A national nonprofit group devoted to publicizing college students’ ideas about public policy has collected and released 25 proposals by students for how to make higher education more socioeconomically diverse.

The group, the Roosevelt Institution, promoted the plans as part of its series that also presents college students’ proposed solutions for problems facing working families and for solving America’s energy dilemmas.

The 25 ideas for expanding college access among all socioeconomic groups include proposals to improve how information about college is disseminated, to help public schools prepare more students for higher education, to make it easier for families to pay tuition and other costs of attending college, and to expand students’ college options.

Among their proposals, students advocated: setting up federally financed college-savings accounts for all elementary-school students from low-income families, giving out college information to everyone who applies for or renews a driver’s license, and requiring school districts in which few students apply to college to require high-school juniors to take a class on learning about and applying for college admission and student-aid programs.

The Chronicle recently published a series of articles about economic disparities in higher education and ideas for bridging the gaps. —Sara Hebel