Tag: Financial Aid
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Audio Postcard: Why Get Financial Aid?
The purpose of financial aid is to support students in navigating the funding of their college costs and providing the information in accessing such things as grants or loans. The educational opportunity program, or EOP, provides the access of higher education for underrepresented college students in some form of aid. By understanding how to apply…
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Hispanic lawmakers’ DREAM Act protest
April 15, 2013 As an act of solidarity, the Senate Latino Conference voted against the Education, Labor and Family Assistance (ELFA) budget bill package because it failed to include the DREAM Act. The New York state DREAM Act would make undocumented students who have earned a high school diploma or GED eligible for state financial…