New Members Join the Coalition for 2022-23 Academic Year

OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, ONE OF 20+ NEW COALITION MEMBER SCHOOLS FOR 2022-23.

Sept. 29, 2022

The Coalition for College, a diverse group of public and private colleges and universities across the U.S. working to improve college access, welcomes new members for the 2022-23 academic year. These institutions join a distinguished membership of more than 170 colleges and universities with a demonstrated commitment to supporting low-income, under-resourced and first-generation students.

New members include:

Bard College
Beloit College
Centenary College of Louisiana
Chaminade University of Honolulu
Clark University
DePauw University
Drew University
High Point University
Lawrence University
Le Moyne College
Marywood University
Occidental College
Oglethorpe University
Ohio Wesleyan University

Palm Beach Atlantic University
Quinnipiac University
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Rowan University
St. Norbert College
University of Illinois at Springfield
University of La Verne
University of the Incarnate Word
Washington & Jefferson College
Western Carolina University
Westminster College
Wheaton College
Whitman College

“Membership in the Coalition provides colleges and universities the opportunity to collaborate in unique and meaningful ways to expand access to higher education,” says Stacey Kostell, CEO of the Coalition. “We’re thrilled to welcome so many great schools at this pivotal time for our organization, and we look forward to their partnership on a variety of college access initiatives planned in the year ahead.”

This year, the Coalition launched a new way to apply to college, via a partnership with Scoir and Technolutions. Now, on Scoir, students can manage more of their college-planning journey in one place, from discovering schools and building their college list to applying and tracking their application status.

Beyond its shared application for member schools, which features an easy-to-use fee waiver that students can learn about and secure early in their college-planning process, the Coalition also brings its membership together in a variety of ways to help expand college access. Members participate in free college-planning workshops for students and their supporters; coordinate visits to schools where 40% or more of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch; share information and advice in articles and videos on the web and social media; and help build a national registry of organizations that provide free college counseling.

Graduating students on time, and with low or no debt, is the basis for membership in the Coalition. Averaged together, Coalition schools outperform national graduation rates by 17 percent. 

See a list of all Coalition member schools.

See a list of Coalition members now accepting our new application method with Scoir.