Sign In | Join NCAN
Latest News
Filter news by category:

Read the latest from NCAN, our members, Capitol Hill, and the broader college access and success field.

Displaying page 8 of 9
 |<   <<   <  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9

Archived Blogs (2017 and older)
Wednesday, May 11, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Wednesday, May 11, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Your Scholarship Program – Is It Effective? »
By Colette Hadley , Director of Consulting Services    If you work at a fou...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Voices of FAFSA Filers Heard on FSA ID »
By Carrie Warick , Director of Policy and Partnerships At the end of April, the White House announced that FSA ID, the...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
NCAN Members Lead College Signing Day Celebrations Across Country »
By Amina Anderson Pringle , Member Services Manager  ...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Lessons Learned from "Managing the Data-Driven Organization" »
Bill DeBaun, Program Analyst   Two weeks ago, the second annual Do Good Data conference was held in Chicago. The...
Friday, May 6, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Chewing On a Tough Data Problem? NCAN's Idea Incubators Are Here to Help »
It started with an idea we’ve heard over and over again: NCAN members find tremendous benefit in being in the same room to...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Aid Package Timing under Early FAFSA: before April 17, but not December »
Carrie Warick , Director of Partnerships and Policy On April 12, U.S. Education Undersecretary Ted Mitchell asked col...
Monday, May 2, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
SAP: Don’t Let It Become an Equity Issue »
By Carrie Warick , Director of Partnerships and Policy Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) is an often overlooked e...
Thursday, April 28, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Program Profile: Denver Scholarship Foundation »
By Liz Glaser - Graduate Research Assistant Placed-based scholarships typically focus on helping students in one sch...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
NCAN Joins 14 Partners on Pell Grant Recipient Data Collection Recs »
Carrie Warick, Director of Partnerships and Policy NCAN has long advocated for better information to help students de...
Monday, April 18, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
67 Cities Apply for FAFSA Challenge Grants »
By Sara Melnick, Deputy Director NCAN is pleased to announce that 67 of 118 invited U.S. cities applied for the FAFSA...
Thursday, April 14, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Program Profile: Virginia SOAR »
By Liz Glaser - Graduate Research Assistant  College Savings Accounts (CSAs,) 529 Accounts (529s), and other sim...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Data Resource Roundup, Vol. 3 »
Bill DeBaun, Program Analyst Welcome to the third edition of the  Data Resource Roundup! In this series we will...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
More Progress on Simplifying the FAFSA for Students and Schools »
By Lauren Asher, President, The Institute for College Access & Success This post originally appeared April 7 on Th...
Monday, March 28, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
NCAN Releases Data and Evaluation Toolkit »
By Bill DeBaun, Program Analyst  Exciting news for NCAN members this week: NCAN’s Data and Evaluation Toolkit...
Monday, March 28, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
NCAN Students Featured at U.S. Dept of Education Event Championing Completion »
By Kim Cook, Executive Director  Three NCAN member-program students shared their experiences last week during a...
Monday, March 28, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Detroit Announces Free Community College Tuition Program »
By Elizabeth Morgan, Director of External Relations  On March 22, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced that gra...
Friday, March 25, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
The Oakland Promise: An Experimental New Program »
By Liz Glaser – Graduate Research Assistant  In Oakland, California, Mayor Libby Schaaf recently decided it was t...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
A Letter from Data Nerds to Tech Geeks »
Carrie Warick, Director of Partnerships and Policy Last fall, the U.S. Department of Education released an unprecedente...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Research on Early Awareness Strategies »
By Carrie  Warick, Director of Partnerships and Policy   Today, NCAN releases our first major effort in...
Friday, March 11, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Program Profile: Oklahoma's Promise »
By Liz Glaser – Graduate Research Assistant In Oklahoma, the state legislature and higher education authorities have...
Thursday, March 10, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
NCAN at SXSWedu: Day 3 Recap »
Hello from Austin, Texas, where I’m in attendance at SXSWedu for the second year in a row. SXSWedu is a hybrid of a conf...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
NCAN at SXSWedu: Day 2 Recap »
Bill DeBaun, Program Analyst   Hello from Austin, Texas, where I’m in attendance at SXSWedu for the seco...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
NCAN at SXSWedu: Day 1 Recap »
Bill DeBaun, Program Analyst   Hello from Austin, Texas, where I’m in attendance at SXSWedu for the second year...
Monday, March 7, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
NCAN Challenges Cities to Raise FAFSA Completion Rates by 5% »
By Elizabeth Morgan, Director of External Relations Today, NCAN announces the FAFSA Completion Challenge Grant to s...
Monday, February 22, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Office of Federal Student Aid Considers 3 Improvements to FSA ID »
By Elizabeth Morgan , Director of External Relations   Last fall, NCAN began receiving complaints in volume from...
Friday, February 19, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
NCES Proposes Including Pell Students’ Outcomes in IPEDS »
Bill DeBaun, Program Analyst There’s exciting news out of the U.S. Department of Education this week that will cheer a...
Thursday, February 18, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
#ActiveAdvocacy: Launching a Coalition »
By Karissa Anderson and Faith Sandler Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis Toward the close of Missouri’s 2015 legis...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Early FAFSA Blog Series: Breaking Down the Change »
  By Elizabeth Morgan , Director of External Relations We know big changes are coming for FAFSA this year: A...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
2016 Spring Training to Focus on Data »
By Amina Anderson Pringle , Member Services Manager How do you know your college access and success strategies are suc...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
2016 Annual Conference: Call for Presenters »
By Sara Melnick , Deputy Director Have an effective practice or research to share? NCAN is seeking session presenter...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
President Proposes Pell Grant Expansion »
By Carrie Warick , Director of Partnerships and Policy The National College Access Network applauds the Obama Admini...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
E-Learning Is For You »
By MorraLee Keller , Director of Technical Assistance NCAN wants to remind our members, friends and followers that we...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
Friday, February 12, 2016   (0 Comments - view/add)
7 Ways to Measure the Success of Early FAFSA »
By Elizabeth Morgan , Director of External Relations In the scramble to be ready for the switch to early FAFSA start...

Displaying page 8 of 9
 |<   <<   <  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9