By: Cherish Golden Over the last year, the SSTAR Lab has been taking an inventory of all financial aid opportunities available to Indigenous students at the state-, system-, and postsecondary institution-level. Why? Because there is currently …
Policy and Funding
New SSTAR Lab Report and Dashboard Show Differences in State Community College Funding Models
By: Amberly Dziesinski Over the past 6 months, our team has been combing through state policy documents to better understand how community colleges are funded. We aimed to identify if, and how, states fund three …
Which 5 Midwest States have State-Level Financial Aid for Indigenous Students?
By: Gresham Collom, PhD, University of Minnesota Oneewe (thank you – Munsee) for reading our monthly Indigenous Student Financial Aid Opportunities blog series! This is a space for us to share updates on our project, …
Equity Funding Analysis in Higher Ed: Insights from K-12
By: Leslie Orrantia With similar disparities in student outcomes across secondary and postsecondary sectors, states are increasingly turning to K-12 to ask what lessons may inform higher education finance for more equitable distribution of resources. …
CARES Act Funding Allocations
The following dashboard presents data from the U.S. Department of Education’s CARES Act allocation table with the most recent institution-level data from the College Scorecard. The purpose of this tool is to help disseminate information …