nontraditional students
Last week, the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education of the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) and the University of Pennsylvania Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy (PennAHEAD) released “Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States: 2021 Historical Trend Report.”
The statistics in the Indicators report reveal that nontraditional students have many risk factors and financial barriers to navigate to successfully complete their educational goals. Statistics on nontraditional students include a large number of college success risk factors, with 80% percent of independent students enrolled part-time; 43% have dependent children, and 28% are single parents, while 41% work full time and 54% have delayed enrollment.
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