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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The event offered pro-bono legal consultations and support from community organizations providing social services, health care, financial services, and employment. There was free pizza from an award-winning shop , music, and even entertainment for kids. That effort and others like it are essential services for basic needs in college.

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Small College America – Profile: Whitman College

Edu Alliance Journal

Financial Strength and Support: Despite its modest enrollment, Whitman maintains a substantial endowment nearing $800 million. This financial strength enables the college to offer robust financial aid packages, greatly reducing costs for middle-income families and improving access.

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4 ways financial aid partnerships can help you ride out the turbulent FAFSA season

University Business

Financial aid offices often deal with some of higher education’s most complex, nuanced and flat-out tricky fine-print problems. This delay in aid can lessen students’ financial aid rewards and impact their decision-making. Recent national developments will only exacerbate the problem.

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Do Community Colleges Need an “Intervention”?

EAB

So there are easy things that I've seen visiting community colleges, I visited a community college in Maine where the financial aid staff all went to lunch at the same time. Can we entertain the idea of office hours in the evenings? But some community colleges have managed to do it. This had a huge impact on retention.

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Wrestling with Public Education: Linda McMahon’s Nomination as Secretary of Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Linda McMahons nomination to be Secretary of Education under President Donald Trump exemplifies this trenda calculated move that highlights the incoming administration's apparent disdain for public education. Consider the litany of controversial appointments in the upcoming administration.