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Want to talk with university presidents and policymakers about how to make college more accessible and affordable for low- and middle-income students? Here’s your chance!
The Roosevelt Institution is sponsoring a conference that brings together students and national leaders to discuss the issues surrounding socioeconomic diversity in higher education.
The timing could not be better for this conference. Admissions, rising tuition costs, financial aid policies and their effect on the accessibility and affordability of higher education are receiving attention in ways they never have before. Yet low-income students still attend selective colleges and universities at much lower rates than their peers. And the disparity is growing. We hope this conference will help university administrators make more informed decisions when addressing socioeconomic diversity at their institutions.
Registration is now open for all undergraduate and graduate students! Spots are filling up rapidly, so don’t wait to add your name to the list.
Travel assistance is available, so there’s no excuse to miss out on this opportunity to talk face-to-face with national leaders like William Bowen, former president of Princeton and the Mellon Foundation, Congressman Chaka Fattah, and university administrators from selective colleges and universities across the country.
This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of higher education. Sign up now!
Got questions? E-mail edconference@rooseveltinstitution.org
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Speaker Highlights
William Bowen
President Emeritus of the Mellon Foundation, author of Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education
Anthony Marx
President of Amherst College
Matthew Schwieger
Stanford '08 Fellow and Former Research Assistant at the Century Foundation
Richard Levin
President of Yale University
Chaka Fattah
Congressman for the 2nd District of Pennsylvania
Tiffany Meertins
University of Virginia Curry School of Education student and College Guide
Richard Kahlenberg
Senior Fellow of the Century Foundation, author of The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action and editor of America’s Untapped Resource: Low-Income Students in Higher Education
Claire Rann
Amherst '08 Fellow and Telementor
Jerome Karabel
Author of The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
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