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Tag: Financial Aid: Page 12
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California Lawmakers Announce Plan to Reduce Student Debt
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Assembly Democrats on Monday proposed an extensive expansion of financial aid programs for students at California’s public colleges and universities. They’re calling their plan the most ambitious proposal in the country to reduce student loan debt. In addition to expanding financial aid for community college students, it would create $1.6 billion per […]
March 13, 2017
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Diverse Conversations: Affordability Biggest Key to College Access
What does it actually take to make higher education accessible to a larger portion of the population? Affordability.
February 21, 2017
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Smith College Raises Possible Record $486M
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — A private liberal arts college for women says the Massachusetts school has raised a record-high $486 million. The Boston Globe reports Smith College in Northampton announced on Monday its “Women for the World” campaign significantly surpassed its goal of raising $450 million. The campaign launched in the fall of 2012. The school […]
February 21, 2017
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Report: Financial Pressure Swamping Community College Students
Despite relatively low costs, a Center for Community College Student Engagement report found that nearly half of all students said they were considering dropping out due to financial pressures.
February 20, 2017
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Blacks, Hispanics Losing Out on LSAT-based Financial Aid
The result of privileging LSAT scores through merit-based scholarships is what some call a “reverse Robin Hood” effect, in which students from less privileged backgrounds end up shouldering more of the cost of law school.
February 9, 2017
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Ground-level Support Helps Solve FAFSA ‘Riddle’
Until the FAFSA sees a dramatic overhaul, the best and perhaps only answer to addressing some of its perceived weaknesses is a boots on the ground approach.
February 8, 2017
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$5M Lawsuit Lodged Against For-profit Nursing School
PORTLAND, Maine — Aspiring registered nurse Stephanie Kourembanas says she first heard of for-profit InterCoast Career Institute through a friend, and liked the nursing program’s rolling admissions policy and its apparent accreditation. But colleges she’s applied to won’t accept her credits, she says in a recently filed federal lawsuit, because the licensed practical nursing program […]
January 25, 2017
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University of California System Proposes First Tuition Increase in 6 Years
SAN FRANCISCO — Undergraduate students at the University of California may face a tuition increase for the first time in six years under a proposal to be considered by the university’s board of regents this month. UC officials unveiled the plan Wednesday, saying that proposed increases in tuition and fees represent a modest way to […]
January 5, 2017
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Yale Changes Financial Aid Policies for Low-income Students
NEW HAVEN, Conn —Yale University says it has made changes to its financial aid policies to help low-income students. The Ivy League school says that for several years parents earning less than $65,000 annually have not been required to contribute at all to the cost of a child’s education. Under the changes announced this month […]
December 26, 2016
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Will.i.am.-backed College Track’s 10-year Plan Working for Students
The California-based nonprofit provides college advising, academic and financial support to first-generation college students over a period of 10 years, starting the summer before 9th grade.
December 26, 2016
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American Talent Initiative Seeks to Provide Educational Access for Low-income Students
Thirty higher education institutions from across the academic spectrum have united in an effort to increase the enrollment and graduation of high-achieving students from low- and moderate-income families.
December 14, 2016
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Financial Aid for College not Reaching Foster Youth
Although special programs have been set up to provide financial aid for students who’ve been in foster care, the requirements can be so confusing and restrictive that many foster youth “continue to slip through the cracks,” a new report has found.
October 31, 2016
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