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Author(s):College Foundation of North Carolina
Title:Transfer students: Planning your successful college transfer
Source:http://www.cfnc.org/home/sc/pdf/transfer_studen...
Date:2006
Organization:College Foundation of North Carolina
Short Description:This article explains an effective process for students to follow when transfering.
Annotation:This article offers helpful tips and guidelines for students to follow when transfering from a two-year to a four-year institution, a four-year to a four-year institution, or a four-year to a two-year institution. Financial aid assistance for transfer students are also explained. Some of the information is specific to North Carolina collegiate institutions.
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2006-2007 National directory of scholarships, internships, and fellowships for Latino youth
Adventures in education: For college students
Adventures in education: For parents
Education a Tu Alcance (Spanish Version)
Hacia Adelante - Pathways to College - A Guide for Latino Families
Is college right for your child?: How to weigh the pros and cons
Break down the bill: What's it going to cost?
Tips for finding a college match: Characteristics your child should consider
College access for the working poor: Overcoming burdens to succeed in higher education
Indiana's 21st century scholars: A new community college system and college prep curriculum are improving the state's position
Post-secondary education options for low-income students
Addressing the needs of adult learners
The College Dream: A Guide for Parents
Top 10 tips for college admissions and financial aid
Fund Your Future: Student Financial Aid Workbook
Federal Student Aid (FSA)
Financing graduate education: A guide for prospective students
Inside the admissions process: What happens to your child's applications?
Early college planning pays big dividends: Louisiana
What works in student retention
Statewide administration of the ACT: A key component in improving student preparation for college and work
Essential elements of engagement: High expectations and high support
College tools for schools
The community college transfer calculator: Identifying the course-taking patterns that predict transfer to a four-year institution
Fulfilling the commitment: Recommendations for reforming federal student aid
Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10
Indiana Latino Institute, Inc.
Bridges to opportunity for underprepared adults: A state policy guide for community college leaders
Think college? Me? Now?
Measuring up 2008: Online state report cards
Student aversion to borrowing: Who borrows and who doesn't
The effectiveness of student aid policies: What the research tells us
Federal Aid First (Spanish Version)
2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet
2009-10 FAFSA on the web worksheet (Spanish Version)
The iron triangle: College presidents talk about costs, access and quality
Financial aid in theory and practice
Young lives on hold: The college dreams of undocumented students
Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education
My future, my way: How to go, how to pay
From assets to school outcomes: How finances shape children's perceived possibilities and intentions
10 New higher education ideas for a new Congress
Postsecondary education spending priorities for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Trends in college spending: Where does the money come from? Where does it go?
Funding education beyond high school: The guide to federal student aid 2009-10 (Spanish language version)
Helping foster youth and wards of the court complete the FAFSA
2007-08 National postsecondary student aid study (NPSAS:08): Student financial aid estimates for 2007-08
CollegeAnswer.com
Window of opportunity: Targeting federal grant aid to students with the lowest incomes
Consider college now! A handbook for students in middle school and junior high school
Do loans increase college access and choice? Examining the introduction of universal student loans
College planning resource directory
Ed Fund
The Student Guide for High School Seniors/College Students
Scholarships for Hispanics
New England Journal of Higher Education
Financial aid myths
Financial Literacy for You (FLY)
Is college opportunity slipping away? Parents and the public voice concerns about higher education access and affordability
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: Second report
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
Policies paved the way: Early college innovation in North Carolina
2009-10 Directory of colleges cooperating with the SAT program fee-waiver service
Dual credit in Indiana: Bridging the gap between high school and college
Cost perceptions and college-going for low-income students
Opportunity adrift: Our flagship universities are straying from their public mission
Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run
FY 2011 budget proposal: Thoughts and recommendations for increasing college access and success
Can I get a little advice here? How an overstretched high school guidance system is undermining students' college aspirations
The American Freshman: National norms for Fall 2009
Student Financial Survey: Baseline Results (2001)
Post-secondary access and student financial aid in Canada: Current knowledge and research gaps
eCampusTours.com: Paying for College
The College Place
Assets and liabilities, educational expectations, and children's college degree attainment
Paying for college success: An introduction to the performance-based scholarship demonstration
