Scholarship America

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As Melvin Hines, co-founder and CEO of the student-assistance app Upswing said in an interview , “When you’re a nontraditional student and you are taking classes, it can feel isolating. I think that’s the single biggest issue that nontraditional students face is that they seem to feel like they’re out on an island.”

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COE

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The report highlights that students value their degrees for immediate financial returns and personal fulfillment, meeting family expectations, and contributing to their communities. This underscores the need for higher education to adopt a more holistic approach to supporting student success.

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COE

MAY 31, 2024

Wolanin established the program in memory of Dr. Wolanin, who championed student financial aid and college access. COE and the family of Thomas R. Wolanin was a faculty mentor of Stoner’s at the University of Wisconsin, and Stoner has been involved in supporting all five cycles of the internship program thus far.

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COE

MAY 10, 2024

Students from higher socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to attend “most” or “highly” competitive institutions, while those from lower-income families tend to enroll in less selective institutions. Can Learn from Alaska Blog What Washington, D.C.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 24, 2023

President Milliron explained how this approach has already made a difference at National: "Our board has adopted a focus on how everything we do is around championing student success, building trust, advancing inclusion, embracing accountability -- and I love our last one, which is 'make things better.' That is a shared process."

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