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Let’s Partner with Agriculture to Address Food Insecurity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act. The average benefit for a single adult is around $2,000 a year and it is higher for students with children. The U.S.D.A.

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Recent financial aid increases lead to lower student net prices, per College Board

University Business

Adjusting for inflation, students today have paid less and borrowed less money to cover the price of net tuition than their peers throughout the last 20 years thanks to increasing avenues of financial aid, according to a comprehensive report from the College Board, “Trends in College Pricing and Student Aid 2024.”

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How higher education leaders can institute and support financial literacy programs for their student body

Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

Financial Literacy and Education Commission, between the academic years of 2004-2005 and 2015-2016, the cost of undergraduate tuition, fees, and room and board at public institutions rose 34%. This means that more students have taken on debt to pay for college—much of which consists of federal government loans totaling more than 1.5

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Leveraging PEP and EMI Data to Improve Institutional Value and Student ROI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 173 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Michael Itzkowitz

The Change Leader, Inc.

billion in grants and establish policy for nearly $120 billion in Federal student aid every year. billion in grants and establish policy for nearly $120 billion in Federal student aid every year. Then I slowly started analyzing it before I left in 2016, and I’ve been analyzing data ever since. I like it.

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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. Dr. Jennifer Nájera Another step forward came in 2013 with the passing of the California Dream Act, which made undocumented students eligible to apply for state financial aid.

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Student Loan Forgiveness and Borrower Assistance Actions (US Department of Education)

Higher Education Inquirer

The Department delivered long-awaited relief to borrowers who attended some of the most notoriously predatory institutions to ever participate in the federal financial aid programs. To December 16, 2016, for campuses owned by the Education Corporation of America (ECA) on that date that closed.

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College Meltdown 3.0 Could Start Earlier (And Be Worse) Than Planned

Higher Education Inquirer

Since 2016, the Higher Education Inquirer has documented the College Meltdown as a series of demographic and business trends making US higher education of decreasing value to working-class and middle-class folks. This despite the commonly-held belief that college is the only way to improve social mobility.