Providing effective financial aid assistance to students from foster care and unaccompanied homeless youth
Federal Student Aid: Loan Programs Factsheet
Federal Student Aid: Loan Programs Factsheet (Spanish language version)
Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP)
Federal Student Aid at a Glance
Federal Student Aid at a Glance (Spanish language version)
Access and persistence: Fall 2009
Report on the meta-analysis of post-secondary institutional graduate surveys
The role of guidance in post-secondary planning
Making ends meet: The 2001–2002 student financial survey
The Millennium Bursary in British Columbia: Exploring its impact: Summary report (2004)
The 2003 Ontario College Applicant Survey
State and community-based promise programs: Early commitments of financial aid for college
Postsecondary education: Cultural, scholastic and economic drivers
“Why access matters” revisited: A review of the latest research
Factors affecting the use of student financial assistance by first nations youth
Future to Discover: Early Implementation Report
Future to discover: Early implementation report -- Executive summary
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
Cost, commitment, and attainment in higher education: An international comparison
National opportunity to learn campaign: Lost opportunity: A 50 state report on the oppotunity to learn in America
Impact of college rankings on institutional decision making: Four country case studies
College portrait of undergraduate education (search and comparison tool for participating college and universities by state)
Working learners: Educating our entire workforce for success in the 21st century
IDA pays: A missing piece of the access puzzle
Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in the United States: Fall 2008 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2007-08, and 12-month enrollment 2007-08
Inequalities at the outset: Identifying factors that affect parents' perceptions of paying for college
Strategies to empower low-income and minority students in gaining admission to and paying for college
Lessons from Achieving the Dream for federal efforts to improve college completion rates
Making high school students into "college material"
A clear and present danger to institutional and student success: A training model for embedding student loan default aversion within strategic enrollment management
How America pays for college 2009: A national study by Gallup and Sallie Mae
State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2010-11
Cohort default rate resources
Accounting for socioeconomic differences in delaying the transition to college
Examining the role of summer bridge programs in promoting college readiness and completion: Lessons learned from Texas' developmental summer bridges
Scholarships for students regardless of immigration status: 2009-2010
Tapping HSI-STEM funds to improve Latina and Latino Access to STEM professions
Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district
Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
Trends in student financing of undergraduate education: Selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08
Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves
Trends in for-profit postsecondary education: Enrollment, prices, student aid and outcomes
Forward thinking teens: The effects of college costs on adolescent risky behavior
Back on track to college: A Texas school district leverages state policy to put dropouts back on the path to success
A stronger nation through higher education: Why Americans must achieve a "big goal" for college attainment
Dream vs. reality: An analysis of potential Dream Act beneficiaries
Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in the United States: Fall 2009 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2008-09, and 12-month enrollment 2008-09
Finishing the first lap: The cost of first-year student attrition in America's four-year colleges and universities
Web tables - trends in graduate borrowing: selected years, 1995-96 to 2007-08
No time to waste: Policy recommendations for increasing college completion
Higher education web portals: Serving state and student transfer needs
Ensuring America's future: Federal policy and Latino college completion
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
Degree completion beyond institutional borders: Responding to the new reality of mobile and non-traditional learners
Lumina Foundation focus: The cost quandary: Hard times intensify the nation's urgent need for college graduates
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
The new net price calculator for college website
Paying and saving for college
College Resources for Parents
The Condition of Education 2010
After the FAFSA: How red tape can prevent eligible students from receiving financial aid
Pay scale: Which colleges are worth your investment (college cost comparison tool)
Southern Regional Education Board: Moving Ahead: State progress reports on Challenge to Lead goals
Financial Aid Shopping Sheet
GraduateTutor.com: Your scholarship directory
Balancing passion and practicality: The role of debt and major on students' financial outcomes: Executive Summary
Denied? The impact of student debt on the ability to buy a house
The role of two-year institutions in four-year success
Lost without a map: A survey about students' experiences navigating the financial aid process
Trends in college pricing 2012
Regardless of the cost, college still matters
Ahead of the curve: State success in the developmental education initiative
College Abacus
