By: Kathryn Boonstra Paying for college involves navigating a complex landscape of federal, state, institutional, and private financial aid (“aid”). These types of aid differ in their eligibility criteria, funding sources, awarding procedures, and benefit …
Looking for Financial Aid Opportunities for Indigenous Students? – Introducing SSTAR Lab’s Upcoming Tool
By: Gresham Collom & Misti Jeffers Did you know Indigenous college students accounted for only 0.7% of enrolled college students in 2020 (Keo et al., 2021)? Indigenous Peoples in the United States have long experienced …
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. …
WI FAFSA Outreach Dashboard
This dashboard describes FAFSA filing rates and other characteristics of Wisconsin high schools for the purpose of identifying schools which may benefit from outreach efforts promoting FAFSA filing.
Pell Access and Outcomes Explorer
This tool aims to inform research and policy conversations on improving college access and success. Using data from the U.S. Department of Education, it examines college access and completion rates for Pell Grant recipients. Users …
College-Going Students in Wisconsin 2010-2019
In this project, we build an interactive map showing high school completion and college-going trends in Wisconsin from 2010 and 2019 at the county and the school level. In particular, we draw attention to the …
Student Loan Repayment Rates in Wisconsin
Previous work in this series has addressed student loan default rates, but default is an extreme event. To build a more comprehensive understanding of loan repayment, this post reports student loan repayment rates at Wisconsin …
Wisconsin Residents in Default on Student Loans
While most borrowers will not default on their student loans, the steep consequences of doing so makes default one of the most pernicious possible outcomes for student borrowers. To supplement our previous work highlighting school …
Default Rates Among Wisconsin Colleges and Universities
While previous posts in this series have focused on student borrowing, here we shift attention to one of the most pernicious outcomes student borrowers can experience: default, or failing to make agreed-upon payments towards their …
Debt at Graduation Among Wisconsin Colleges and Universities
Our previous work examined statewide and regional trends in student debt. In this post, we use data from the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard to see how debt varies across Wisconsin’s public, non-profit, and …