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Download full textKathryn A. Larin – US Government Accountability Office, 2025
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Education have taken some steps to connect college students with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to help them pay for food, but gaps in planning and execution remain. Effective July 2024, a new law gave Education authority to share students' Free Application…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Federal Programs, Welfare Services, College Students
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2025
Federal Student Aid (FSA) processes more than 17.6 million Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms each year to help students pay for college and provide students with approximately $120.8 billion in grant, work-study, and loan funds. The FAFSA Simplification Act of 2021 required FSA to overhaul its systems and processes to…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Stakeholders, Feedback (Response)
Lynn Mellor; Kamal Middlebrook – American Institutes for Research, 2024
Universal Free Application for Financial Student Aid (FAFSA) policies are being implemented in states as a way to eliminate financial barriers to college enrollment and completion for underrepresented student groups. High school counselors play a critical role in helping students complete this graduation requirement. Texas adopted a universal…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, State Policy, Access to Education, College Attendance
Christa Deneault – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Barriers to accessing financial aid may keep students from matriculating to college. To test whether FAFSA completion is one of these barriers, I utilize a natural experiment brought about by a Louisiana mandate for seniors to file the FAFSA upon graduation from high school. Exploiting pre-treatment FAFSA completion rates as a treatment intensity…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Student Financial Aid, College Admission, Barriers
Wu, Tyler – Education Trust-West, 2019
California is fortunate to be the 5th largest economy in the world with an abundance of resources and diverse talent. Among those resources are our state colleges, which are not only premier institutions, but they are also changing lives and communities. Access to financial aid is critical for low-income students and students of color who want to…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Low Income Students, State Aid, High School Seniors
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The Race to the Top fund (RTT) is intended to be a major federal investment in state and local education capacity and systemic education reforms aligned with federal policy priorities. In coming years, questions will be asked about the extent to which investments made through the RTT grant program improve educational productivity and…
Descriptors: Productivity, Educational Change, Public Education, Federal Aid
Krueger, Carl; Lane, Patrick – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2011
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) Program is a federal formula grant designed to foster partnerships among federal, state, and local governments and philanthropic entities to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education. Created by the College Cost Reduction Act of 2007, the…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Grants, Low Income Groups, Federal Government
Van Dusen, William D.; And Others – 1980
The College Scholarship Service guide to implementing financial aid data processing systems is presented, based on conferences that promoted information exchange between data processing and financial aid administrators. The following topics are addressed: long-range planning, the rationale and organizational basis for financial aid, specific…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Data Processing, Federal Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
Office of Student Financial Assistance (ED), Washington, DC. – 1984
A manual of quality control (QC) techniques is presented for financial aid and fiscal administrators. Steps for establishing, designing, implementing, and evaluating a QC program are outlined including the following: obtaining institutional commitments; developing the QC team; determining priorities for development; determining functions to be…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Guides, Administrators, College Students