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
Can scholarships alone help students succeed? Lessons from two New York City community colleges
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
Promoting educational opportunity: The Pell Grant program at community colleges
2008-09 Baccalaureate and beyond longitudinal study (B&B:08/09)
Charting pathways to completion for low-income community college students
Staying on track: Early findings from a performance-based scholarship program at the University of New Mexico
Scaling and sustaining: State progress in the developmental education initiative
The distribution of grants and scholarships by race
Including more student voices in higher education policymaking: Rising tuitions and student debts mean rising stakes for college students
Advocacy in action toolkit
Find the best colleges for you: Focus on information that matters (English and Spanish Versions)
Good policy, good practice II: Improving outcomes and productivity in higher education: A guide for policymakers
Preserving the federal Pell Grant Program
Completing the mission: A pilot study of veteran students' progress toward degree attainment in the post 9/11 era
Trends in college pricing 2011
The role of Pell Grants in access, persistence and completion
Information constraints and financial aid policy
Dramatically bringing down the cost of education with OER: How open education resources unlock the door to free learning
Financial trends in public and private nonprofit institutions
2011 Year in review: Global changes in tuition fee policies and student assistance
Does federal student aid raise tuition? New evidence on for-profit colleges
Why policymakers should care about children's savings
Illinois community college: Focus on the finish: A report to Governor Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly
Prison vs. Princeton
The roll of Pell grants in access, persistence and completion
Hard choices ahead: Performance and policy in Texas higher education
Moving on up: How tuition tax breaks increasingly favor the upper middle-class
Tuition and Fees in the West 2011-12
State HIgher Education Finance 2011
Opportunity for action: Preparing youth for 21st century livelihoods
Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
Overcoming obstacles to college attendance and degree completion: Toward a pro-college savings agenda
The great cost shift: How higher education cuts undermine the future middle class
2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions
Promoting quality individualized learning plans: A "how to guide" focused on the high school years
Certificates: Gateway to gainful employment and college degrees
Driving K-12 reform through a college-access and success agenda
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
Common Core implementation workbook
Boosting postsecondary education performance
Space availability survey results: 2012
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos in health professions and related programs by academic level
NASSGAP - National Association of State Student Grant & Aid Programs: State data quick check
Measuring efficiency in the community college sector
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth: A skilled, prepared workforce
The best of two worlds: Lessons from a community college-community organization collaboration to increase student success
College Board swing state education survey
Rethinking higher education business models: Steps toward a disruptive innovation approach to understanding and improving higher education outcomes
Sending veterans to school: Fast facts on the post-9/11 GI Bill
Latino college completion in 50 states: Executive summary
Opportunity road: The promise and challenge of America's forgotten youth
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
The 8th annual AP report to the nation
Black male student success in higher education: A report from the national black male college achievement study
Open educational resources: Tools to help 21st century students achieve their postsecondary eduation goals and keep America competitive
High debt, low information: A survey of student loan borrowers
BigFuture: By the College Board
Tying funding to community college outcomes: Models, tools, and recommendations for states
Grading student loans
Survey of state tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities: 2010-11
Transfer & mobility: A national view of pre-degree student movement in postsecondary institutions
Student aid simplification: Looking back and looking ahead
Trends in student aid 2011
Whether and how to use state tests to measure student achievement in a multi-state randomized experiment: An empirical assessment based on four recent evaluations
Innovation at scale: How Virginia community colleges are collaborating to improve developmental education and increase student success
Hidalgo early college district toolkit
Operation College Promise
Cheap for whom? How much education costs taxpayers
A better measure of skills gaps: Utilizing ACT skill profile and assessment data for strategic skill research
Lifting the fog on inequitable financial aid policies: A companion brief to priced out: How the wrong financial aid policies hurt low-income students
Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model
National postsecondary enrollment trends: Before, during, and after the great recession
The impacts of state performance funding systems on higher education institutions: Research literature review and policy implications
Still on the sidelines: What role will higher education trustees play in higher education reform?
