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Chapman University Receives $1 Million to Reinforce Financial Safety Net for Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The money will support the Women of Chapman Student Hardship Assistant Fund, which helps students with immediate and unexpected hardships, such as costs related to housing, food, transportation, technology, medical bills, and getting home during a family crisis. More than 80% of Chapman’s students receive financial aid.

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Rising to the Challenge on Student Basic Needs Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ten years ago, most college students short of money for food would have difficulty finding a food pantry on campus. Food insecurity wasn’t a widely recognized problem in higher education and “student basic needs” wasn’t a field of practice. Students require and deserve far more than band-aids.

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Community College Teams Up with For-Profit for Medical Assistant Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Using traditional sources of financial aid and TFJSA funds, Alamo sent a special cohort of 10 students to CHCP’s program at no cost for tuition, laptop, books, and course materials. CHCP has a nine-month medical assistant certificate program, with the option for students to choose the timing, modality, and location of their education.

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How empowering first-generation students with success coaches builds equity

University Business

These could include financial aid, housing, food pantry, transportation, childcare and technology. Coaches assess how a student’s current employment status, family obligations, housing, food security and health impact their life and education.

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Required to Study Abroad

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And financial aid packages that apply on-campus follow them as well, Hoose said. Because he received free tuition, room, and board at Goucher, he only had to pay for food and his flights, he said. “I What we find, is that gives students some predictability,” Hoose said. The classes were in French. I made a lot of local friends.

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Overcoming Barriers in Higher Ed: Strategies for Student Success and Employability: Changing Higher Education Podcast 157 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guests Kathryn Campbell and Dr. Zack Mabel

The Change Leader, Inc.

Providing more financial aid and more information about financial aid can help prospective students make a true risk assessment. Providing more generous financial aid targeted based on need and simple to apply for has a strong positive impact on increasing enrollment and persistence.

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Student Loans, College Costs, and Parental Self-Denial

Great College Advice

They don’t make a financial plan. They research colleges without any understanding of how financial aid works, or how rare those scholarships really are. You need to learn about how financial aid works. Student Loan Debt: A Burden Too Big to Ignore. Many parents, sadly, are in denial. They don’t save enough.