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Educational Equity Key to Progress and Democracy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2001, SLN launched the CollegeBound Initiative (CBI), placing 33 college counselors in schools in New York City, Rochester, and Buffalo. Since then, the team has helped over 23,000 students successfully navigate the path to college and helped them secure over $1 billion in scholarships and financial aid.

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These are the states with the highest student enrollment rates

University Business

Of the five states with the highest rate of college-going learners, four prove this is the case, especially regarding policies that provide higher rates of financial aid. average, the amount of financial aid distributed to each full-time enrolled Utah student is better aligned with its overall percentage of appropriations.

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Study Shows Declining State Aid in Massachusetts

Confessions of a Community College Dean

State financial aid per student in Massachusetts has been steadily decreasing over the last two decades, according to a new study by the Hildreth Institute, a research and policy advocacy center focused on higher education and social mobility. The majority of students had tens of thousands of dollars in unmet financial need each year.

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After “exhausting all avenues” to avoid going under, Notre Dame College closes

University Business

Such students can expect all their credits to transfer, and some will match their financial aid packages. Founded in 1922 as a women’s college, NDC became coeducational in 2001. NDC had 1,248 total students in 2021-22, according to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.

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Petitioning for the Right to Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I’m putting my time and energy into my education and volunteer efforts and living on campus on my scholarship and financial aid,” she says. It was in 2001 that California AB540 allowed undocumented students to pay in-state tuition, which was a huge win. That did not extend through to the colleges,” says Najera.

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The university’s response stated, “The process includes verifying each scholarship recipient’s final high school transcript which contains the GPA, before finalizing the student’s financial aid and scholarship awards. Students whose final GPA did not meet scholarship requirements were awarded need-based grants.”

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream. Smart (2001). The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys its Way into Elite Colleges and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. Goldrick-Rab, S. Graeber, David (2018) B t Jobs: A Theory. Simon and Schuster. Basic Books. Newfeld, C.