Peer Mentoring Improves College Success for Lower-Income Students
In 2021, Batten Associate Professor Ben Castleman and colleagues posted a working paper demonstrating that peer mentoring delivered at a national scale generated large improvements in college enrollment quality for lower-income students.
In an updated research brief this month, Castleman and Dr. Kelli Bird, assistant professor at the School of Education and Human Development, show a sustained positive effect of peer mentoring on college persistence several years after high school.
Benjamin Castleman
Ben Castleman is an associate professor of public policy and education at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on policies and strategies to improve postsecondary educational and workforce outcomes for individuals from lower-income and historically-marginalized communities. His current work focuses on innovations to increase economic mobility among lower-wage adults, including digital- and health-skills training programs; state-funded career and technical education; and competency-based education models for working adults.
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