Every year, hundreds of thousands of students in community colleges have plans to transfer to a four-year institution and complete their bachelor’s degree. Just 31 percent will cross that finish line. 

A new report from the Campaign for College Opportunity examines today's community college-to-university transfer pathway, gaps in transfer student experiences, and the ways colleges and policy leaders can remove barriers to promote equitable access to a bachelor’s degree and beyond.

Only 5.7 percent of U.S. physicians are Black; 6.9 percent are Latino or Hispanic. Those numbers are taking on heightened significance following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to end affirmative action practices in college admissions at all public institutions in the United States.

Medical schools across the country are now scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. Some are ramping up outreach efforts to applicants, employing dedicated pathway programs, and creating partnerships, curriculum, and programs specifically built to serve underserved populations.

In 2015, when it was time for Kimara Shields’ daughter to decide what to do after high school, Shields didn’t hesitate: The teenager would go to college.

Like many working-class couples across the country, Shields and her husband had incomes to cover the basic needs of their household but little else. Yet the aid their daughter received covered only a snippet of the full cost of attendance at Stevenson University. One of them would have to go into debt to afford the rest.