After announcing in 2012 it was closing its campus Colorado Technical University in Sioux Falls, SD, went mostly online; students say advisers use aggressive sales tactics to get students to enroll and the university pockets their federal aid.
Reaching struggling students before even they know they have a problem is key to "academic advocacy," an emerging high-touch advising model that prioritizes retention and completion.
Understanding the link between selectivity and racial inequity in college admissions is one of several key strategies in dismantling long-standing and system barriers to college access.
