Even at colleges that try to keep tuition and fees under control, it’s other living expenses that often delay or derail adult students. A small but growing number of community colleges are looking beyond financial aid to help cover those expenses.
Here’s a look at how those colleges are connecting students with public benefits — and how your own institution could follow suit.
Student Aid
The law, signed 20 years ago today by President Bill Clinton, has had a complex impact on poverty — and on educational attainment, according to Amy Ellen Duke-Benfield, a policy analyst with the Center for Law and Social Policy.
Students
Skyline College is one of a small but growing number of institutions that look beyond financial aid to help ensure that living expenses don’t delay or derail adult students.
News
Under pressure to improve their completion rates, a number of institutions are turning to public benefits to help students cover their living expenses, and keep them in school.
News
In a pilot project on building programs to help students navigate government services, colleges came up with some creative solutions to the problems they encountered.