IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

APRIL 23, 2024

In Massachusetts , the state-funded Supporting Urgent Community College Equity Through Student Services (SUCCESS) program provides community college students with wraparound services including tutoring, academic advising, financial aid counseling, and career guidance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

When the FAFSA Simplification Act begins to take effect this July, it’s expected to significantly affect the process of applying for financial aid, making the paperwork less complex and altering the formula for eligibility. Lower SAI numbers will lead to a greater number of students being eligible for Pell Grants. At least 7.8%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The interviewees were successful comebackers from California State University, Sacramento State and the Shasta-Tehama-Trinity Joint Community College District. For students who had a high number of college credits, raising their GPA above the 2.0

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In Massachusetts , the state-funded Supporting Urgent Community College Equity Through Student Services (SUCCESS) program provides community college students with wraparound services including tutoring, academic advising, financial aid counseling, and career guidance.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

APRIL 25, 2024

Level funding in the fiscal year 2024 appropriations package meant critical need-based financial aid programs, including Federal Work Study and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, were not cut. The program initially received $5 million in funding in FY22, then $45 million in FY23 and FY24.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Students receiving Pell grants have graduation rates 21 percentage points lower than students who are not Pell-eligible. Though typically less pronounced, graduation gaps also exist at community and technical colleges in our state. About 60% of our state university students graduate within six years. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

APRIL 23, 2024

Level funding in the FY24 appropriations package meant critical need-based financial aid programs, including Federal Work Study and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, were not cut. Looking ahead to next year’s appropriations package, we hope to see enhanced support for these and other need-based aid programs.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 1, 2024

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona didn’t always know where to turn for help in college. “It It wasn’t always easy to know where to go if I needed advice on what classes to take, what to declare for my major, how to get financial aid,” Cardona shared in a keynote at last week’s Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. Kenneth Adams, president of LaGuardia Community College. In many of our ACE programs, we grant academic credit. offers 28 data dashboards with insights on enrollment, grades, financial aid, retention, completion, and student demographics.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In Massachusetts , the state-funded Supporting Urgent Community College Equity Through Student Services (SUCCESS) program provides community college students with wraparound services including tutoring, academic advising, financial aid counseling, and career guidance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Cardona said that changes on several fronts will be necessary for colleges and universities to maintain the benefits of diversity, including increasing financial aid, expanding recruitment and relationships with K-12 schools, and fixing hitches in the transfer process. The problem is, they don’t want them.”

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. But now as we find ourselves stabilizing, it’s time to pause and take stock of the full landscape facing community colleges. get your copy 2.

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College Planners of America

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Attending a college that receives major gifts from deep-pocketed benefactors and possesses a multi-billion dollar endowment has advantages. Among these is the possibility that some of that money will trickle down to students as financial aid. Has the college been the recipient of major gifts? Bloomberg $1.8

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College Aid Consulting Services

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It’s important for students to submit their applications for financial aid as soon as possible. The sooner you file your FAFSA the better your chances of maximizing your financial aid. If you have any questions about school-specific deadlines, you should talk to your financial aid administrator. After Oct.

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College Aid Services

MARCH 15, 2023

President Joe Biden on Thursday released his first budget request for fiscal year 2024, which would boost funding for the Department of Education (ED) by 13.6%, and includes plans to increase the maximum Pell Grant award by $820, provide more funding for the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), and expand access to free community… More » Biden’s (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Others, alarmed by reports of the high cost of tuition, believe that going to college will require them to shoulder an oppressive debt burden. Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college. Despite the data, community colleges suffer from low prestige.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

But a new report from the National College Attainment Network (NCAN) shows that the high school class of 2022 left an estimated $3.58 billion on the table last year in the form of unclaimed Pell Grant funds—around 14% of annual Pell expenditures. That unclaimed money leads directly to fewer students attending and completing college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges. Enrollment for Black learners in community colleges is not down because of COVID or because the Black population is shrinking (in fact, it has increased by 2.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Perhaps the most significant public policy moment for colleges and universities this year was the failure of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) legislation, after the administration and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin could not at arrive at a deal. 2023 may be a bumpy ride, at least initially, and Hartle preached patience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Craig Lindwarm, vice president for governmental affairs of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities A leading contender for the chairmanship is U.S. Virginia Foxx, a North Carolina representative who previously served as chairwoman of the committee from 2017-2019 and was most recently the ranking member.