What can we learn from law school? Legal education reflects issues found in all of higher education
Top ten higher education policy issues for 2011
Designing STEM pathways through early college: Ohio's metro early college high school
Making every diploma count: Using extended-year graduation rates to measure student success
Driving innovation from the middle: Middle-skill jobs in the American South's economy
One year out: Findings from a national survey among members of the high school graduating class of 2010
Strategies for success in career development: The career coach curriculum guide
Getting through: Higher education's plan to increase the college completion rates of Boston public schools graduates
The case for change in college admissions
Implementing common core state standards and assessments: A workbook for state and district leaders
New path to federal student aid for those with no high school diploma or GED
Improving student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions-The perspective of leaders from baccalaureate-granting institutions
Online and hybrid course enrollment and performance in Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
Six year attainment, persistence, transfer, retention, and withdrawal rates of students who began postsecondary education in 2003-04
National Governor's Association: Complete to Compete Resources
Critical choices: How colleges can help students and families make better decisions about private loans
41st annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2009-2010 Academic year
Percentage of states with alignment between K-12 and higher education standards
Think College Indiana!
Transforming the rural south: A roadmap to improving rural education
National and regional accreditation information
Completing college: A national view of student attainment rates
Reverse transfer: A national view of student mobility from four-year to two-year institutions
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
The student debt crisis
Preventing abuse in federal student aid: Community college practices
The earning power of recent graduates from Virginia's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
The earning power of graduates from Tennessee's colleges and universities: How are graduates from different degree programs doing in the labor market?
Forging new pathways: The impact of the breaking through initiative in michigan
2012: Closing the expectations gap: 50-state progress report on the alignment of K-12 policies and practice with the demands of college and careers
College Greenlight
Employees in postsecondary institutions, fall 2011 and student financial aid, academic year 2010-11 - first look
Broadening the benefits of dual enrollment: Reaching underachieving and underrepresented students with career-focused programs
Keeping the promise of opportunity: Redesigning financial aid to support post-secondary completion among low-income young adults
Economic Diversity Among Selective Colleges: Measuring the Enrollment Impact of "No-loan" Programs
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
The economic case for higher education
National student aid profile: Overview of 2012 federal programs
California's economic payoff: Investing in college access and completion
How does institutional grant aid impact college choice?
Is college affordable? In search of a meaningful definition
Postsecondary institutions and price of attendance in 2011-12, degrees and other awards conferred: 2010-11, and 12-month enrollment: 2010-11
New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
SREB State Data Exchange: 40 years and still counting: 2008-2009 highlights
Learning communities for students in developmental reading: An impact study at Hillsborough Community College
International Education Financial Aid: International Financial Aid and College Scholarship Search
A sharper focus on technical workers: How to educate and train for the global economy
Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time
Postsecondary education and training as we know it is not enough: Why we need to leaven postsecondary strategy with more attention to employment policy, social policy, and career and technical education in high school
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
MatchCollege.com
Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge
Citizenship now! Information for undocumented students
Course-taking patterns, policies, and practices in developmental education in the California community colleges
Something's got to give: California can't improve college completions without rethinking developmental education at its community colleges
On track to complete? A taxonomy of beginning community college students and their outcomes 3 years after enrolling: 2003-04 through 2006
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
The impact of loan repayment rates on minority students
How America saves for college: 2010
GetMeToCollege.org (How to prepare, pay for, and succeed in college for first-generation college students)
Yes we can: The Schott 50-state report on public education and black males
Strong foundations: The state of postsecondary data systems
Education pays 2010
The progress of education reform: Investing in college completion
Achieving ambitious goals: Case studies of scaling up programs for advancing low-skilled adults
Public school choice in the District of Columbia: A descriptive analysis
Institutional variation in credential completion: Evidence from Washington State Community and Technical colleges
How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Full Report)
How students are making it: Perspectives on getting through college from recent graduates of the Boston Public Schools (Short Version)
En camino (on our way): Educational toolkit for families
On our way: Educational toolkit for families (A program instructional guide)
Analysis of preliminary FY2009 2-year cohort default rates
The Division III financial aid reporting program: Review results 2005-06 through 2010-11: Executive summary
Opportunities for efficiency and innovation: A primer on how to cut college costs
Trends in student financing of graduate and first professional education: Selected years 1995-96 to 2007-08
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
DOD Education benefits: Increased oversight of tuition assistance program is needed
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
Parents' guide to student success
The College Access Challenge Grant (CACG) program
Trends in college pricing 2010
Protecting the federal investment in higher education: The gainful employment rule
The rise of college student borrowing
College planning for undocumented students
Class differences: Online education in the United States, 2010
GetMeToCollege.org: For undocumented students
Community colleges and higher education: How do state transfer and articulation policies impact student pathways?
