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Prison Education Programs Await Pell Grant Approval Amid Slow Rollout

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Last summer, the Department of Education extended Pell Grant eligibility to incarcerated students. Pell Grants award students financial aid for college that they don't need to repay. In January, Cal Poly Humboldt's prison education program was the first in the country to be approved for Pell Grant funding.

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Pennsylvania Grants 30 Colleges $1M to Fight Food Insecurity

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BestColleges found that 23% of college students were food insecure in 2020. The state of Pennsylvania is battling food insecurity across 30 colleges, universities, and trade schools in the state through $1 million in grants. CCAC is honored to be one of the recipients of the PA Hunger-Free Campus grant award.

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NASFAA Rolls Out Recommendations for Pell Grant Expansion

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Students who are incarcerated are set to regain access to Pell Grants nationwide in 2023. Education officials should step up communication about the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) process for incarcerated students to make sure the upcoming Pell Grant expansion is successful, according to a new report.

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College Receives Tech Talent Diversity Initiative Grant

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Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy joined leaders from the tech and innovation sector at Rapid7 in Boston today for the announcement of three new grants from the Commonwealth’s Tech Talent Diversity Initiative, an effort aimed at boosting diversity hiring and training opportunities for diverse candidates.

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New Program Aims to Increase Voter Turnout Among Community College Students

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Two-year institutions can apply for grants to use on voter registration and get-out-the-vote initiatives, and one school may win a concert headlined by a yet-to-be-announced musician. Students from both private and public four-year institutions voted at a higher rate in 2020 than students from community colleges.

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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

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million additional undergraduates were pushed into all online (or for many “emergency remote”) courses in fall 2020, only 2.5 million of them had left fully classroom study in 2020. degree-granting institutions of at least 2 years.) degree-granting institutions of at least two years.) Further, only an additional 1.8

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Unequal Distribution

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Financial aid discussions have centered on simplifying FAFSA and increasing federal Pell Grants – all important – but federal student aid policies are only one funding source for families trying to determine how to pay for college. However, the reality is these institutional grants are not fairly distributed.