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Paul G. Vallas – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2024
Students who have dropped out of high school--and those at risk of doing so--are at greater risk of lifelong poverty, involvement with the criminal justice system, dependence on government welfare programs, and even premature death. In the last few years, however, the problems at high schools have compounded, as pandemic-era school closures led to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Work Study Programs, At Risk Students, Dropouts
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Marianna Savoca; Kelli K. Smith; Simran Kaur – Assessment Update, 2024
How do we scale student participation in high-impact practices (HIPs) on campuses where there is limited supply? Student employment, not an official HIP yet, has potential to fill this gap. This article describes approaches taken by two campuses within the State University of New York (SUNY) system to transform work-study/student employment into…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Student Employment, Educational Change, Universities
Fountain, Joselynn H. – Congressional Research Service, 2021
The Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA; P.L. 89-329, as amended), authorizes a broad array of federal student aid programs that assist students and their families with financing the cost of a postsecondary education, as well as programs that provide federal support to postsecondary institutions of higher education (IHEs). Programs authorized by the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid
Chester Polson; Emily Weisburst – Texas Education Research Center, 2024
Each year as tuition costs increase, more students rely on financial aid to attend institutions of higher education. Financial aid packages, which are created to encourage individual investments in education, consist of a variety of types of funding assistance and aid packages, and are highly tailored to individual students. In general, financial…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Paying for College, Student Employment, Work Study Programs
Kraft, Matthew A.; Falken, Grace T. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
In this paper, we explore how tutoring could become a permanent feature of the U.S. public education system. We outline a blueprint for taking tutoring to scale nationally and estimate its costs, while highlighting a range of design and implementation challenges. Our blueprint is centered on ten core principles and a federal architecture to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Tutoring, Costs, Program Design
Fountain, Joselynn H. – Congressional Research Service, 2023
This report provides a brief overview of the major provisions of the Higher Education Act (HEA), organized by title and part. Appendix A of this report provides detailed appropriations figures for HEA programs, from FY2019 through FY2023. Appendix B gives a brief overview of the General Education Provisions Act, which applies to the majority of…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Higher Education, Federal Programs
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2019
Work-based learning provides students an opportunity as aspiring employees to explore careers and to turn theory and simulation into practice by gaining on-the-job experience. The hands-on experience gained from work-based learning opportunities, especially when considered in combination with the attainment and application of employment soft…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, On the Job Training, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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Paterson, Jim – Journal of College Admission, 2021
In both the stacks of research compiled by education think tanks and in the conversations had around the dining room table by families of aspiring college students, one stumbling block to college enrollment predictably crops up--financial aid. The topics range from avoiding endless, crushing debt to options for part-time jobs. But often the focus…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Financial Aid Applicants, Paying for College, Knowledge Level
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Burns, Rachel; Johnson, Ruby; Lacy, T. Austin; Cameron, Margaux; Holley, Jordan; Lew, Stephen; Wu, Joanna; Siegel, Peter; Wine, Jennifer – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
This Summary presents selected findings from "2017-18 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, Administrative Collection (NPSAS:18-AC): First Look at Student Financial Aid Estimates for 2017-18. NCES 2021-476rev." The study includes information for about 245,000 undergraduate students and 21,000 graduate students attending 1,900…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Postsecondary Education, Institutional Characteristics, Federal Aid
Fountain, Joselynn H. – Congressional Research Service, 2018
Three Higher Education Act (HEA) student financial aid programs--the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) program, the Federal Work-Study (FWS) program, and the Federal Perkins Loan program--collectively are referred to as the campus-based programs. Under the campus-based programs, federal funding is provided to institutions…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid, Student Loan Programs, Grants
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Erin C. Yang; Robby Divine; Christine S. Kang; Sidney Chan; Elijah Arenas; Zoe Subol; Peter Tinker; Hayden Manninen; Alicia Feichtenbiner; Talal Mustafa; Julia Hallowell; Isiac Orr; Hugh Haddox; Brian Koepnick; Jacob O'Connor; Ian C. Haydon; Karla-Luise Herpoldt; Kandise Van Wormer; Celine Abell; David Baker; Alena Khmelinskaia; Neil P. King – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Undergraduate research experiences can improve student success in graduate education and STEM careers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, undergraduate researchers at our institution and many others lost their work-study research positions due to interruption of in-person research activities. This imposed a financial burden on the students and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics
Policy Matters Ohio, 2020
In Ohio, the pandemic has forced students to pause their pursuit of a college degree or abandon their aspirations for higher education all together. The health crisis has accelerated a downward trend in enrollment in public higher education, at least for now, and thrown into sharp relief the barriers that prevent Black and brown students, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Pandemics, COVID-19, College Students
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Ocean, Mia; Vanidestine, Todd; Radis, Brie; O'Neal, Gwenelle; Nuccio, Tori L.; Craig, Sherri; Tucker, Yema; Woleschok, Jacob; DeLoach, Yasmine Marie; Hendricks, Najah; Lair, Liam Oliver; Akbar, Ginneh L. – About Campus, 2023
In this article, the authors share how they facilitated remote work-study options during COVID-19 as a united university community following anti-oppressive practice (AOP). Work-study is a Title IV campus-based program that had been somewhat static since its inception in 1964 but now has been challenged to reignite its role in addressing social…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Work Study Programs, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Parrish, Jesse; Parks, Rodney; Taylor, Alexander – College and University, 2017
Increasingly, college students struggle to find translatable meaning in their college experiences. Following a program of study and dabbling in a few extra-curricular experiences proves to be enough to graduate, but somehow some students fail to thrive in all areas of well-being once they are at work. If this disconnect is rooted to a lack of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Alignment (Education), College Students, Work Study Programs
Weir, Cate; Boyle, M. – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2023
This Insight Brief discusses how students with intellectual disability can utilize federal financial aid to help pay for college. This publication is updated annually to reflect current legislation and policy related to federal financial aid for students with intellectual disabilities. The information provided is current as of January 2023.
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Federal Aid
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