Early Promise: Mentoring Students and Providing Incentives

Increase college enrollments and graduation rates by making an early promise to students to cover their costs of attending college, providing them with mentoring and counseling services in college, and creating incentives for colleges to enroll and graduate “First Generation” students. 

  • Create a voluntary “Opportunity and Responsibility” curriculum to acquaint middle and high school students with the benefits of a higher education.
  • Use matching Federal grants to encourage public/private “Promise Partnerships” to support and mentor students who are the first in their family to attend college.
  • Create incentives from both federal and state government for colleges to enroll and graduate students who are the first in their family to attend college.  
  • Redirect current state and federal higher education expenditures to pay for some of these programs; use a performance grant approach at the federal level for the others.  

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Our goal is to make higher education a possibility for every American, without regard to their financial circumstances.

We have a lot to do and not much time to do it, so your support is critical for our campaign to succeed. It’s with your investment that we can fundamentally reform how higher education is financed in this country, opening the doors to a more equitable society.

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