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By John Coleman
It’s Black History Month.
From our earliest days on this continent, Black people, enslaved or ‘free’, have valued learning, education, knowledge and skill. They have had to overcome barriers in this country which measures everything. There was need for ways to assess ‘success’ for academic institutions and their ‘products’.
The February 2, 2022, UCRiverside Magazine reported that “Third Wave”, a non-profit educational think tank, created a new measure of educational excellence which ranks UCR 18th in the nation. Their instrument, The”Economic Mobility Index” (EMI) examines which schools enroll the highest proportion of students from low and moderate income backgrounds, providing (the schools) the strongest returns for their investments.
Third wave also applied their “Price to Earning Premium” (PEP) metric which measures how long it takes (those) students to recoup their education costs.
There are several well-established publications which offer US college and university ranking systems. The U.S. News & World Report., U.S. News for the third consecutive year has named UCR as the country’s ‘number one’ university for social mobility.
The Washington Monthly magazine named UCR ‘number one’ in the nation for Pell Grant performance.
UCR granted the second-most Pell Grants in the country to its students. The Princeton Review named UCR as among the top 25 public universities in America.
CONGRATULATIONS, UC Riverside! CONGRATULATIONS, UCR Third World Students and Others
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