Many transformative practices that University of Maryland College of Education researchers, including College Park Scholars' coordinator for student engagement Dr. Ashley Ogwo, have uncovered in a study of how higher education institutions are facilitating success for their Black, Latine, Indigenous and low-income students.
Led by Co-principal Investigators Sharon Fries-Britt ’81, Ph.D. ’94, Distinguished University Professor, and Bridget Turner Kelly M.A. ’96, Ph.D. ’01, associate professor of student affairs, Ogwo and the rest of the team interviewed 70 students and 36 faculty, administrators and senior leaders at six higher education institutions, including four-year universities and two-year colleges in rural and urban communities nationwide.