A joint project of the center and UNC’s Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise provides a comprehensive intervention model designed to improve the academic standing of male high school athletes recruited for college athletics and their likelihood of academic success.
Center director Roberto Quercia and Mark McDaniel, senior research associate for community development outreach, will use Harvey Award prize money to develop the curriculum and pilot the first coaches’ academy in several North Carolina counties in the fall of 2014.
Center researchers join experts from across the country discussing innovations in asset-building research, practice and policies at the 2013 Pathways to Prosperity Conference Oct. 16-17 in Durham, N.C.
Americans have long looked to college education as a way out of poverty and into the middle class. But a new study by the UNC Center for Community Capital reveals that soaring levels of debt among college students, particularly low-income minority college students, threatens to undermine the economic benefit of this key wealth-building tool.
Researchers assess the feasibility of establishing college campus programs to improve students’ financial knowledge and reduce dropouts due to financial hardships.
Overall differences in parental outcomes between low-income homeowners and renters on parental outcomes are statistically non-significant, implying that tenure per se is not associated with parental attitudes and behavior.
Researchers find the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) service test provides minimal incentive for banks to serve unbanked and underserved populations and recommends 10 reforms to strengthen CRA as a tool for helping more families enter the financial mainstream. Financial services … Continued
