The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 11, 2016: Foundation Urges Admissions Offices to Create a ‘Poverty Preference’
“To increase the socioeconomic diversity of their campuses, selective colleges should create a ‘poverty preference’ for high-achieving low-income applicants, a new report says. The report, released on Monday by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, urges institutions to make the admissions process more equitable.”