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Pennsylvania Grants 30 Colleges $1M to Fight Food Insecurity

BestColleges

BestColleges found that 23% of college students were food insecure in 2020. The state of Pennsylvania is battling food insecurity across 30 colleges, universities, and trade schools in the state through $1 million in grants. CCAC is honored to be one of the recipients of the PA Hunger-Free Campus grant award.

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NASFAA Rolls Out Recommendations for Pell Grant Expansion

BestColleges

Students who are incarcerated are set to regain access to Pell Grants nationwide in 2023. Education officials should step up communication about the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) process for incarcerated students to make sure the upcoming Pell Grant expansion is successful, according to a new report.

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College Receives Tech Talent Diversity Initiative Grant

#LetsBFRANK: The College Admissions Blog

Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy joined leaders from the tech and innovation sector at Rapid7 in Boston today for the announcement of three new grants from the Commonwealth’s Tech Talent Diversity Initiative, an effort aimed at boosting diversity hiring and training opportunities for diverse candidates.

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Meet Sophia, Your Robot Commencement Speaker

BestColleges

As such, the university sought someone capable of unpacking the potential that [AI] has to change the world in various ways, Benjamin Grant, D'Youville's vice president for student affairs, told BestColleges. She's also the first robot to earn citizenship , which Saudi Arabia granted her in 2017.

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Enrollment Format Choices: Snapping Back to “Normal”?

Ruffaloni

million additional undergraduates were pushed into all online (or for many “emergency remote”) courses in fall 2020, only 2.5 million of them had left fully classroom study in 2020. degree-granting institutions of at least 2 years.) degree-granting institutions of at least two years.) Further, only an additional 1.8

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Unequal Distribution

Admitted

Financial aid discussions have centered on simplifying FAFSA and increasing federal Pell Grants – all important – but federal student aid policies are only one funding source for families trying to determine how to pay for college. However, the reality is these institutional grants are not fairly distributed.

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$100,000 per Year! Rising College Costs and Student Loans

Discovery College Consulting

In 2020, when child number two started school, Columbia topped the list at $81,000. For the 2020-2021 school year, the University of Miami’s total cost of attendance for an undergraduate living on campus was $75,230. When my son decided to go to Miami in 2020, we had no idea the cost would rise so high, so fast.

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