ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of some common challenges and inequities that inhibit at-promise student success to situate the need for institutional action to address these challenges and promote equity. It discusses how many postsecondary institutions have created supplemental support programs to address the needs of at-promise students. Colleges frequently adopt approaches to teaching and learning that perpetuate and exacerbate pre-college academic inequities. As a result of these institutional conditions, at-promise students healthy identity development benefits from targeted support such as cultural centers, mentors with whom they identify, and identity-based programming. As the US college student population grows increasingly diverse, the success of students, institutions, and US society depends on the will of institutions to fundamentally rethink how they are addressing at-promise student challenges and inequities.
