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AccessLex Provides Update to Legal Education Data Deck in New Release

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The data deck also highlights concerning patterns in student retention. Black law students receive the highest average total aid packages at $54,200, but 87% of this amount comes in the form of federal loans rather than grants. The updated report also reveals changes in scholarship practices across law schools.

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New Research Shows Benefits of Summer Pell

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For most of its 50-year history, the Pell Grant has not covered summer classes, with two brief exceptions: 2009-2011 and 2017 to the present. Part-time students can use leftover traditional Pell Grant money to take summer classes, so they don’t qualify for summer Pell.)

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

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This can involve modernizing the Pell Grant program to allow for short-term program access and modernizing the work study program to allow for apprenticeship programs.” Innovations Smith said a rebound in community college enrollment is largely due to dual enrollment, which allows high school students to take community college courses.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu. In the last three years EPW’s fall to fall retention ranges from 93% to 96%. “I I track them in retention. I track them in graduation.

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6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023

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After losing over 10% of two-year students during the pandemic, both due to declines in new students and to a national dip in retention, this enrollment recovery was a welcomed reprieve. Pell Grant availability for incarcerated adults Starting in July 2023, over 700,000 incarcerated adults will become Pell eligible. rate in 2020.

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New Pell Institute Report Shows Decline in the Global Position of the United States in Bachelor’s Attainment, Increasing Inequality of College Opportunity at Home

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Among dependent students who first enrolled in 2011-12, six-year bachelor’s degree completion rates by 2017 were 45 percentage points lower for both low-income and first-generation students compared to their higher-income counterparts. Media Inquiries For media inquiries or to arrange an interview, please contact Terrance L.