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Do Community Colleges Need an “Intervention”?

EAB

So there are easy things that I've seen visiting community colleges, I visited a community college in Maine where the financial aid staff all went to lunch at the same time. Can we entertain the idea of office hours in the evenings? But some community colleges have managed to do it. This had a huge impact on retention.

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4 ways financial aid partnerships can help you ride out the turbulent FAFSA season

University Business

Financial aid offices often deal with some of higher education’s most complex, nuanced and flat-out tricky fine-print problems. This delay in aid can lessen students’ financial aid rewards and impact their decision-making. Recent national developments will only exacerbate the problem.