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Book Review: Know That You Are Worthy: Experiences from First-Generation College Graduates
The literature on first-generation college students includes a rich collection of edited books in which academics and other professionals from
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Regional Colleges as the (Threatened) Lifeblood of Their Communities
As the national press is – again – focused on the administration's actions at a handful of elite colleges, ProPublica
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Mandating College Admissions That Favor the Rich
On February 14, the U.S. Department of Education issued a "Dear Colleague" letter to schools, colleges, and
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In Which the Powerful Decimate the Federal Financial Aid System
Inside Higher Ed has a summary up this morning of how deeply this weeks' cuts at the Department of
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Being a Student While Hungry
The Hope Center has released its 2023-24 student basic needs survey, and the news is grim. At a time when
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Complicating Research on First Gen Students
This new brief report on a longitudinal study of 1000 first- year students entering college in 2018 deepens our understanding
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Pushing Back
I wanted to stand up and cheer when I read this account of a consortium of community college leaders working
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The Changes to Education, So Far
It can be hard to keep up with the firehose of information from the federal government. Thus, this Hechinger Report
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Private College Counselors For Some Students? Fine. But the Low-Income Students Can Have Bots.
Because the application processes for federal financial aid are complicated and the student loan repayment system has been shifting so
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The Department of Education and Diminishing Financial Aid
As I write this, Linda McMahon, nominee for Secretary of Education, is testifying in her Senate confirmation hearing. Ms. McMahon
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A Century of Exclusion
The National Bureau of Economic Research recently released their detailed analysis of "the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds