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Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis Recruits Students to Increase Voter Engagement » Reading time: 6 min. SFSTL Voter Engagement Interns Kayla Sullivan (far left) and Asia Parson (far right) with...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022 OneGoal Announces KY Partnership, Evaluation Results » Reading Time: 2 min. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, states have been seeing drastic decreases in...
Monday, March 7, 2022 KHEAA Aims to be 'One-Stop Shop' for Kentuckians » Reading time: 4 min. The Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA) is one of a growing number of a...
Monday, February 14, 2022 Scholarship America is One-Stop Shopping for Many Scholarships » Reading time: 2 min. At Scholarship America, our goal is to help students pursue and fulfill their biggest educat...
Monday, February 14, 2022 Broward County Helpline Provides New Model for FAFSA Completion Assistance » Reading time: 3-4 min. In October 2021, South Florida’s local college access network, Bridge2Life (B2L) , launch...
Monday, February 7, 2022 Sending Love to NCAN Members for Valentine’s Day » Reading time: 3 min. As Valentine's Day approaches, it's a good time to celebrate some of the many wonderful attr...
Monday, December 6, 2021 OneGoal and the Illinois State Board of Education Establish Statewide Partnership » Reading time: 3 min. OneGoal , an NCAN member, and the Illinois State Board of Education announced a partnership...
Monday, November 1, 2021 New Study: Bottom Line Provides Huge Boost to Students’ Outcomes » Reading time: 3 min. “Given declining social mobility over time, intensive advising appears to be an effective po...
Wednesday, March 31, 2021 Rural Communities and AmeriCorps – A Match Made in Heaven? » Reading time: 3 min. AmeriCorps members gathered at the Annual Campus Compact Presidents’ Awards in 2016 to cel...
Monday, March 8, 2021 Partners for Education: Why We Created a College Access and Success Summit for All Rural Communities » Reading time: 4 min. Conversation between rural college access professionals has been and remains core to the R...
Friday, November 6, 2020 CollegeBound Foundation Staff, Students, and Volunteers Adapt to the Pandemic » By Cassie Motz, Executive Director, CollegeBound Foundation Almost eight months into the pandemic, our Baltimore Cit...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Anupam Ghosh, CollegeTracks » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now c...
Friday, October 30, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Stephanie López, MSW, Denver Scholarship Foundation » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now c...
Thursday, October 15, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Cindy and Richelene Cesar, The College Crusade of Rhode Island » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now c...
Friday, October 9, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Christopher Caver, On Point for College Alum » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now c...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Darius Spurlock, Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now c...
Monday, September 28, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Lauren Taylor, Degrees of Change » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now c...
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Loreal Latimer, OneGoal » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now cre...
Thursday, September 3, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Danjuma Quarless, Degrees of Change » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now cre...
Wednesday, September 2, 2020 Small But Mighty: How One Local New York Program is Confronting Food Insecurity During COVID-19 » By Alexandra Boillot, Director of Development, CitySquash CitySquash is an after-school youth enrichment program ba...
Thursday, August 27, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Kaila Holloway, College Track New Orleans » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now cre...
Friday, August 21, 2020 #FAFSABrightSpots: Get2College’s Something Old, Something New Approach to Connecting with Students » By Ann Hendrick, Brandi Lyndall, Kierstan Dufour, Get2College No one would have predicted that 2020 would be anything...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Recognizing 25 Years of Progress and Student Achievement » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now cre...
Friday, August 14, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Joseph 'Joe' Palombo, Scholarship America Alum » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now cre...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Elsa Martinez-Pimentel, uAspire Alum » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now cre...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020 #FAFSABrightSpots: Hawaii P-20 Acted Fast to Support Seniors in FAFSA Completions During COVID-19 » By Lesli Yogi, Communications and Engagement Specialist, Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education When the COVID pandemi...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 #FAFSABrightSpots: How Iowa is Stabilizing FAFSA Completion » By Nathan Svare, Elizabeth Yaddof, and Jamie Covell, Iowa College Aid Iowa College Aid offers an array of programs for...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Michelle Y. Bess, Degrees of Change Alum » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now c...
Friday, July 24, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Jennifer Covahey, CollegeBound Foundation Alum » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now c...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 #FAFSABrightSpots: LOSFA Embraces the Opportunity to Provide Virtual FAFSA Completion Assistance » By Dr. Sujuan Boutté, Executive Director, Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance The Louisiana Office of Stu...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 #FAFSABrightSpots: Indiana Creates a Virtual FAFSA Frenzy » Jarod Wilson, director of postsecondary outreach and career transitions at the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, ho...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Zelalem Alabo, CollegeTracks Alum » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now cre...
Friday, July 10, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Zachary Lane, Partnership for the Future Alum » The college access and success field is old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now cre...
Monday, July 6, 2020 NCAN Alumni Spotlight: Linwaun Fulton, Crosby Scholars Community Partnership Alum » The college access and success field is now old enough that classes of students we’ve supported have graduated and are now...
Monday, July 6, 2020 How On Point for College is Keeping Its Summer Programming on Track » Above: Students who participated in the On Point for College Summer Internship program in years past. (Photos via On Point...
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