What is the price of college? Total, net, and out of pocket prices in 2007-08
Transfer and articulation policies
Top 10 higher education state policy issues for 2011
Slip sliding away: An anxious public talks about today's economy and the American Dream
A model for success: CART's linked learning program increases college enrollment
Cracking the student aid code: Parent and student perspectives on paying for college
The social life of college information: Relationships and experiences as tools for enhancing college decision making
Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions
New strategies in delivering education IDAs: Rethinking program design
Institutional transfer and the management of risk in higher education
Loan forgiveness for public service employees
Getting with the program: Community college students need access to federal loans
Trends in college pricing 2009
Trends in student aid 2009
A new goal for America's high schools: College preparation for all
Rethinking the middleman: Federal student loan guarantee agencies
A profile of successful Pell Grant recipients: Time to Bachelor's degree and early graduate school enrollment
Enhancing college student success through developmental education
How colleges organize themselves to increase student persistence: Four-year institutions (College Board study on student retention)
FinAid: Income-based repayment
The price of knowledge: Access and student finance in Canada -- Third edition
Canada's Tuition and Education Tax Credits
The impact of bursaries: Debt and student persistence in post-secondary education
Funding university education in Ontario: Ontario University applicant survey report
The millennium bursary in New Brunswick: Impact on debt and persistence
Ten Things you need to know about financial support for post-secondary students in Canada
Canadian college student finances: Third edition (2005)
Work less, study more, & succeed: How financial supports can improve postsecondary success
Does money matter? II
Canadian college student finances
Assessing Canada’s student aid need assessment policies
Putting money on the table: Information, financial aid, and access to college
Drowning in debt: The emerging student loan crisis
The facts: Postsecondary access and success
Tuition and fees in public higher education in the West: 2009-10
Federal Student Aid: Grant Programs Factsheet
Federal Student Aid: Grant Programs Factsheet (Spanish language version)
Off to College.com
Measuring student achievement at postsecondary institutions
Student loan forgiveness programs: An evolving workforce development tool
ACE Online Information Center
Women and college savings: A survey on parental attitudes and practices
False fronts? Behind higher education's voluntary accountability systems
High school policy reform: A plan for success (California)
Education reform starts early: Lessons from New Jersey's PreK-3rd reform efforts
U.Select - Your Guide to College Transfer
State higher education finance: 2007
Frequently asked questions regarding public service loan forgiveness
Loan forgivness for public service employees
Becoming credit-wise: What students (and you!) should know
Making the transition to four-year institutions: Academic preparation and transfer
38th Annual survey report on state-sponsored student financial aid: 2006-2007 Academic year
Sticker shock quiz: How much does college really cost?
