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Survey: FAFSA Delays Changed Composition of Fall 2024 Incoming Class

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nearly half (49%) of respondents reported that their fall 2024 class was “more difficult to fill” due to the FAFSA delays. Among the topics addressed in the online survey are the impact the FAFSA delays had on the fall 2024 class, financial aid distribution, and the number of students receiving a Pell Grant award.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams became the director of the Career Advancement Center, where he would spend the next five years inviting first generation, low-income students, women, LGBTQ+, and other under-represented undergraduates into pursuing their graduate degrees. Dr. Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr., And have a good time doing it.’”

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Pat Williams: A Champion Who Gave Wings to TRIO’s Defiance 

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The rain was incidental—it kind of added a little drama to it — but what really mattered was that a Member of Congress had chosen to champion first-generation, low-income students, and students with disabilities at a time when TRIO’s very existence was in question. Hamm Click to view the page: U.S. this summer.

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A Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Trump has brought a sense of uncertainty as 2024 draws to a close. As the year winds down, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and administration are left to wonder what comes next in higher education. Student debt issues loom, and problems due to the rollout of the 2024-25 FAFSA linger. Dr. Everrett A.

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More Than 10,000 TRIO Alumni Urge Congress to Protect Federal TRIO Programs

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The Trump Administrations claim that access is no longer an obstacle for low-income students is flatly contradicted by data and by the lived experience of more than 6 million TRIO alumni. In the powerful letter sent to congressional appropriations leadership, TRIO alumni from every state and several U.S.

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Why Trump’s Budget Proposal Betrays a Generation of Low-Income College Students

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Targeting TRIO for complete elimination in its most recent budget proposal to Congress, the Trump Administration wrongly claimed that “access to college is no longer the barrier it once was for low-income students.” Hamm Click to view the page: Three TRIO Leaders Honored with the 2024 Walter O. this summer.

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The Council for Opportunity in Education Launches Inaugural Award for Institutional Effectiveness to Scale TRIO Student Support Services Practices Campus-Wide

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COE’s award will accelerate the adoption of evidence-based SSS practices, ensuring that colleges nationwide thoughtfully invest in the success of first-generation and low-income students.” Hamm Click to view the page: Three TRIO Leaders Honored with the 2024 Walter O. The selection process unfolds in two stages.