Recently, our staff took 90 minutes for a “good news only” staff meeting amidst an application cycle harder than any other we have experienced (and if you’re wondering why, click here for...

This is all wrong. In any other year except worldwide pandemic in 2020, today would have been our application deadline at The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis. On this day, we should...

Just six weeks into the application season and The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis has already found it necessary to issue three alerts to all students, especially those applying to college for...

This year, the new and “simplified” Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is a nightmare. Though laudable in concept, a promised overhaul of the method and shortening of the form has...

This graph, excerpted from The Scholarship Foundation 2023 Equity Report, depicts total balances graduates of that year owed to The Scholarship Foundation. Starting with students first applying in 2015 (graduating class of...

By Trent Ball and Faith Sandler We have come over a way that with tears has been watered. -James Weldon Johnson, Lift Every Voice and Sing (authored in 1900 to celebrate Abraham...

The year has nearly ended, and these last days are a time of reflection for many. At The Scholarship Foundation, a beautiful story of the power of education ushers us into 2024...

  “For Mrs. Jones, hope was relational. It didn’t exist in the abstract. Hope confronts. It does not ignore pain, agony, or injustice. It is not a saccharine optimism that refuses to...

It already wasn’t fair. Affirmative action on the basis of race in admissions ended with the late June decision of the United States Supreme Court. Public mourning of “Affirmative Action” (as though...

Editor’s Note: Late last week, the Supreme Court of the United States issued decisions on two matters of great importance to the students and staff of The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis...

Today is Juneteenth, now a federal holiday but long a day of remembrance of emancipation from slavery. Yesterday, I heard a story about a boy whose schooling in Daytona Beach, Florida ended...

Editor’s note: In late April, 2023, four Scholarship Foundation Policy Fellows joined Director of Advocacy Karina Arango for training and legislative visits organized by the National College Attainment Network in Washington, DC....