The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Completion grants are an emerging form of student aid. million) to low-income students facing modest financial hurdles to degree completion as they neared graduation. In spring 2021, the UIA concluded its four-year completion grant initiative after providing more than 5,000 microgrants (valued at $3.6

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The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Lack of adequate career preparation can be especially harmful to students from low-income backgrounds seeking to expand their career options and increase their lifelong earning potential through college education. These key student needs catalyzed innovative career readiness solutions that were pilot tested on each campus.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I was overjoyed to have the concrete example of what these educators were willing to do for their students, for free (and often putting their own money in), in the midst of their own upended lives. Second, I had spent about fifteen years working to improve college success for first-gen, low-income students.

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Civitas Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Using Civitas Learning’s Initiative Analysis solution, leaders could identify which student populations benefitted most from emergency funding. Equipped with this information, LCCC leadership built a robust emergency fund and deployed it to provide holistic support to their students well before federal relief funds were available.

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COE

AUGUST 26, 2024

For first-generation and low-income students, these programs can be life-changing, offering experiences that might otherwise be out of reach. This sentiment was echoed by Jade Buchanan from Suffolk University, who noted that the experience taught her about the shared humanity that transcends geographical divides.

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Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As covered in Inside Higher Ed : “One particularly troubling enrollment trend exacerbated by the pandemic … is the decline of underrepresented groups—specifically Black, first-generation and low-income students. Free Tuition” to all in-state students from families with incomes under $67,000.

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Close the Gap Foundation

AUGUST 2, 2022

With her research work on human connections, acclaimed author and professor Brené Brown addressed how empathy fuels connection. How to Empathize Working with mentees who may not share the same identities can be challenging to the mentors. “Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 26, 2023

What types of students dropped out? In many institutions, it's a low-income student. What happens is that we lose students by the thousands, we find out much later, and there's nothing we can do about it. Why wouldn't you want additional ways to capture data about the student experience, or intervene in real time?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Williams They continue to be essential beacons of higher education for the talented students who attend them. Not only do HBCUs enroll twice as many first-generation, low-income students, but they also outperform peer institutions in improving the economic standing of their students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 28, 2022

TRIO programs, which include Upward Bound, Talent Search, and Student Support Service, got a $54 million increase to $1.2 billion, and Child Care Access Means Parents in School, which subsidizes childcare for low-income students, got $10 million more, up to $75 million.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

He provided historical context for the ED, highlighting its roots in addressing racial inequality and human rights. Dr. Marvin Lynn "The Department of Education really exists within the context of the ongoing struggle for civil and basic human rights, he said. Lynn warned that the U.S.

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COE

JUNE 3, 2025

The Trump Administrations claim that access is no longer an obstacle for low-income students is flatly contradicted by data and by the lived experience of more than 6 million TRIO alumni. We will continue to work with alumni, educators, students, and advocates to ensure Congress hears this message loud and clear.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 24, 2024

As a general rule of IT systems implementation, the more operations and human interventions that a new system has, and the FAFSA system had plenty of both, the more testing it needs. Low-income students will get more aid and many more students will be eligible for grants.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 24, 2024

As a general rule of IT systems implementation, the more operations and human interventions that a new system has, and the FAFSA system had plenty of both, the more testing it needs. Low-income students will get more aid and many more students will be eligible for grants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Colleges and universities are the places that, almost uniquely in our society, are structured to explore and open up understanding of human differences, to learn about the history and psychology and language and beliefs of many different populations, to teach our future leaders how to lead communities from tension to harmony despite differences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

Established as a cabinet-level department in 1980 under President Jimmy Carter , the Department of Education's primary mission is to promote student achievement and ensure equal access to education. a prominent anti-vaccine activist, was nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy Jr.,

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