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In terms of college knowledge, many minority students do not have access to social capital because of the lack of resources catered to them to ensure their success. There also is a lack of knowledge among minority students about what resources are available, especially because many of them are first-generation students. [17]
Eligibility is based on serving an undergraduate population that is both low income (at least 50% receiving Title IV needs-based assistance) and in which African American students constitute at least 40% [14] (e.g., Georgia State University, Trinity Washington University, Community College of Philadelphia). [15]
The eligibility criteria are now a 2.5 GPA or higher on the TOPS core high school curriculum, a score of 20 or higher on the composite ACT, and completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid application. In addition, students must have graduated from a high school in Louisiana, and their parents must live in the state. [4]
Since 1991, students obtaining sufficient grades, are still eligible for a free education (on a competitive basis) in state or private universities, but the student can also pay for studying if grades are above minimal threshold, but not enough to be enrolled into the desired university for free.
Louisiana students this year achieved the highest scores under the current 150-point system. The 2024 school performance score of 80.2 improved by nearly two points from the previous year, a 78.5 ...
Mount Lebanon University, Mount Lebanon, 1860–1906 — closed, replaced by Louisiana Baptists with Louisiana College St. Charles College , Grand Coteau , 1837–1922 — closed . Campus currently a Jesuit scholasticate, retreat center, and retirement home.
Misti Cordell, Chair of the Board of Regents, speaks as Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry stands by on executive order about free speech for higher education institutions on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024 ...
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette was the first public college in the former Confederacy to integrate its student body. Southwest Louisiana Institute, as it was then known, admitted John Harold Taylor of Arnaudville in July 1954 without incident. [46]