{"id":5105,"date":"2023-09-27T10:59:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T10:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college-track.test\/?post_type=press&#038;p=5105"},"modified":"2026-06-13T03:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:50:38","slug":"college-track-partners-with-14-institutions-of-higher-education-in-significant-push-to-increase-opportunity-for-first-generation-college-students","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/collegetrack.org\/es\/articles\/college-track-partners-with-14-institutions-of-higher-education-in-significant-push-to-increase-opportunity-for-first-generation-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"College Track Partners with 14 Institutions of Higher Education in Significant Push  to Increase Opportunity for First-Generation College Students"},"template":"","community_tax":[],"article_type":[142],"partner":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-5105","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-press-releases-and-statements"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":5106,"authors":null,"abstract":"","helper_taxonomies":{"article_type":[142],"community_tax":false,"partner":false,"program":false,"role":false,"region":false}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-5106 alignleft\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/College-Track-Scholars-Participates-in-Summer-Internship-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agreements emphasize and elevate the wealth of talent that exists within underserved and underestimated communities.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b>OAKLAND (Sept. 27):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Cohort admissions models, innovative programs, and a diverse range of campuses define the 14 college and university partnerships announced today by College Track, the nation\u2019s most comprehensive college access and success organization.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Founded in East Palo Alto, CA, in 1997, College Track equips students to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree in pursuit of a life of opportunity, choice, purpose, and power. College Track makes a 10-year commitment to each of its scholars, starting in high school and lasting through the launch of their careers.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the past year, College Track has executed a strategic effort to identify and ally with institutions of higher education that share a substantive commitment to educational equity. Partnership agreements have primarily centered around the establishment of pathways for cohorts of College Track scholars to matriculate to each institution, with ample financial supports. Select agreements have leveraged an institution\u2019s existing strengths alongside College Track\u2019s 10-year holistic, integrated program. Today\u2019s announcement represents all formal college and university partnerships that College Track has established at the outset of the 2023-24 academic year.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">College Track\u2019s cohort of 14 partner institutions are:<\/span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American University<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arizona State University<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bowie State University<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colorado State University, Fort Collins<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colorado State University, Pueblo<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colorado State University Global<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lycoming College<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Middlebury College<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Northern Arizona University<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paul Quinn College<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Mary\u2019s College of Maryland<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trinity College<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tulane University<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of California, Merced<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Key features of the partnerships include:<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b>Cohort models<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Understanding that a student\u2019s success in college is tied to their sense of belonging on campus, each of these agreements provide for the admission and significant financial aid funding of cohorts of College Track scholars, ranging from 5 to 25 students per cohort. Indicating the level of importance, cabinet-level administrators at each institution directly partner with College Track to ensure each cohort\u2019s success.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b>Innovative programs.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Embedded in a handful of partnerships is the creation of new opportunities that leverage institutional strengths. Examples are found in College Track\u2019s agreements with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/collegetrack.org\/es\/press\/northern-arizona-university-and-college-track-announce-innovative-partnership-to-increase-educational-equity\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Northern Arizona University<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/collegetrack.org\/es\/press\/asu-and-college-track-co-design-curriculum-to-bridge-education-and-opportunity-gaps-for-first-gen-students\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arizona State University<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The former resulting in \u201cSemester Zero,\u201d an immersive, college preparatory summer experience on NAU\u2019s Flagstaff Mountain Campus. The latter providing College Track scholars with access to ASU\u2019s Universal Learner Courses (11th and 12th grade high school students) and Professional Skills For Everyone Series (all college scholars).<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhile cohort admissions models help achieve a critical mass of first-generation students on campuses, unless those numbers are matched by an institutional commitment to educational equity, real change will never occur,\u201d said President and CEO Shirley M. Collado, Ph.D. \u201cThat\u2019s why this moment is so important. This group of colleges and universities\u2013regardless of location or student population traditionally served\u2013is stepping forward as a cohort in and of itself, speaking to a growing movement within the higher education sector that understands the necessity of scholars such as ours in their classrooms and in their communities. This movement will do nothing but grow, fostered by cross-sector partnerships like these to serve our shared goal of educational equity.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPaul Quinn\u2019s goal is to be the place that advances the work of eradicating intergenerational poverty. We all know that earning a bachelor\u2019s degree is a lever to economic mobility for the individual and their family,\u201d said Dr. Michael J. Sorrell, president of Paul Quinn College and member of the College Track Board of Directors. \u201cBy joining this cohort of 14 colleges and universities in partnership with College Track, we not only move closer to our goal, but we do so in community with institutions that share our values on this topic and an organization that we are always proud to call a partner and a friend.\u201d<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<b>Acerca de College Track\r\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">College Track\u2019s mission is to democratize potential by equipping students confronting systemic barriers to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree in pursuit of a life of opportunity, choice, purpose, and power. Today, more than 4,000 College Track high school and college scholars from underserved communities in California, Colorado, Louisiana, and the D.C. Metro Area are moving toward their goal to become the first in their family to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree. Across the nation, our 1,100 alumni embody a vision of equity rooted in possibility and progress. Ninety percent of our scholars are first-generation college students, and 84 percent are from underserved communities. They earn their bachelor\u2019s degrees at more than two and a half times the rate of their first-generation peers.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b>Media contact: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christy Johnson, <\/span><a href=\"mailto:crjohnson@collegetrack.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">crjohnson@collegetrack.org<\/span><\/a>","":null,"drop_cap":false,"helper_width":""}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>College Track Partners with 14 Institutions of Higher Education in Significant Push to Increase Opportunity for First-Generation College Students - College Track<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/collegetrack.org\/es\/articles\/college-track-partners-with-14-institutions-of-higher-education-in-significant-push-to-increase-opportunity-for-first-generation-college-students\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"College Track Partners with 14 Institutions of Higher Education in Significant Push to Increase Opportunity for First-Generation College Students - 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