Helping community college students cope with financial emergencies: Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund financial aid programs
What are they and how do I use them? Strategies and tools to increase and improve filing of the federal Hope and Lifetime Learning education tax credits by low-income filers
Back to College (Back2College)
Grants for Individuals: Minorities
United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Scholarships
Woodrow Wilson Fellowships
Morris K. Udall Scholarship
EFC (Expected Family Contribution) Formula Guide, 2010-11
Education Finance Council
Colleges and universities expand efforts to improve access and affordability
Facts about college access and affordability
Counselors and Mentors Handbook on Federal Student Aid: A Guide for Those Helping Students Prepare for Postsecondary Education
Association of American Indian Affairs (AAIA)
The economics of higher education access in Indiana
Indiana college access funding organizations
What every college access practitioner should know about: Economic diversity in Indiana and U.S. colleges and universities
Characteristics and destinations of students who transfer: First report
Course-taking patterns and preparation for postsecondary education in California's public university systems among minority youth
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
The challenge to the states: Preserving college access and affordability in a time of crisis
The impact of increases in Pell Grant awards on college-going among lower income youth: Results from a natural experiment
College-ready students, student-ready colleges: An agenda for improving degree completion in postsecondary education
Indiana Next: A guide to life after high school
Indiana's independent colleges at a glance
Sallie Mae college answer: School search
Closing the expectations gap 2009: Fourth annual 50-state progress report on the alignment of high school policies with the demands of college and careers
Do increases in Pell and other grant awards increase college-going among lower income high school graduates? Evidence from a 'natural experiment'
Campus commons? What faculty, financial officers, and others think about controlling college costs
Squeeze play 2009: The public's views on college costs today
Grade retention: Achievement and mental health outcomes
The contract for college: A policy proposal to increase college access and affordability
Opportunity.gov
Educating English language learners at the high school level: A coherent approach to district- and school-level support
State early commitment programs: A contract for college success?
Putting kids on the pathway to college: How is your school doing? A college pathways rubric
The Condition of Latinos in education: 2008 Factbook
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
The other college: Retention and completion rates among two-year college students
USA Funds Unlock the Future
Dedicated funding for higher education: Alternatives for tough economic times
Accelerating Latino success at Texas border institutions: Possibilities and challenges
Better together: Realigning pre-college skills development programs to achieve greater academic success for adult learners
Trends in student aid 2008
National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education
Predicting different levels of academic success in college using high school GPA and ACT Composite score
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future
Federal student financial aid: A national profile of programs in Title IV of the higher education act
College access and tax credits
California policy options to accelerate Latino success in higher education
Policy recommendations for reauthorization of NCLB and HEA
Pasantías y otras formas de adquirir experiencia profesional (Exploring careers)
Cómo obtener su GED (How to obtain your GED)
Repayment frequently asked questions
Federal student aid: Graduate and professional studies
Creating options 2007: Financial aid for individuals with disabilities
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA)
College is possible: A guide for undocumented students
Council for Adult and Experiential Learning
Adult learners in higher education: Barriers to success and strategies to improve results
Opening doors to earning credentials: Impressions of community college access and retention from low-wage workers
Helping Teens Succeed
Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans Website and Secondary School Toolkit - English
Financialaidtips.org
College: Making It Happen
StateVoucher.org (Education and Training Vouchers)
Get-recruited.com
The Kalamazoo Promise
Adding it up: State challenges for increasing college access and success
The Sallie Mae Fund
A commitment to America's future: Responding to the crisis in mathematics and science education
Voces (Voices): A profile of today's Latino college students
Frequently asked questions about college access and success
Beyond myths: The growth and diversity of Asian American college freshmen: 1971-2005
Unmasking the effects of student engagement on college grades and persistence
National Council of La Raza
Texas public universities' data and performance report: Part A
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Texas: Key education facts and figures 2006
Education watch California: Key facts and figures
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2004
Education watch Washington: Key education facts and figures 2006
Community college student success: What institutional characteristics make a difference
Achievement trap: How America is failing millions of high-achieving students from lower-income families
Trends in student aid 2006
The federal government and the student aid partnership
Reclaiming the American dream
Moving into town - and moving on: The community college in the lives of traditional age students
Recession, retrenchment, and recovery: State higher education funding and student financial aid volume II
The college and financial aid guide for: AB540 undocumented immigrant students
The future of private loans: Who is borrowing and why?
