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Financial Aid Timeline for High School Seniors

Great College Advice

Winter of Senior Year Communicate with Colleges If you have experienced unusual circumstances recently that affect your ability to pay for college that aren’t reflected on your submitted FAFSA (unemployment, medical expenses, a death in the family, etc.), inform the financial aid office about them.

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Mental Health and Financial Barriers Threaten College Student Success (TimelyCare)

Higher Education Inquirer

In an open-ended question, students identified several ways institutions can better support their success, including: Promoting Awareness of Resources: Students called for more accessible and transparent communication about resources like tutoring, counseling, and career services. Talk about these services more openly.

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Consolidating touch points for retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A more recent trend is consolidating student services related to academics or health and wellness into a larger office or building. Tutoring, library resources, academic advising and career services are smushed together, and counseling, disability services, medical centers and student care teams are sharing space more than ever before.

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Steps to success: Connecting careers to student support

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: Pixabay, pexels, CC0 In this post, Susan Bird, the Link Careers Consultant for the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Edinburgh, explores a recent opportunity to strengthen ties between the Careers Service and evolving student support systems. Oct 27, 2022

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How employees are using CU’s Tuition Assistance Benefit (TAB)

CU Work-Life Balance

Mark Paquette guides UCCS students through the ins and outs of identifying and securing jobs that align with their career goals. After spending 15 years in the financial services sector, Paquette moved to higher education with a focus on student career services. Anschutz Medical Campus. Steve Zweck-Bronner.

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Supporting sustainable careers and preparedness for job automation

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The project, funded by a PTAS grant, brought together academic staff from Moray House School of Education with practitioners in the Careers Service. One of the project aims has been to develop a sustainable career learning intervention which will be integrated within various provisions offered to students by the Careers Service.

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Financial Aid Timeline for High School Seniors

Great College Advice

If you have experienced unusual circumstances recently that affect your ability to pay for college that aren’t reflected on your FAFSA as you filed it (unemployment, medical expenses, a death in the family, etc.), Communicate with Colleges. make sure you inform the financial aid office about them. Research Campus Work Options.