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Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students

The University Innovation Alliance

Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students. Completion Grants. Student Aid. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) was honored to partner with The Chronicle of Higher Education for its September 29, 2022 panel discussion on innovative financial aid for today's students.

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Financial Aid Displacement: What Families and Scholarship Providers Should Know

Scholarship America

Updated January 2023 Students and their families are often surprised to realize some colleges reduce their financial aid packages when the student earns private scholarship dollars—a practice called financial aid displacement or award displacement. Here’s a look at recent developments.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Granting that sort of leeway to aspiring and professional scientists from underrepresented groups has only increased during the five decades that SACNAS has been operating and growing. How is it going to impact financial aid, endowed scholarships that have been based on race and ethnicity? How is that going to impact missions?”

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

College Planners of America

One of the most popular student financial aid programs managed by the U.S. As is the case with other financial aid programs — the devil’s in the details! Any month spent in deferment prior to 2013. . Any month spent in deferment prior to 2013. But it isn’t as simple as it sounds. mail, or by fax.

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The U.S. Military Pays College Costs

College Planners of America

In this post, we cover the specific financial aid programs that the U.S. This extension, if granted, will pay veterans up to nine additional months of regular benefits or a maximum lump sum payment of $30,000. Beginning in 2013, benefits never expire. One of the strategies was enlistment in the U.S.

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Petitioning for the Right to Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I’m putting my time and energy into my education and volunteer efforts and living on campus on my scholarship and financial aid,” she says. Dr. Jennifer Nájera Another step forward came in 2013 with the passing of the California Dream Act, which made undocumented students eligible to apply for state financial aid.