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Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness

EAB

With more than two-thirds of community college students requesting aid annually, 30% being Pell-eligible, 16% being single parents —and inflation at a perilous high—everyone is feeling the effects of one more line-item in the household budget each month. Remind them about available resources often, and at the top of each semester.

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Mumpower told lawmakers that university leaders should have foreseen a housing crisis, given that it more than quadrupled its 2022–23 scholarship budget to $28.3 “In the fall of 2021, management decided to conduct an extensive recruiting campaign to bring in more students, which by itself is not an issue.