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BestColleges
MAY 3, 2023
As a single demographic, Asian Americans appear to be doing well — high educational attainment, high household incomes — but a closer look by origin group paints a more complicated picture of how some Asian Americans are really doing. In 2015-2016, Asian students made up 6% of first-generation college students. [8]
BestColleges
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Tuition for students is free, courtesy of the Second Chance Pell Grant program. The link between education and recidivism is clear: the higher the education, the less likely the chance of recidivism, Dr. Charles Adams, Criminal Justice Department chair at Bowie State and co-director of the prison education initiative, told BestColleges.
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EAB
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Beginning July 2023, over 700,000 incarcerated adults will become Pell Grant eligible , enabling qualified students to pursue federally funded college education for the first time since the 1990s. When this funding ended, only a handful of secondary education programs in federal and state prisons remained.
BestColleges
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Black students are, historically, less likely to be able to afford college and account for a disproportionate number of Pell Grant recipients and student loan borrowers. Young Black students are still most likely to see the value in higher education despite significant hurdles.
BestColleges
MAY 21, 2024
Calculating the ROI of Higher Education The study, " Does College Pay Off? Department of Education's College Scorecard , among other sources, the report estimates the ROI for 53,000 degree and certificate programs based on student cohorts from 2015-16 and 2016-17. Using data from the U.S.
BestColleges
JANUARY 10, 2023
Spilka highlighted community colleges had key access points for people from low-income backgrounds, immigrants, and parents pursuing a higher education, The Boston Globe reported. The city of Boston committed to pay up to three years of tuition for Pell Grant-eligible residents, according to the city's website.
Georgia Tech Admissions Blog
JANUARY 20, 2024
But every team, company, and organization have its weaknesses, and while we have grown significantly in every other category and demographic, we have failed to increase our enrollment of low-income students and Pell Grant recipients. And arguably there has never been a more dynamic and important time in higher education and college admission.
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