Evaluation
Measuring Our Success
Prioritizing students from underrepresented communities, our core advising programs are open and accessible to all our partners’ students, regardless of their academic performance or postsecondary aspirations. Students want–and need–different levels of support, so we meet more than 10,000 high school and college students where they are, via text and in person, to complete significant steps in the financial aid and college affordability process.
Within the programs’ breadth, we focus on depth, building strong relationships with many students to achieve outcomes that put them on successful postsecondary paths. These include applying for and securing financial aid, making financially informed college decisions, and navigating affordability systems. Organizing students by their level of engagement with their uAspire advisors enables us to measure these outcomes accurately, which requires student-reported data that we can obtain from our deeply engaged students.
Advising Evaluation Framework
Every student in our core programs is assigned an advisor and receives our year-round curriculum and resources through a combination of text and in-person advising. We organize students by their interaction with their advisors to measure our impact, evaluating key performance indicators for each group–students were taught, advanced, or transformed. In 2023, we directly advised 10,539 students:
