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Whitmire: Nonprofit, Smart College Advising Groups Quickly Moved Online During COVID-19 — a Very Good Thing for Low-Income, First-Generation Students

Since Syracuse University graduate Ruby Collado, a College Advising Corps member, began working with students at Frederick Douglass Academy II in Harlem, college enrollment rose by 30 percent and more than 70 percent of graduates left for four-year colleges. (College Advising Corps)
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Richard Whitmire is the author of several books, most recently “The B.A. Breakthrough: How Ending Diploma Disparities Can Change the Face of America.” Whitmire is a member of the Journalism Advisory Board of The 74.

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