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Week aims to celebrate contributions of first-generation, low-income students

Theresa Olohan | Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Notre Dame’s Office of Student Enrichment seeks to address inequalities on campus with its first annual First Generation and Low Income Student Week. Assistant director of student enrichment Robyn Centilli said the week is intended to raise awareness of first-generation and low-income students’ circumstances, hopefully promoting campus dialogue about the unique challenges these students often

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ND low-income students reflect on admission experience

Serena Zacharias | Friday, April 26, 2019

While the recent college admissions scandal — permeating national news and implicating many well-known celebrities — has sparked outrage among Americans, it has also highlighted unfair advantages wealthy students gained in the college admissions process, especially to highly ranked universities. In recent years, many colleges and universities have committed to enrolling more low-income students by increasing the number of Pell

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Saint Mary’s community discusses financial cost of education at the College

Gina Twardosz and Jordan Cockrum | Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Editor’s note: This is the final part in a series exploring the experiences of low socioeconomic students at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. The financial burden of a private school education is something students often spend many hours thinking about, and the students at Saint Mary’s are no different. Therese Pingel said she eagerly began

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Student, administrators reflect on Notre Dame’s financial accessibility

Megan Valley | Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Editor’s note: This is the second part in a series exploring the experiences of low socioeconomic students at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. When sophomore Eric Kim was ranking colleges for his QuestBridge application, he added Notre Dame because he applied to “any school that had a business program.” It wasn’t until after he was

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Support low-income students at Notre Dame

Fr. Joe Corpora | Thursday, November 20, 2014

It all began with a phone call in my office from the Business Manager of Alliance for Catholic Education. She asked me, “Do you know such and such a student?” I told her I did not. She said, “This student has a work study job in ACE and he asked me to write a letter