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This year’s investigation of social mobility
leaves us optimistic. Older graduates have
developed meaningful careers, earning
wages on par with the national average and
above their parents’ current earnings. While
only half of younger graduates get a full-time
job within six months, we are optimistic that
these younger cohorts will progress in their
professional development and follow in the
footsteps of the cohorts before them.
We will continue to survey our alumni yearly.
Our number of college graduates is expected
to double by 2020 to nearly 750 individuals,
spanning several regions in California,
Louisiana, Colorado, and Washington D.C. This
information equips us with a solid base from
which to learn more about the social mobility
and economic resiliency of first generation
college graduates in the 21 st century.
If you have any questions about this research
and findings please contact CRISTEL DE
ROUVRAY, Entrepreneur in Residence at
[email protected].
COLLEGE TRACK THANKS TWO
GRADUATE STUDENTS WHO
CONTRIBUTED TO THIS WORK:
ITZEL PEREZ
Public Policy at Mills College - for refining our
survey as part of her master’s thesis;
REBECCA GLEIT
PhD candidate, Education, Stanford
University - for designing the regression
analyses in Appendix B.
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