Sentences with phrase «federal college access»

New York State selected OPFC as a single source provider of mobile, community - based college access and success services, providing federal College Access Challenge Grant funding to replicate to Utica, NY and Manhattan / Bronx, in partnership with Goddard - Riverside Community Center and New Settlement Apartments

The Network serves as a resource to Tennessee's congressional delegation on federal college access and success policy issues, particularly as they affect low - income and first generation students.

Our foci with federal advocacy efforts are around the areas of FAFSA simplification, sustaining the purchasing power of federal need - based financial aid, and ensuring continued availability of federal college access and success programs.

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«If you take out federal loans for four years, the rates on all four years can be different,» said Asher of the Institute for College Access & Success.

The vast majority of student loans are of the federal variety, explained Lauren Asher, president of the Institute for College Access & Success.

It is innovating within an antiquated federal regulatory structure that has historically prized access to higher education and tried to control quality based on a school's inputs — does it look like a traditional college?

New Research from Harvard Graduate School of Education Reveals Tax Credits» Goals Unachieved New research from the Harvard Graduate School of Education finds no evidence of increased college enrollment among students eligible for federal tax credits, despite the tax credit's primary purpose to increase access to higher education.

The proposal, which would also affect programs at nonprofit and public colleges, could limit a school's access to federal financial aid if its students have debt levels that...

Some of these changes focused on innovative ways to use data to inform college access for students or the development of apps as a tool to increase student enrollment in college to ways to help streamline the process for filling out the FAFSA application — the federal application students complete to apply for financial aid.

Federal policy plays an important role in the financing of postsecondary education at institutions by providing grants to low - income students and access to loans to all students, in both cases on similar terms regardless of whether the funds are to be spent at a public, for - profit, or private, non-profit college.

The topic of the full committee hearing is Ensuring Access to Higher Education: Simplifying Federal Student Aid for Today's College Student.

In the 1980s, the maximum Pell Grant — the money the federal money gives to low - income students to attend college — covered more than half the cost of a four - year public school, according to The Institute for College Access and Success, a think tank focused on college affordacollege — covered more than half the cost of a four - year public school, according to The Institute for College Access and Success, a think tank focused on college affordaCollege Access and Success, a think tank focused on college affordacollege affordability.

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

The draft also eliminates performance targets, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting underprivileged students, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.»

On Friday, the Obama administration announced an experimental program that will give up to 10,000 low - income students access to federal Pell grants to take college courses while still in high school.

On September 14 President Obama announced changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) process that will have a dramatic impact on the college access community next fall

Parents and children across the nation would be fortunate indeed if the Administration and Congress were to adopt a federal tax credit because it would facilitate access to a quality education for another 1 million students — most of whom will graduate and go on to college as the body of research into these programs clearly demonstrates.

Under her leadership, MCAN has raised over $ 3.5 million in federal and state funds to invest in Michigan's college access movement.

This fact sheet describes a joint commitment from multiple federal departments to align supports and program delivery to promote college access and completion.

To sustain MCAN and their efforts of investing in Michigan's college access movement, Brandy and her team has raised over $ 10 million in federal, state and private funds.

These policies included a proposed federal budget that cut millions of dollars for HBCUs and college access programs that help send low - income and first - generation students to HBCUs and other institutions, and $ 3.9 billion from Pell Grants, which a majority of HBCU students rely on to pay for tuition.

Most colleges can't keep their doors open without an accreditor's seal of approval, which is needed to get students access to federal loans and grants.

The Tennessee College Access and Success Network (TCASN) is thrilled to announce that we have received one federal policy advocacy grant and one state policy advocacy grant from the National College Access Network (NCAN), each in the amount of $ 40,000 over a two - year period.

Pathways to College Credentials and Careers: In order to increase the economic mobility of low - income and minority students, the Joyce Foundation will support state and federal policy work to: (1) better prepare students for college and career through early college credits, work - based learning, and high school interventions to reduce college remediation; (2) increase the likelihood that low - income and minority students will complete credentials or degrees of economic value at the institutions they attend; and (3) increase access and success for low - income and minority students in the public institutions with the highest economic pCollege Credentials and Careers: In order to increase the economic mobility of low - income and minority students, the Joyce Foundation will support state and federal policy work to: (1) better prepare students for college and career through early college credits, work - based learning, and high school interventions to reduce college remediation; (2) increase the likelihood that low - income and minority students will complete credentials or degrees of economic value at the institutions they attend; and (3) increase access and success for low - income and minority students in the public institutions with the highest economic pcollege and career through early college credits, work - based learning, and high school interventions to reduce college remediation; (2) increase the likelihood that low - income and minority students will complete credentials or degrees of economic value at the institutions they attend; and (3) increase access and success for low - income and minority students in the public institutions with the highest economic pcollege credits, work - based learning, and high school interventions to reduce college remediation; (2) increase the likelihood that low - income and minority students will complete credentials or degrees of economic value at the institutions they attend; and (3) increase access and success for low - income and minority students in the public institutions with the highest economic pcollege remediation; (2) increase the likelihood that low - income and minority students will complete credentials or degrees of economic value at the institutions they attend; and (3) increase access and success for low - income and minority students in the public institutions with the highest economic payoffs.

