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How Colleges Can Address Financial Aid Staff Fatigue

Staff fatigue is reaching its breaking point as staffing shortages in financial aid offices have created challenges, such as long wait times, lack of knowledge and disintegrating student support.
January 19, 2022
Education
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How Student Affairs and Financial Aid Offices Can Work Together

For most universities, student affairs and financial aid are completely separate functions—yet the two share a common purpose. After all, both exist to help students make the most of their college experience.
March 4, 2022
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How Money Anxiety Disorder Affects College Students

What is money anxiety disorder and how can colleges help their students cope?
March 10, 2022
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Housing Insecurity Definition: Understanding Student Homelessness

What is housing insecurity and how do we build programs to address it?
February 3, 2022
Education
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HEERF III Guidance is Here

3 Important HEERF III Considerations
May 14, 2021
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Emergency Aid, HEERF, and Boosting Enrollment

As the dust settles from an unprecedented year in American higher education, new research is helping institutions understand the extent of COVID-19’s impact on enrollment.
July 26, 2021
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Financial aid is from Mars, Student Affairs is from Venus

Facilitating partnership between two critical parts of the institution
October 4, 2021
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Emergency Aid for Dual-Enrolled Students

Recognizing the unmet need of dual enrollment students, Compton College partnered with Believe in Students and Edquity to offer emergency aid to this vulnerable population.
May 12, 2022
Education
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