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Monday, January 3, 2022 Changes to the 2022-23 CSS Profile: Here’s What You Need to Know » Reading time: Five minutes In addition to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), some college-boun...
Monday, December 6, 2021 Here's the Biggest News from FSA's 2021 Training Conference » Reading time: 5 min. Each year, the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) hosts a training conference for financial...
Sunday, November 28, 2021 Lansing SAVEs in a BOLD Way » Reading time: 2 min. There’s no wrong door at BOLD Lansing. That was the intention set forth by the collection...
Monday, November 22, 2021 Class of 2022 FAFSA Cycle is Chaotic, Trending Upward in Fits and Spurts » Reading time: 3-4 min. For the last 20 months, the narrative around high school seniors’ FAFSA completion trends has...
Friday, November 19, 2021 Consejos para llenar el formulario FAFSA 2022-23 » Traducido por Karen Lopez Si usted ayuda a estudiantes y familias con el formulario Solicitud Gratuita de Ayuda Feder...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 College Affordability Fast Facts: Tuition Is Not Enough » Reading time: 5 min. There is tremendous ongoing political, policy, and media attention around whether and how Co...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 Tips for Filing the 2022-23 FAFSA » Reading time: 5 min. Completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is the key to unlocking fina...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021 North Carolina Model Offers Promising Statewide Approach to Driving FAFSA Completion » Reading time: Four minutes Takeaway: Using data-driven approaches, myFutureNC and the North Carolina State Educat...
Monday, October 18, 2021 NCAN’s FAFSA Tracker Returns for 5th Year Hoping for a Trendline Turnaround » Reading time: 4 min. Oct. 1 is a major milestone on every college access professional’s calendar because it’s opening...
Monday, September 27, 2021 Lessons Learned from NYC’s FAFSA Completion Efforts » Reading time: 4 min. Oct. 1 is just around the corner, and with it will arrive the FAFSA cycle for the 2022-23 ac...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021 Six Ways to Make FAFSA Completion a Community-Wide Effort » By Ralph Aiello, Director of School Counseling, Broward County (FL) Schools Reading time: Four minutes This p...
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 MCAN’s Strategies to Engage Students and Facilitate FAFSA Completion During the Summer – or Any Time » Reading time: 3-4 min. As of the writing of this blog post, FAFSA completions among high school seniors are down...
Monday, August 30, 2021 CSAs in California Receive Hearty Seed Deposit Increase » Reading time: 1 min. Earlier this summer, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 132, legislation that includ...
Monday, July 19, 2021 FAFSA Completion Declines Nearly 5%; Nation Loses 270K FAFSAs Since 2019 » Reading time: 5 min. Key Takeaways: Students must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Ai...
Monday, July 19, 2021 5 Noteworthy FAFSA Trends: New Federal Student Aid Data for 2018-19 and 2019-20 Cycles » Reading time: 6 min. After five years of declining total filers for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFS...
Thursday, May 27, 2021 'Sustaining the Movement:' CSA Programs Show Promising Growth in 2020 » Reading time: 2-3 min. Despite a pandemic and global economic downturn, children’s savings accounts (CSAs) saw...
Monday, May 17, 2021 Class of 2021 FAFSAs Gaining Ground, But Still Well Behind 2020 » Reading time: 3 min. Through April 30, the high school class of 2021 completed 112,000 fewer FAFSAs than the clas...
Monday, March 29, 2021 What to Know About Changes to Dependency Status and Custodial Parent Status on the Simplified FAFSA » Reading time: 7-8 min. By Mark Kantrowitz, President, Cerebly, Inc. This blog post complements the Feb. 11...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 The ABCs of CSAs – Design Elements and State Treasurer Takeaways » Reading time: 4 min. In a November 2019 report, the Center for Social Development (CSD) at Brown School at Washin...
Monday, March 22, 2021 FAFSAs Plummeted Last March; This Year, Different Trend? » Reading time: 3-4 min. The past two weeks have been rife with “a year later” retrospectives on the final days before...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 New FAFSA Will Include Automatic IRS Data Transfer » Reading time: 4-5 min. By Mark Kantrowitz, President, Cerebly, Inc. This blog post complements the Feb. 11...
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 NCAN Members Find Ways to Offer FAFSA Assistance, Despite COVID Barriers » Reading time: 4 min. Anyone in the college access and success space knows Free Application for Federal Student Ai...
Monday, March 1, 2021 A Quick Guide to Financial Aid Award Letters » Reading time: 5 min. Now that many students have been admitted to colleges and universities across the country, f...
Thursday, February 4, 2021 FAFSA Verification Remains a Hurdle for Students; Here’s What We Know » Reading time: 3 min. Anyone involved with helping students and families complete the Free Application for Federal...
Wednesday, February 3, 2021 CollegeTracks: Behind the Scenes of Financial Aid Awards » Reading time: 2 min. By Lindsey Barclay, Director of Virtual Advising & Infrastructure at CollegeTracks...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 CFPB Guides Introduce Common Metrics for Children’s Savings Accounts » Reading time: 2-3 min. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published two guides in October 2020 rel...
Monday, January 4, 2021 FAFSA Completions Bounce in December, Still Down 12.3% » FAFSA completions for the high school class of 2021 have lagged last year by double-digit percentages since October. But a...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020 College Board Opportunity Scholarships: Changes for the Class of 2022 » In 2018, College Board introduced the College Board Opportunity Scholarships (CBOS) program , which motivates students to...
Monday, December 7, 2020 Here's the Biggest News From the 2020 FSA Training Conference » The 2020 Federal Student Aid (FSA) Training Conference took place last week , and there were some announcements about cha...
Monday, November 23, 2020 Broward County Shares Successful Approach to Virtual FAFSA Support » By Jamese Carrell, Member Services Associate, and Bill DeBaun, Director of Data and Evaluation There has been signific...
Thursday, October 22, 2020 Get2College’s Advice for Planning and Hosting a Drive-In FAFSA Completion Event » Get2College staff members TJ Walker, Kierstan Dufour, and Shannon Grimsley. Photo (taken pre-pandemic) courtesy of Woodwar...
Thursday, October 8, 2020 College Board Offers $1,000 Scholarships for FAFSA Completion, a Chatbot for Support » The “Complete the FAFSA” step of the College Board Opportunity Scholarships (CBOS) program is designed to reward high sc...
Thursday, October 8, 2020 Our Future Is Stronger with Children’s Savings Accounts » By Neal Hegarty, Vice President for Programs, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Education is the single most important p...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 California 529 Plan Offers New Virtual Platform to Support CSA Programs » By Jamese Carrell, Member Services Associate, and Carm Saimbre, External Relations Associate In December 2019, Scholar...
Tuesday, September 8, 2020 Bounce in Summer FAFSAs Never Materialized; Summer Enrollment Down » Given the massive disruptions students experienced this past spring, it was plausible that we might see a bump in summer F...
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