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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. Dr. Gresham D.

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Pell Grant Increase Will Help Low-Income Students, But More is Needed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. With President Biden’s signature on Dec. Federal Reserve. “On

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PSLF Could Soon Include All Early Childhood Education Workers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Public service jobs include public education, social work, and early childhood education — it’s already in the definition. Retention levels of those who received the grant were 96% across the state. “It They experienced 300% influx.

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GAO Report: Cost of College Remains a Mystery

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Award letters have really not done a great job of distinguishing between grants and loans, sometimes intentionally.” The College Cost Transparency and Student Protection Act would establish standardized terms and definitions for key financial information. I think it’s a way for them to be playing defense,” she said.

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The Big Questions About Scholarship Taxability

Scholarship America

While most scholarship awards are not taxed, there are a number or circumstances in which they can be, and many students and parents may not know the details. Here are some of the most pressing questions we’ve heard regarding scholarships and taxation right now. Is my private scholarship subject to taxing?

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Students Weigh Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws in College Decisions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Having to take state politics into account is an unfair additional burden on LGBTQ+ students, according to Dr. Margaux Cowden, chief program officer at the Point Foundation, a nonprofit that grants scholarships to LGBTQ+ learners. That concerns me beyond comprehension,” said Bodell.

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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. They take unique approaches to scholarship aid that reduce the chance of displacement.