Thursday, November 23, 2023

Universities Prepare to Launch 2-Year Colleges - Sara Weissman, Inside Higher Ed

The goal of the model, started at Loyola University, is to get low-income students to and through college with little to no debt. Butler University, a private institution in Indianapolis, and College of Mount Saint Vincent, a Catholic college in the Bronx borough of New York City, recently announced plans to launch two-year colleges on their campuses with intensive wraparound supports to serve local low-income students.The two institutions are doing so in partnership with the Come to Believe Network, an organization that helps colleges and universities adopt this model, which started at Loyola University, a Jesuit university in Chicago, eight years ago and is slowly growing in popularity.