Report

Money Matters: How Financial Aid Affects Nontraditional Students in Community Colleges

Examining federal, state, and institutional programs, the paper presents a framework for understanding challenges to securing comprehensive financial assistance for low-income working students. The paper identifies promising approaches for supplementing student financial aid based on a range of programs implemented in the past and planned for the future. It also raises issues that bear consideration in designing a program that would be both effective in ways that can be measured through random assignment studies and replicable.

Source
Partner Resources
National/International
National
Topics/Subtopics
Employment
Education and Training
Post-secondary Education
Supportive Services
Child Care
TANF Program Administration
Publication Date
2003-07-01