written by myself and two of my research assistants, ty quinn and an undergraduate student named danny corelle. what we tried to do in our paper was provide a landscape of the nation's msis, institutions that educate 20% of our college students. oftentimes people forget that. so these institutions, as we know and as most people have been saying today, have a proven track record with first generation students, low-income students and students of color. if you could flick the slide, please. so this will just give you a few numbers that give you an idea of what's going on in the msi landscape. one thing i want to point to is the pell grant percentage. 50% of students at msis are utilizing the pell grant, which is really important. msis are known for their family-like environments, they're known for success in developmental education even though developmental education gets kicked around a bit. there are many examples of msis of their success and they're empowering to people of color. so msis are deeply vulnerable because of their financial situations as some of the presenters have explained and a

written by myself and two of my research assistants, ty quinn and an undergraduate student named danny corelle. what we tried to do in our paper was provide a landscape of the nation's msis, institutions that educate 20% of our college students. oftentimes people forget that. so these institutions, as we know and as most people have been saying today, have a proven track record with first-generation students, low-income students, and students of color. if you could flick the slide, please. so this will just give you a few numbers that give you an idea of what's going on in the msi landscape. one thing i want to point to is the pell grant percentage. 50% of students at msis are utilizing the pell grant, which is really important. msis are known for their family-like environments, they're known for success in developmental education even though developmental education gets kind of kicked around a bit. there are many examples of msis of its success. they're also known for their same-race profiles which empowers people of color. so msis are deeply vulnerable because of their financial situations a

written by myself and two of my research assistants, ty quinn and an undergraduate student named danny corelle. what we tried to do in our paper was provide a landscape of the nation's msis, institutions that educate 20% of our college students. oftentimes people forget that. so these institutions, as we know and as most people have been saying today, have a proven track record with first generation students, low-income students and students of color. if you could flick the slide, please. so this will just give you a few numbers that give you an idea of what's going on in the msi landscape. one thing i want to point to is the pell grant percentage. 50% of students at msis are utilizing the pell grant, which is really important. msis are known for their family-like environments, they're known for success in developmental education even though developmental education gets kicked around a bit. there are many examples of msis of their success and they're empowering to people of color. so msis are deeply vulnerable because of their financial situations as some of the presenters have explained and a