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AUGUST 2, 2023

That meant she could accept an invitation to the University of California, Berkeley, which had offered her a generous amount of financial aid. Then, when she told the university about these other gifts she’d earned, something mysterious happened: The aid that Berkeley had agreed to give her was suddenly reduced.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

For many rural students, higher education means waking up before the sun four days a week, then driving an hour through cornfields or pine forests to reach the only college for 100 miles. In addition to long commutes, homesickness and culture shock, many students arrive underprepared in key subjects like math and science.

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APRIL 27, 2023

Like many other “free-college” programs, however, it only kicks in after federal financial aid has been maxed out, helping higher-income more than lower-income students. Most statewide programs, including Michigan’s, don’t necessarily help the lowest-income students finish or pay for college.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Students who are cut off from their families, such as many of those who identify as LGBTQ college students, may have difficulty establishing their independence for financial-aid purposes. And DREAMers, although legally enrolled under the DACA program, are barred from receiving federal financial support.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

As college admission decisions pour in and students weigh their options, some institutions are putting the poorest students at a surprising disadvantage: There are 17 colleges and universities where the lowest-income students may end up paying more out of pocket than the highest-income ones.

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JULY 10, 2023

As public confidence in the value of higher education wanes, state and national higher education leaders must do more to invest in programs that have demonstrated success at improving college completion rates and helping students find well-paying jobs. Related: Many community college students never earn a degree.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Students and families faced limitations around visiting campuses, colleges and universities grappled with the frustrating realities of remote learning and we all fretted about finances. There aren’t a lot of decisions in life with such high financial stakes that require so many steps to get to the bottom line.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2023

This June, there was a new round of news for some high school seniors — one they weren’t even expecting. The State College of New York mailed roughly 125,000 high school students letters offering them direct admission to their local community college starting this fall. By mid-March, regular offers begin to roll in.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2024

The number of Latino students who are going to college is on the rise, and they don’t all fit the profile of what institutions might consider the typical freshmen on campus. Their families also have lower average incomes than every other group except Black students. How do we help them get that?” Santiago says.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Several studies in the mid 2000s found that cell phone messages were surprisingly effective at reminding students to fill out financial aid forms, as well as to apply to and enroll in college. In the latest failure of texting, researchers nudged more than 800,000 high school students to apply for federal financial aid.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In addition, I had $30,000 in student debt. student loan debt climbed to $1.6 trillion , the country has finally begun to talk about the punishing financial costs of obtaining a college degree. But the singular toll on students like me — Black parents — continues to go largely unremarked upon. In recent years, as U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Perhaps that’s why years of dramatic enrollment declines, mounting student debt and threat of a recession led American Council on Education (ACE) president Ted Mitchell to issue sharp warnings last week to a group of college administrators. LOS ANGELES — It’s no secret that Americans are doubting the value of higher education these days.

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APRIL 11, 2022

Low-income students who were offered an upfront guarantee of free tuition at the University of Michigan were far more likely to apply and enroll than students who were told they would likely qualify for free tuition. What is the best way to help more bright low-income students attend elite colleges?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

million jobs in the last year means that few students and families have savings, and it is more challenging than ever to work to pay for school. This spring colleges and universities will have more than $25 billion in emergency aid to distribute to their students. The loss of 9.5 Institutions should embrace that freedom.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

LinkedIn originally published this article as part of the LinkedIn’s Avoid Student Debt Series. Today, parents and students have the ability to access endless amounts of financial information and potential resources to help pay for higher education. Parents, From the Beginning, Financial Education is Key.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Convincing students and parents to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or the FAFSA, can often be a losing battle – and completion rates are low in many states across the country. Related: Pell changes could mean more eligible students, more money, more programs. But the real prize? Money for college.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Filing of college financial aid forms by high school seniors is down 9 percent compared with the same period a year ago. High school seniors are filling out more financial aid forms than they were in the midst of the pandemic autumn of 2020, when there were record high drops in completions. But as of Feb. But as of Feb.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

For many former foster care students like Johnson — young adults with few resources to navigate independence — housing instability is a major impediment to completing a college degree. Housing-insecure students take fewer classes, earn fewer credits and are more likely to leave college before graduating, research shows.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This story also appeared in CBS News Beneath the inscription, a clock marks the time and dates when three swaddled newborns depicted in large photos entered the world: Ashley, now 19, Emily, 17, and Brianna, 11. WILMINGTON, Del. – She immediately signed up Ashley, and later, Emily.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I was homeless for six years and now attend Yale as a fully funded graduate student. Like many first-generation low-income students (FGLI) , I began my education at my local community college, Indian River State College in Florida. To create more success stories, we need better policies to support FGLI transfer students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2022

