• Abstract
• Executive Summary
• From the Director
• Background
• Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education
• Chart: Median Income and Educational Attainment
• Poverty and Education in New York State
• The ACCESS Project at Hamilton College Mission Statement
• Academic, Social Service, Family, and Career Support
• Chart: Hardship Demographics
• Chart: Skills Assessment
• Chart: Comparative Retention and GPAs
• Chart: Citizenship and Social Responsibility
• Our Program
• Student Pathways
• Chart: ACCESS Classes and Supports
• What Our Faculty Say About Teaching In ACCESS
• Our Students
• Demographics
• Ten Remarkable Lives
• Social Service Model
• Career Model
• Assessment Model
• Evaluation
• Personnel
• Bibliography

Photo Exhibit

A nationally touring exhibit of 50 framed, museum quality, color photographs coupled with narratives created by students who are welfare eligible, single parents changing their lives through the pathway of higher education.  The installation presents a unique view of poverty from insiders’ perspectives and reframes the cultural (de)valuations of poor single parents vis-à-vis family, work and higher education in the United States today. View the Gallery Guide.