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Access & Success Initiatives

Global Policy Fellows Program

IHEP Global Policy Fellows shared ideas, tools, and techniques to develop higher education policy models in their own countries.

Minority-Serving Institutions-Models of Success Program

The Lumina MSI-Models of Success program worked with more than 25 minority-serving institutions to improve and document increased post-secondary attainment.

Summer Academy

IHEP Summer Academies gathered college and university teams to create and refine comprehensive action plans for institutional change.

Symposium on Financial Literacy and College Success at Minority-Serving Institutions

The symposia brought together minority-serving institutions to help address student and institutional financial needs.

Walmart Minority Student Success Initiative

Thirty institutions were provided capacity-building grants to implement strategic practices to help first-generation students of color achieve academic success.

Pathways to College Network

IHEP directs and is a core member of the Pathways to College Network (PCN), an alliance of national partners working collaboratively to improve college access and success for underserved students.

Looking Back to Move Forward: A History of Federal Student Aid

This documentary series provides insight into the programs’ origins, milestones, and current issues as we ponder future direction and navigate foreseeable roadblocks to new policy innovation.

Project Win-Win

Sixty-one participating colleges (in nine states) joined forces to locate qualified students who never received an associate's degree and to award those degrees retroactively. This effort also identified former students who were no more than nine to 12 credits short of an associate’s degree and...

Redefining Access for the 21st-Century Student

This IHEP initiative reinvigorates the dialogue on college access in the U.S. to develop a roadmap for aligning research, policy, and practice. Be sure to view the initiative's feature documentary film and accompanying report.

Community Partnership for Attainment

Community Partnership for Attainment is a community mobilization initiative designed to dramatically increase the number of local residents with postsecondary credentials. 

Learn more and view IHEP’s tactical guidebooks here.

Policy Priorities

  • Affordability & Need-Based Aid
  • Data & Transparency
  • Degree Completion
  • Higher Education for Students Impacted by the Criminal Justice System

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