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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
In Stephanie Land’s brave and important new book CLASS ( a follow-up to her memoir MAID , the basis for an award-winning Netflix series) she explains that even though she knew a college degree was the best chance she and her 6-year-old daughter had of escaping poverty, being deprived of food made it nearly impossible. The U.S.D.A.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 28, 2024
For the last two years, my staff and I have been in the trenches, battling a fusillade of challenges brought on by our federal government, challenges that exacerbate the longstanding inequities students face as they navigate their path to a college degree.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. It is why we give all students, including dual enrollment students, access to $20 weekly to buy fresh, healthy food at the campus-based, community-led Farmers' Market.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
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. But there are still more expenses for basic needs, such as transportation and food.” But then in 2016 came President Donald J.
The Change Leader, Inc.
MAY 31, 2023
Providing more financial aid and more information about financial aid can help prospective students make a true risk assessment. Providing more generous financial aid targeted based on need and simple to apply for has a strong positive impact on increasing enrollment and persistence.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 5, 2023
But they also neglect the fact that millions of college students are dealing with food insecurity and/or experiencing homelessness, and as a result most will never reach the finish line. But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep.
Great College Advice
AUGUST 25, 2022
They don’t make a financial plan. They research colleges without any understanding of how financial aid works, or how rare those scholarships really are. And maybe some debt forgiveness from the Federal Government. You need to learn about how financial aid works. Many parents, sadly, are in denial.
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