Paul Quinn College hopes the new practice will better combat intergenerational poverty and remove the pressure on first-generation college students to financially lift up their entire families.
Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell on campus. The school is reimagining its admissions policy to allow qualifying accepted students to choose two family members or friends to enroll with them.High school senior Ke'shawn Rubell thought he was just visiting Paul Quinn College on Thursday.
If a student is accepted with at least a 3.0 grade-point average and qualifies for federal financial aid, they can also choose two family members or friends to enroll with them.The goal is to take the pressure and responsibility to change the course of a family’s financial situation off of just the first-generation college student and increase the odds of success when a family can witness each other working toward a certificate or degree.
"My mother was working job to job, and my brother, he was in and out of jail, so it was just me going to school," Rubell said."That took a big toll on me. It changed my mindset mentally, knowing that I need to make a change." “He's recognizing that you can take a student and get them more education,” she said of Sorrell. “But if the family doesn't have resources, there is a pull towards home that can bring them down.”
Across the country, private colleges and universities — which rely heavily on tuition and fees to balance their budgets — have struggled with enrollment declines made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to data from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Paul Quinn’s enrollment dropped from 554 students in the fall of 2019 to just 385 this past fall.
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