ACTA has a number of recommended reforms, the most prominent of which to me is to break the link between accreditation and federal student aid and end the accreditors» control over access to the huge student aid programs, a solution which it seems would have the added benefit of greatly reducing the inflationary college - cost spiral partly driven by these programs.

Additionally, we will support state and federal policy development and advocacy to increase student postsecondary completion, transfer, and post-graduate outcomes, especially at community colleges and open - access four - year institutions.

Federal investment should be sustained these programs, as well as College Access Challenge Grants, which have successfully increased the number of youth pursuing postsecondary degrees that provide them with the skills necessary for success in today's economy.

The group is calling for a rewrite of the federal education law that ensures access to a well - rounded education for all students, high school graduates who are well - prepared for college and jobs in the global economy, outstanding educators in every classroom, and innovative and creative approaches that improve student learning.

No less than eight other major education programs are coming due for their own scheduled renewals, including those that provide federal support for students with disabilities (IDEA); career and technical education; early childhood learning (Head Start); and college affordability, access, and teacher training (Higher Education Act).

College Success Arizona, is excited to announce that they have received a federal policy advocacy grant from the National College Access Network (NCAN) in the amount of $ 40,000.

Inside Higher Ed reported Oct. 31, 2013 that the White House and Department of Education will be hosting a «datapalooza» in the Spring of 2014 that will «look at better ways to package and provide access to existing federal data on colleges and students, such as the government's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, known as -LSB-...]

Using the Beginning Postsecondary Student Study of 2004, I show that access to federal Stafford loans does not affect the decision to attend community college.

More than one out of every ten community college students nationwide attends a community college that does not allow access to federal college loans.

These sizable effects of loan access on student behavior indicate that federal loans relax credit constraints for some community college students.

Recently reauthorized and newly proposed programs signify a growing federal government role in facilitating college access, affordability and accountability.

By waiving the high school diploma requirement for students taking dual and concurrent enrollment courses from colleges and universities that participate in the Department's experiment, low income students will be able to have early access to their Pell Grants, the largest federal program of student financial aid.

Phoenix, Arizona — College Success Arizona, is excited to announce that they have received a federal policy advocacy grant from the National College Access Network (NCAN) in the amount of $ 40,000.

Under this two - year grant, College Success Arizona will help inform and educate policy makers and elected officials at the Federal level about key postsecondary access and student success topics.

The College Cost Reduction & Access Act offers federal loan Income Based Repayment (IBR) and loan forgiveness for public service

Additionally, graduates who continue to work in public service for a period of ten years, who make monthly payments on a consolidated loan with the federal Direct Loan Program, will benefit from the new College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 (CCRAA) and can have their loans forgiven.

Finally, the federal HEO Act encouraged colleges to list the required course material information for students access at the time of registration, so in many cases students don't have to work the faculty as hard as this author suggests.

These bills included the Pell Grant Protection Act, the Year - Round Pell Grant Restoration Act, the Pell Grant Flexibility Act, the Pell Grant Accessibility Act, the 21st Century Federal Pell grant Plus Act, and the In The Red Act (note: the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 was not taken into account; it was deemed too broad to warrant explicit support for Pell Grants.).

On higher education and federal fiscal policy, Rep. Tiberi (R) believes that «the biggest problem today, though, is not access to college, but its escalating cost.»

Bill Keating is a Democratic House Representative who firmly believes that «access to Pell Grants and other forms of federal financial aid are often the deciding factor» for many students attending college.

To put it in perspective, many politicians who opposed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 may have supported a teacher loan forgiveness bill later on, so it is difficult to characterize party lines on forgiveness legislation like federal refinancing or interest rate legislation.

He supports Pell Grants to increase college access, supports keeping federal interest rates low.

He cosponsored the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act reflecting his support for federal refinancing, and he voted in favor of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act that increased Pell Grant funding.

Education loans (federal and private) are an important tool that many families and students utilize to gain access to a college education when all other resources have been exhausted.

The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 reduced the subsidies that lenders receive from the federal government.

In addition to helping you access federal aid, many states and individual colleges also use the FAFSA to determine your eligibility for state and school aid.