NATIONAL COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK

NCAN NCAN is dedicated to improving the quality and quantity of support that underrepresented students receive to apply to, enter, and succeed in postsecondary education. Today, students of color, low-income students, and those who are the first in their families to attend college experience disproportionately lower rates of postsecondary success. For example, the odds of a high-income student enrolling in postsecondary education directly after high school are more than 3 times higher than those... of a low-income student. Fortunately, this inequitable outcome isn’t inevitable. When students receive specialized early awareness information, pre-college advising on admissions and financial aid, and mentoring, college entrance and completion rates rise dramatically.  Students served by NCAN members regularly outperform other low-income students in enrolling in and graduating from postsecondary education and in many cases close the graduation gap with higher-income students. NCAN  members  touch the lives of more than 2 million students and families each year and span a broad range of the education, nonprofit, government, and civic sectors. NCAN provides member organizations with professional development, networking, benchmarking, tools, and news from the field so they can deliver college access and success services more effectively and to more students. NCAN also advocates at the national level for  policies to improve access and success for all students.is to build, strengthen, and empower communities committed to college access and success so that all students, especially those underrepresented in postsecondary education, can achieve their educational dreams through a two- or four-year degree or high-quality certificate program.More