By: Cherish Golden This blog continues our series highlighting financial aid policies and opportunities that are specific to Indigenous students. Here, we focus on 39 funding opportunities for Indigenous students in five Pacific and West …
Theories of Change in a Research-Practice Partnership
By: Kathryn Boonstra As a research-practice partnership, SSTAR Lab engages with program leaders and practitioners in ways that are quite different from traditional academic researchers. One role we may play, particularly when launching a partnership …
Q&A with Vice Provost of Enrollment Management
By: Bonniejean Zitske, Associate Director, SSTAR Lab This month I sat down with Derek Kindle, the Vice Provost of Enrollment Management and our number one supporter! Derek was the Director of Financial Aid when SSTAR …
Where Can you Find Indigenous Student Financial Aid Opportunities in the Mid-Atlantic Region?
By: Misti Jeffers This post continues our blog series sharing information on financial aid opportunities for Indigenous students across the United States. We highlight details of 24 funding opportunities we found across four Mid-Atlantic states …
SSTAR Lab Joins National Research Center Studying Rural Students’ College Access
By: Bonniejean Zitske Why do college-going rates in rural communities lag behind non-rural areas, even though their high school completion rates are equal to or higher than those in non-rural areas? Well, that’s a great, …
An Introduction to the Wisconsin Teacher Pledge
By: Kathryn Boonstra The teacher labor market may be more front-of-mind for everyday Americans today, in the aftermath of COVID-19, than any other time in recent history. While initial fears of a mass exodus of …
3 Insights from ECMC Foundation’s 2024 CTE Leadership Collaborative Convening
By: Misti Jeffers In late September, I attended the ECMC Foundation’s 2024 Career and Technical Education Leadership Collaborative (CTE LC) Convening, an annual opportunity for all past and current CTE LC Fellows (500+!) to convene …
Should I stay or should I go: How often do first-time, full-time college freshman leave their home state for college?
By: Jared Colston With overall numbers of high school graduates projected to decline nationally, higher education professionals fear this “demographic cliff” will result in a postsecondary “enrollment cliff.” Policy debates at the state level often …
Navigating Indigenous Student Financial Aid Opportunities in New England
By: Cherish Golden, Misti Jeffers, & Gresham Collom In a recent All My Relations podcast episode, when asked “Why college for Indigenous students,” Dr. Bryan Brayboy (Lumbee), stated “I’m convinced not all Native people should …
Tracking the Return to Loan Repayment
By: Nick Hillman For over three years—between March 2020 and September 2023—monthly payments on certain federal student loans were paused. The pause ended nearly a year ago, and many researchers and policy organizations want to …