Do merit scholarships promote college access? Evidence from two states
The contributions of economics to the study of college access and success
State tuition, fees, and financial assistance policies for public colleges and universities, 2005-06
Failing grades? American families and their college savings efforts
InternationalScholarships.com
Promise abandoned: How policy choices and institutional practices restrict college opportunity
Segal AmeriCorps Education Award
Documenting the shift to merit
Turning college and career planning into family communication
NDSFA: Fundamental assumptions and aims underlying the principles of federal financial aid to students
NDSFA: Getting the most out of federal aid spending -- encouraging colleges and universities to promote the common good
The art of student retention
Doors of opportunity opening or closing: We are using tax credits and tuition discounts to appease middle-class voters instead of expanding educational opportunity
Need versus merit: Focusing student financial aid for diversity
Financial aid packaging for full-time, full-year, one institution dependent undergraduate students
Quality, affordability and access: Americans speak on higher education
Pathways to and through college: Linking policy with research and practice
GI bill education benefits
GI bill: A reality check
Education: Solving the GI bill mystery
Critical postsecondary education issues in Indiana
Helping equip teachers to answer students' questions on college knowledge
12 Ways adult students can pay for college
Exploring careers
Costs, prices, and affordability
Returning to learning: Adults' success in college is key to America's future
Emergency financial aid for community college students: Implementation and early lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund programs.
Narrowing the gaps in educational attainment: A policymaker's guide for assessing and responding to needs for community college services
Improving educational opportunties for students who work
Great schools: Countdown to college
Parents are too optimistic about scholarships
Graduating with debt: The biggest threat to young American's financial well-being?
Income and financial aid effects on persistence and degree attainment in public colleges
Federal Pell Grant program of the Higher Education Act: Background and reauthorization
Higher education, higher cost and higher debt: Paying for college in the future
Sallie Mae: First in my family scholarship
Catching the Dream
Lottery funded merit scholarships: Some lessons from the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program
Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children
Opening doors: Support success: Services that may help low-income students succeed in community college
Students with disabilities: Preparing for postsecondary education: Know your rights and responsibilities
What students pay for college: Changes in net price of college attendance between 1992-93 and 1999-2000
First generation college students: A literature review
State policy and community college-baccalaureate transfer
How families of low- and middle-income undergraduates pay for college: Full-time dependent students in 1999-2000
Global higher education rankings: Affordability and accessibility in comparative perspective
Paying for college: Changes between 1990 and 2000 for full-time dependent undergraduates
Policies in sync: Appropriations, tuition, and financial aid in higher education
Reorienting the HEA reauthorization to reflect what research-based knowledge says about what works
Preparing students for success in college
Held back: How student aid programs fail working adults
Education as crime prevention: Reinstating Pell Grant eligibility for the incarcerated
Foster care independence act of 1999 and John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program
A closer look at the President's proposal for changes in student assistance
Losing ground: A national status report on the affordability of American higher education
Decisions without direction: Career guidance and decision-making among American youth
A deficit of understanding: Confronting the funding crisis in higher education and the threat to low-income and minority access
Getting ready to pay for college: What students and their parents know about the cost of college tuition and what they are doing to find out
Lumina Foundation focus: Restricted access: The doors to higher education remain closed to many deserving students
Left behind: Unequal opportunity in higher education
Network news: Focus on finance policy, access, and affordability
Policy for progress: Reaffirming California higher education accessibility, affordability, and accountability into the 21st century
The access challenge: Rethinking the causes of the new inequality
Empty promises: The myth of college access in America
The student aid gauntlet: Making access to college simple and certain
College affordability: Overlooked long-term trends and recent 50 state patterns
Informing public policy: Financial aid and student persistence
Pell Grant recipients in selective colleges and universities
Persistence and attainment of beginning students with Pell Grants
Cultural barriers to incurring debt: An exploration of borrowing and impact on access to postsecondary education
TRIO Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MAEOPP)
College is possible
Education Commission of the States: Postsecondary Issues
NASSGAP Annual Survey Repository
Global debt patterns: An international comparison of student loan burdens and repayment conditions
The challenges of financial aid awareness and college access
Independent undergraduates: 1999-2000
Access and persistence: Winter 2006
ACSFA policy brief: The toolbox and student aid policy
FastWeb
National inventory of academic pathways
Policy on dual credit courses taught in high schools by high school faculty
Workbook of state affordability rates 2004
The state of college affordability in Indiana
Working their way through college: Student employment and its impact on the college experience
Cal-SOAP
Early college cost estimator
Family affiliation scholarships
Talbot's student planning book
Sallie Mae financial aid calculators
ACT financial aid need estimator
Sallie Mae: College answer