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Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed: Strategies for Student Success and Employability: Changing Higher Education Podcast 157 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guests Kathryn Campbell and Dr. Zack Mabel

The Change Leader, Inc.

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.

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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. But there are still more expenses for basic needs, such as transportation and food.” But then in 2016 came President Donald J.

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Student Loans, College Costs, and Parental Self-Denial

Great College Advice

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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Let's Talk About the True Cost―and True Value―of a College Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Educationlike agriculture, transportation, energy, manufacturing and other sectors important to the security and prosperity of our countryis, in part, subsidized by the federal government. Financial aid is tailored to individual students financial-need as assessed by the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

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Black Community Colleges Received $2.7 Billion in COVID Relief Funding, Joint Center Study Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From 2020 to 2022, the federal government distributed nearly $80 billion to higher education institutions through three rounds of HEERF funding, with community colleges receiving $25 billion of that total. The 39 institutions analyzed in the study received about $765 million for direct student aid and $1.9