Indiana University has joined more than 80 other institutions working toward a goal of enrolling 50,000 additional low- and moderate-income students in higher education by 2025. IU Bloomington Provost Lauren Robel announced the university was joining the American Talent Initiative in her State of the Campus address March 6. More details about what that means were recently released.
Recognizing that highly talented students who come from low- and moderate-income families are less likely to graduate from college than their higher-income peers, the American Talent Initiative aims to increase access to the 290 U.S. colleges and universities that consistently graduate at least 70 percent of their students in six years. The initiative’s member institutions, which include Ohio State University, Amherst College and Harvard University, are a subset of that 290.
The initiative has a goal of increasing the number of lower-income students attending those 290 colleges and universities from 470,000 to 520,000. IU doesn’t have its own numerical goal, at least not yet.
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