At the most competitive colleges, the percentage of college students that come from the lower 50 percent of families by income is only 14%. See this recent NYTimes article, Efforts to Recruit Poor Students Lag at some Elite Colleges, on the challenges for both poor families and for the colleges.
Callie House was born in 1861 as an enslaved person in Tennessee. She was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. She married at age 22 and went on to have six...
A fourth grade geography textbook with pictures of Africa helped set the course for Janice McLaughlin’s life. She sensed that Africa would become her life’s passion. She joined the Maryknoll...
Rebecca Ketcher was three years old when soldiers rounded up her entire family and forced them to abandon their family home. Her father wanted to put up a fight, but...
