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More College Aid Going to the Rich

ITHACA, N.Y. — Maya Portillo started life solidly in the middle class. Both her parents were college graduates, they sent her to a Montessori school, they took family vacations and they owned a house in Tucson filled with the books she loved to read. Then, when she was 10, Portillo’s father left, the house was […]

Finance

Michigan Man Pleads Guilty to $150,000 Student Loan Fraud

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A Grand Rapids man pleaded guilty Tuesday, Nov. 28, to federal charges after obtaining student loans in others’ names to defraud the U.S. Department of Education of about $150,000. Brandon Kenon Rogers, 31, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, a 20-year felony, aggravated identity theft, which carries a mandatory two-year prison term […]

Finance

Mississippi Governor Proposes Free College

JACKSON, Miss. — Free community college for all Mississippians would be an ambitious and easy-to-explain goal. What Gov. Phil Bryant again proposed last week in his budget recommendation appears more limited, aimed at producing more technical graduates from community colleges. “The Mississippi Works Scholars Program proposes to incentivize high school seniors and adults already in […]

Finance

Statistics on Free-Tuition Plan Show Success

Since our last issue, more Excelsior Scholarship numbers have come in, which helps better explain how the funding played out at public colleges in New York this past semester. As well, the state says that those students who did not qualify for fall may qualify this spring — so if you didn’t get funding, try […]

Finance

Cuomo: Tuition-Free College Available for Spring

The application period is open for those interested in receiving the Excelsior Scholarship, an aid program established by New York that helps state residents attend public colleges and universities, for the spring 2018 semester. Students whose family incomes are no more than $100,000 are eligible to receive the Excelsior Scholarship in the spring. The income […]

Finance

Californians Ambivalent on College, Costs

Along with worry over the high costs of college and housing, many Californians say there are ways to succeed without college. That’s according to a new poll published this week by the Public Policy Institute of California. Nearly half of adults and 55 percent of likely voters say there are “many ways to succeed without […]

Finance

California Ready to Begin Free First-Year Program

With a proposed starting date in January, the first 12 months of community college for first-time students may be free with the start of the newly signed California College Promise. Assembly Bill 19, proposed by Assemblyman Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles) and also known as the California College Promise program, was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown […]

Academics

Nebraska College Offers $15,000 Aid for Transferring

Southeast Community College students who transfer to Nebraska Wesleyan will soon be able to get an annual $15,000 scholarship or a lower tuition rate under a partnership between the two institutions. Called the Pathways Partnership, the program will allow full-time students enrolled in Southeast Community College’s academic transfer program to get the scholarship for up […]

Finance

Free College Succeeding in Tennessee

Tuition-free attendance in Tennessee is raising college and full-time enrollment and speeding the awarding of degrees. Those are the outcomes shared with the state’s Board of Regents regarding the first class of “Tennessee Promise” students, who entered college in the fall of 2015 and have gone through four semesters since then. The program gives students […]

Finance

California Bill Makes First Year Free

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The first year of community college will be free for thousands of California students under a bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The signing announced October 13 creates the “California College Promise” program. It waives course fees for a student’s first year of classes. Students must apply for the fee waiver and […]

Finance

Cuomo: 53% of SUNY/CUNY Students Covered by Grants

About 53 percent of full-time SUNY and CUNY in-state students, more than 210,000 New York residents, are going to school tuition-free through the Excelsior Scholarship, the New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), Pell and other scholarships, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office. So far, approximately 45,000 students have been determined eligible for the Excelsior […]

Finance

More Students Go Without Basic Needs

With the high prices of college tuition, a growing number of students are experiencing food and housing insecurity in both community colleges and four-year institutions. Sara Goldrick-Rab, a higher education policy and sociology professor at Temple University, published a study, “Hungry and Homeless in College,” which is the largest study about basic need insecurity to […]

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