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What a year. In the 364 days since we launched @swiftstudents, today's students have been navigating #COVID19 and the accompanying challenges.
@SHSFunds partnered with #highered orgs to ensure students could learn about financial aid appeals -- and more than 70,000 did!
@SHSFunds partnered with #highered orgs to ensure students could learn about financial aid appeals -- and more than 70,000 did!
Our partners, esp. @nasfaa @NCANetwork @SupportGenHope @hope4college, ensured constant feedback + inspiration from students, financial aid officers, and college counselors across 20+ focus groups.
For @swiftstudents 1st birthday🎂, I reread my notes.
shs.foundation/swiftstudent
For @swiftstudents 1st birthday🎂, I reread my notes.
shs.foundation/swiftstudent
Our best features in @swiftstudents emerged from the focus groups.
One financial aid officer focus groups organized by @nasfaa produced the following features.
⭐️Student name + ID # in header
⭐️Prompt to use school email address
⭐️"Table" in childcare allowance request
One financial aid officer focus groups organized by @nasfaa produced the following features.
⭐️Student name + ID # in header
⭐️Prompt to use school email address
⭐️"Table" in childcare allowance request
Listened to @EAB's podcast episode on helping students graduate with less #debt and the complexities of #financialaid in #highered. A few important takeaways: /1
1) #Finaid offices that are not housed within Student Affairs, Student Life, or a Registrar's Office does not serve students well. #Finaid is an integral component of student success, academically and beyond. Integrating principles of #finaid into student life and academic /2
advising can help students make academic choices that minimizes potentially harmful impacts to their funding eligibility /3
🚨 New working paper on financial aid for college! 🚨
Link:
rand.org/pubs/working_p…
A quick summary in this #thread...
Link:
rand.org/pubs/working_p…
A quick summary in this #thread...
This paper looks at two-year college students who have the greatest financial need, and finds that a grant of around $1,000 increased rates of degree completion over the following three years by about 1-2 percentage points, from a baseline of 19% completion.
The research design is a regression discontinuity using a cutoff in the date of filing the FAFSA. Wisconsin allocates aid first-come first-served among financially eligible applicants. More details on this and supplementary strategies, in the paper.
