Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

An additional 1,600-1,700 students at Emory University received grants and scholarships instead of loans in their financial aid packages this fall, the Atlanta-based institution announced recently, more than doubling the number of undergraduates expected to finish school with limited or no debt.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs April 7, 2023 — by Terry Vaughan III The research will examine how TRIO programs can work with existing career services to provide comprehensive career support to learners.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 27, 2023

So, what we've tried to do is find new interventions that can help deal with these really crippling DFW rates that not only hold up students academically, but also interfere with their eligibility for financial aid.” It's helpful to get a baseline set of data, but also seeing how much effort it takes to get that data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Seventy-two and a half percent of the students in the program are first-generation college students and 75% are Pell grant eligible. It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Pell Grant availability for incarcerated adults Starting in July 2023, over 700,000 incarcerated adults will become Pell eligible. Even more impressively, going back to the fall 2008 cohort there has been a 4% improvement in completion rates. This could be a trend that continues in other states. Community colleges have seen a.9%

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 11, 2022

The roots of these equity gaps in many places fall at the feet of the colleges and institutions themselves, the way we admit students, the way we advise them, the way we register them for classes, the way we package them for financial aid.". How to Improve Student Outcomes.

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College Planners of America

JUNE 12, 2023

She stated that, “For the past 14 years, I’ve tracked a cohort of 60 Latinx millennials, most children of immigrants and childhood arrivals, who were college students in 2008. Borrowers who received Pell grants could qualify for an additional $10,000 in forgiveness. Most took out student loans.

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