Ohio State University is among the colleges trying to expand access for low-income students. OSU President Michael V. Drake about the school's initiative. 

An interesting article with a short video on the American Talent Initiative, which is designed to promote top performing universities to recruit from the lower income/wealth brackets in an attempt to pull from a larger talent pool.

The goal is to enroll 50,000 more lower income students by 2025. The stated drive behind the push is simply that talent is distributed across a large swath of income and to attempt to provide more opportunities to those on the lower end of the income scale.

Here's a link for the video, which I wasn't able to embed in the post but is worth the short watch.

Interested to hear what 11W thinks of the push. With a large number of alumni as well as many current students hanging around here on a daily basis, what are your thoughts on the stated goal?