How Are The More Than 400 College Promise Programs Helping Students?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : That is important, but the message of free college is just as valuable.
70% : In addition to bringing attention to the significant growth of free college programs, the report presents findings on a multi-year effort to define the different groups of students that free college programs serve and to help provide guidance on the varying types of support different students need to be successful.
66% : The report highlights massive growth in free college programs.
64% : Ideally, free college will be back on the national agenda to create a true federal-state partnership that could provide free college to all students, not just those lucky enough to live somewhere with a program.
58% : There are now free college programs in all 50 states, 425 of them, to be exact.
57% : By combining free college programs with other supports recommended in the report, such as improved financial aid provision, on-campus childcare, and support for student basic needs like food and housing, promise programs offer a lifeline to students struggling to figure out how to pay for college.
51% : Free community college was part of the President's agenda that was eventually cut from the Build Back Better legislation.

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