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    Priced Out: A Closer Look at Postsecondary Affordability for Latinos 

    Rendon, Laura; Dowd, Alicia C.; Nora, Amaury (Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, 2012-08-16)
    A key barrier to college access and completion for Latinos is financial. Latino families experience the college affordability landscape in dramatically different ways than White and Asian families, whose needs may well be ...
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    Profile of Very Low And Low-Income Undergraduates in 2015–16 

    Chen, Xianglei; Nunnery, Annaliza (U.S Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, 2019-10-01)
    The primary objectives behind postsecondary financial aid programs are to increase access, improve affordability, and promote equal opportunity and college success for postsecondary students (Gillen 2010). Low-income ...
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    Higher Ed Guide to Tuition, Financial Aid & Other Funding for Undocumented Students: FAQs for Public and Private Colleges and Universities 

    Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration (Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, 2020-04-16)
    This report provides a higher education guide to tuition, financial aid and other funding for undocumented students.
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    Disproportionate Burden: Estimating the Cost of FAFSA Verification for Public Colleges and Universities 

    Guzman-Alvarez, Alberto; Page, Lindsay C. (Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2020-08-01)
    Verification is a federally mandated process that requires selected students to further attest that the information reported on their FAFSA is accurate and complete. In this brief, we estimate institutional costs of ...
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    2020 Undergraduate Scholarships that Don't Require Proof of U.S. Citizenship or Legal Permanent Residency 

    Immigrants Rising (Immigrants Rising, 2020-08-01)
    Undocumented immigrants face diverse challenged when pursuing postsecondary education. The imposition of out-of-state tuition fees effectively keeps them out of college in most of the United States. This report provides a ...
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    Leveling the Playing Field: Expanding Access to Higher Education 

    Demos (Demos, 2004-08-04)
    There has been a fundamental shift in our nation's priorities for ensuring access to higher education. In the 1970s and 1980s, most aid was awarded in grants, while loans remained relatively low. Over the last two decades, ...
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    Championing Success: A report on the progress of Tribal College and University alumni 

    The Institute for Higher Education Policy (The Institute for Higher Education Policy for the American Indian College Fund, 2006-04-01)
    This report presents the findings from an original survey and personal interviews conducted with American Indian College Fund scholarship recipients. The report is a snapshot of how scholarship recipients are faring after ...
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    Lower-income Communities Face Nearly $30 Billion in Student Loan Debt 

    The Education Trust-New York (The Education Trust-New York, 2018-03-21)
    In New York State, new data show that lower-income families face overwhelming student loan debt and reinforce the importance of strong and immediate action to protect borrowers and prevent onerous student loans. The report ...
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    Hot Topics in Higher Education: Tuition Policy 

    Weeden, Dustin (National Conference for States Legislatures, 2015-09-01)
    Tuition at public four-year institutions has increased faster than inflation every year since 1980. Over time, these consistent increases have compounded, causing concern among students, families and legislators about ...
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    Can Information Widen Socioeconomic Gaps in Postsecondary Aspirations? How College Costs and Returns Affect Parents’ Preferences for their Children 

    Cheng, Albert; Henderson, Michael B.; Peterson, Paul E.; West, Martin E. (Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2019-09-01)
    To estimate whether information can close socioeconomic gaps in parents’ aspirations for their child’s postsecondary education, they administer a four-armed survey experiment to a nationally representative sample of U.S. ...
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