This story also appeared in NBC News. Those outside time commitments took such a toll on his grades that he was stripped of his financial aid, blocked from registering for any more classes and he risked being kicked out of the dorm that was his only place to live. “I I never heard of that,” said Dickinson.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2020

“I am a full-time college student. It was written by a student in a community college in Ohio. For more than fifty years, we’ve been told that giving low-income students financial aid makes college affordable. This is very far from what life is like for students from wealthy families at elite universities.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Offering every high school student access to college-level courses while in high school is one critical way to do so. Yet undocumented students, often called Dreamers, are too often excluded from such coursework, particularly dual enrollment. Related: High schoolers can take dual-enrollment courses for college credit.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The crying came when the 17-year-old was trying to make sense, on her own, of the complex form required to apply for the financial aid she needed as the first in her low-income family to go to college. Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami, which has nine college counselors for 3,000 students. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2023

First came the good news. After taking classes at a community college, Ricki Korba was admitted to California State University, Bakersfield, as a transfer student. But when she logged on to her student account, she got a gut punch: Most of her previous classes wouldn’t count. Yet the reality is rarely that simple.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Hundreds of students at tribal colleges and universities who need financial aid are waiting until the last minute to ask for it, according to report released this week from the Center for Community College Student Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. And these students need the money. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

Cook and Turner were able to conduct this analysis because the Department of Education began requiring colleges to report tuition paid by students from different family income levels beginning in 2008. Higher tuition paid by wealthier students has subsidized the discounts given to lower- and middle-income families, the researchers found.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2020

The class-action lawsuit was filed by Student Defense, a national legal defense network focused on higher education, and a Des Moines law firm, Wandro & Associates P.C. It’s the second time La’James has been sued for defrauding students; the first suit, brought by the Iowa Attorney General, ended in a financial settlement.

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OCTOBER 9, 2022

In high school, Carlos Granillo was a standout honor student and multisport athlete whose hard work earned him admission to the state’s flagship university, the University of Colorado Boulder. This story also appeared in NBC News. Credit: Michael Ciaglo for NBC News. BOULDER, Colo. — Mateo Vela, 2021 graduate of CU-Boulder.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

UW-Milwaukee students head to the university’s on-campus dorm. Looking for answers, she stopped by the school’s financial aid office one October afternoon and succinctly summed up her situation to an adviser: “I’m lost.”. Wrenching conversations like this are part of the weekly routine at UW-Milwaukee’s financial aid office.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Sanchez is now the executive director of Casa Latina, a new bilingual college program at Davenport that will cater to students exactly like the one he was 25 years ago. Students are eligible for the scholarship award regardless of their immigration status, which Davenport does not ask about, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2022

Morgan State’s applied liberal studies major targets adult students who have taken some college courses but dropped out before finishing. Nicholas Vaught, interim assistant dean for academics and student success in the College of Interdisciplinary and Continuing Studies, Morgan State University. That’s already putting them ahead.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The University of Central Arkansas is testing out a solution it says will largely eliminate financial barrier to a bachelor’s degree for families earning less than $100,000 per year. To be eligible , students have to be Arkansas residents whose total family annual income falls below the $100,000 threshold.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

This story also appeared in NBC News. There were other Black students on campus, but of the 20 Black freshmen he remembers becoming friendly with at the start of that year, he said 17 didn’t make it past the first semester. At Northeastern Illinois, only 11 percent of Black students graduated within six years in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2020

Because CARES Act money can be given only to students eligible for financial aid, Deborah Santiago, chief executive officer of Excelencia in Education, is worried about the many low-income or first-generation students who don’t know how to properly apply for aid. Credit: Delece Smith-Barrow/The Hechinger Report.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

Withholding transcripts from students who owe their colleges money drives inequitable outcomes, U.S. This story also appeared in GBH News. More must be done to recover from the damage caused by COVID-19,” Cardona told financial aid administrators at an online conference.

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APRIL 19, 2021

With hundreds of thousands of students unable to safely sit for the proctored tests during the pandemic, universities were forced to recognize that they do not need test scores to make good decisions. The College Board and ACT will still continue to offer these tests and to contend that test scores can provide value to admissions offices.

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