Innovative program evens the playing field for poor students
PBS NewsHour
Narrator PBS NewsHour
Publisher: NewsHour Productions
Summary
For Georgia State’s Tyler Mulvenna, a $900 grant from an innovative retention program let him live on campus, work less and do what he came to do: study. The school, worried about abysmal graduation rates for poor students found, a full course load, commuting and holding a job was just too much for many. The NewsHour's April Brown takes a look at the program praised by President Barack Obama.
Duration: 6 minutes (00:05:40) Publishing date: 2016-06-28; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —