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No Educational Experience Should Be an Island: How Low-Income Students’ Access to and Persistence in Postsecondary Education is Restricted in the Very Programs they Need the Most
(Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), 2016-05-01)
For low-income students, particularly those who are lower-skilled and/or did not enroll in postsecondary education immediately after high school, completing a community-college based workforce development program offers a ...
Barriers to Success: High Unmet Financial Need Continues to Endanger Higher Education Opportunities for Low Income Students
(Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), 2015-06-01)
For nearly three in four people, paying for a postsecondary education seems out of reach. The cost of college has far outpaced the growth in incomes for more than a decade. Low-income students are disproportionately affected ...
The Real Price of College. College Completion Series: Part Two
(The Century Foundation, 2016-03-03)
The high price of college is the subject of media headlines, policy debates, and dinner table conversations because of its implications for educational opportunities, student and family pocketbooks, and the economy. Financial ...
A Service Science Perspective on Higher Education Linking Service Productivity Theory and Higher Education Reform
(Center for American Progress, 2012-08-01)
Policymakers are currently wrestling with fundamental but complex questions about the future of higher education, including how to hold colleges responsible for the billions of dollars in federal financial aid money they ...
Five Facts About the Proposed Student Loan Repayment System
(Center for American Progress, 2018-04-10)
Student loan borrowers may be in for a big surprise in 2019. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) is proposing big changes to the system that allows more than 37 million borrowers to repay ...
Doing Away With Debt
(The Education Trust West, 2013-02-01)
America’s financial-aid system has become almost impossible to navigate and burdensome for those who need it most. Tuition and fees rise unabated, forcing almost half of college going students to borrow. Low and middle-income ...
College Enrollment and Retention Effects of In-State Tuition Benefits to Non-Citizens Research Brief Commissioned by College Board
(University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2013-07-01)
Immigrant students face barriers to postsecondary education. Often, immigrant students are required to pay higher tuition rates than citizen students which can have negative implications for immigrant students’ postsecondary ...
Higher Education State Funding Trends and Policies on Affordability
(United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), 2014-12-01)
There is widespread concern that the rising costs of higher education are making college unaffordable for many students and their families. Federal and state support is central to promoting college affordability; however, ...
Winning the Future Improving Education for the Latino Community
(U.S. Department of Education; The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, 2011-09-01)
In January 2011 State of the Union, President Obama made it clear that the most important contest this country faces today is not between Democrats and Republicans but with competitors round the world for the jobs and ...
Do In-State Tuition Benefits Affect the Enrollment of Non-Citizens? Evidence from Universities in Texas
(University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2014)
In 2001, the Texas state legislature passed House Bill 1403. With the passage of the law, Texas became the first state to legislate that non-citizens (including illegal immigrants) who graduated from an in-state high school ...