#AscendiumEP is committed to helping learners from low-income backgrounds achieve their academic and career goals. #AscendiumEP is committed to helping learners from low-income backgrounds achieve their academic and career goals. Ascendium Education Solutions is the nation’s largest student loan guarantor as well as a leading higher education philanthropy and provider of student success services for postsecondary institutions. Its grant funding is aimed at exploring, validating and scaling evidence-based strategies for overcoming systemic obstacles to completion of postsecondary education, particularly for students from historically underserved populations. All of Ascendium’s operations are grounded in the belief that every individual has potential to contribute meaningfully to their community and society. The organization works to unleash that potential through the power of higher education, and to eliminate barriers that stand in the way of its fulfillment.