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Scholarship America

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

billion in Pell Grant funds on the table , along with millions of dollars in SNAP benefits, private scholarships and other forms of college financial aid. NCAN estimates that “about 767,000 students from the high school class of 2022 who would be eligible for Pell Grants did not complete the FAFSA.” More than 3.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Jon Fansmith Fansmith is hopeful that Biden will discuss federal financial aid, particularly the possibility of doubling the Pell Grant. When community colleges are mentioned in the State of the Union address, it elevates our sector across policy circles,” said Dr. Walter G.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 28, 2024

This post focuses at a micro level on the impact of the failed rollout on individual students participating in the 2024-25 financial aid cycle. But with a full cost of attendance of $80,000 per year, Montejo García will need Federal financial aid to bring the cost down. However, he hasn’t been able to submit a FASFA yet.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

Kellogg Professor of Community College Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. According to the Q&A, institutions can continue to collect demographic data, including on race and ethnicity, as long as it isn’t used to grant admissions preferences. Dr. Liliana Garces, the W.K.

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College Planners of America

JUNE 3, 2023

Applicants Should Always Submit a FAFSA The Free Application for Federal Student Aid ( FAFSA ) is a form completed by prospective and current college students to determine their eligibility for Federal, state, and private financial aid in the form of loans, scholarships, grants, and work-study programs.

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Student Research Foundation

JANUARY 26, 2023

Students Who Want to Attend State Schools, but who Lack the Financial Resources A growing number of state universities are offering direct admission to students who have previously studied at community colleges in the states where they reside. Learn about Pell Grants on the website of the US Department of Education.

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IEFA

AUGUST 6, 2022

A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further their education. Scholarships for international students can make a significant difference in a student’s ability to afford college, and they are an important source of financial aid. Differences between scholarships and grants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

She speaks proudly of CUSP (Completion for Upper-division Students Program), which uses predictive analytics to identify students at risk of not graduating because they have depleted their financial aid. She was crucial to building smooth transfer pathways from CUNY’s community colleges to John Jay.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships.

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Blackboard Blog

APRIL 27, 2022

College enrollment, specifically in community colleges, has declined due to the pandemic; however, the Hispanic student population has been disproportionately impacted. Family-focused events : Selecting and getting to know a college is often a family affair. Fall 2021 undergraduate enrollment is down 7.8%

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Believe in Students

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I heard about this first hand recently from Karli, a student at Stony Brook University who received one of their first FAST Fund grants last fall. She told me that one of her professors had noticed her struggling and approached her with an offer of support in the form of an emergency grant from the faculty-led FAST Fund.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

However, in this episode of the Weekly Wisdom Series , we spoke with President Casey Sacks , who began working at West Virginia’s BridgeValley Community and Technical College after serving two years as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges at the U.S. And that got us the grant. Department of Education.

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Student Loan Hero

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It features a free, frequently-updated database, allowing you to access a range of financial support for your higher education, whether it’s a four-year university, a community college, or a trade school. But CareerOneStop also features more than 8,000 scholarships, grants, fellowships and other financial aid opportunities.

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IEFA

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

you have the added advantage of a wide array of educational institutions to choose from, from small community colleges to large universities. Canada also offers students a great selection of universities and colleges with an emphasis on providing quality education to all. When studying in the U.S.,

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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.” A summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Dr. Renick holds his M.A. in Religion from Princeton University.

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Student Loan Hero

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Scholarship awards and financial aid can help ease the financial burden of attending college. 20 scholarships for Hispanic and Latino students Eligibility requirements vary for these scholarships, but they usually require you to be enrolled at an accredited four-year college or university and maintain a 3.0

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