‘From the ground up’: How one community-run program is getting more kids to college

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Here's how the Greenville College Access Network is helping to get more kids to college, so far more than doubling the number of FAFSA applications from Greenville High School.

by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today March 30, 2022 Maple Smith has lived all her adult life in Greenville, save for the four years she spent in undergrad at Mississippi State University. A secretary in the city clerk’s office, she looks for ways to, as she puts it, “sow seeds” in Greenville in her free time — which she has a lot more of, now that her three kids have graduated college.

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

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