Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
The “Paying for College Transparency Initiative” seeks to improve clarity, accuracy, and consistency of student financial aid offers. This national task force will create financial aid offer principles and standards to help students understand education costs and compare offers.
IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy
MAY 31, 2019
The authors identified several areas of concern, including misleading presentation of Parent PLUS loans and work-study grants, failing to list costs on the letter, failing to calculate the net price, and a lack of clear next steps for students and families. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office.
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College Planners of America
APRIL 5, 2024
This is a nearly impossible task for college financial aid offices , which are already coping with a large backlog of ISIR’s and a surge of questions from confused parents. Low-income students will get more aid and more students will be eligible for grants. Department of Education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
As the COVID-19 pandemic dawned in Spring 2020, the federal government granted institutions of higher education a series of waivers and flexibilities that allowed them to continue functioning under radically different conditions. Changes in who is responsible for paying for COVID tests and treatments could affect campuses, for example.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
After months of uncertainty for borrowers, the Biden administration’s student loan debt cancellation program, which offers $10,000 of relief to those making up to $125,000 and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, came before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, in oral arguments that stretched for over an hour past their scheduled time.
College Planners of America
APRIL 28, 2023
This will adversely affect the college plans of students planning to apply in the 2023-24 admissions cycle as well as students who need to re-apply for Federal aid each year. FAFSA data is also critical for the states that use it as the basis for their own awards of financial aid.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 25, 2023
“Unfortunately, in the last several years, colleges and universities and financial aid offices have gotten used to a political game of chicken in Washington, D.C., Colleges are hoping that a potential default would be short and have a limited effect on students, given that aid is mostly distributed in the fall or winter. “If
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