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The Student Aid Index: Shifting Our Thinking on Financial Aid Eligibility

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This blog was co-authored with Derek Flynn and Adam Connolly We have had many disruptors in higher education over the last several years, and this year, we have a new one that will have a major impact on financial aid awarding: the Student Aid Index. Pell Grant eligibility and SAI Pell Grants are another significant change.

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Direct Admissions Is Growing in Popularity as an Alternative Way to Market Your Institution. But Is It the Best Way?

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In the last few months, direct admissions programs at Niche, the College Board, and even state-run higher education programs have received renewed media attention. Supporters of direct admissions believe that participation in direct admission programs help more students see that a college education isn’t out of reach.

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This Initiative Is Mapping Public Transit Access to Community Colleges. Here’s Why.

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The recently launched Civic Mapping Initiative is making state-by-state maps of community colleges' accessibility by public transit. The initiative was launched by the Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation, which found in a previous nationwide analysis that only 57% of primary community college campuses were accessible by public transit.

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700,000 incarcerated students will be Pell-eligible in 2023. Here’s what that could mean for your institution

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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.

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These Colleges Were Just Awarded Grants to Boost Student Success Rates

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The Department of Education (ED) revealed a list of 38 colleges and universities set to receive funds from grant programs to improve outcomes for underrepresented students. Approximately $30 million in grants will be distributed to public state schools, private institutions, and community colleges.

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HBCU Presidents Are Leaving at a Rapid Clip – Here’s Why

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The History and Importance of HBCUs HBCUs were established to provide educational opportunities for Black people, specifically formerly enslaved people who were denied access to higher education institutions that were exclusively white. Forbes reports that Black land-grant universities have been underfunded by $12.8

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UNC Greensboro Provides Free Childcare for Student-Parents

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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Child Care Education Program (CCEP) won a research grant to fund student-parent fees for four years. The research grant focuses on enrolling single-parent, Pell Grant-eligible student-parents, but the CCEP team encourages all student-parents to apply.

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