Beyond Financial Aid: How colleges can strengthen the financial stability of low-income students and improve student outcomes

BFA is a compendium of best practices for assisting low-income students. It highlights good work that has been underway for years but has not always been implemented at scale, especially within institutions that enroll significant numbers of low-income students. This report offers leaders five concrete strategies they can use in two ways to increase student success. First, it can help determine how, and how well, their institutions are serving low-income students; second, it can help them devise and implement plans to improve, expand and better coordinate services for greater impact.