Expanding Access and Opportunity: The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program
Published Feb 2010
This successful scholarship program highlights how reducing financial burden among low-income, minority college students improves college completion and community engagement
This synthesis report, Expanding Access and Opportunity: The Impact of the Gates Millennium Scholars Program, extensively summarizes a successful “last dollar” scholarship program to show that reducing the financial burden of low-income, minority college students leads to enhanced persistence, college completion, and community engagement after college.