One of the many skills our students must develop is to be good at waiting. This characteristic is required of them by a higher education system designed to serve a …
All the Ways that Money Matters: How Colleges Perpetuate Inequity
Scholarship Foundation Student Advisors assist 6,000 students and family members navigating admissions and financial aid each year. Sometimes I state the obvious. Money (or the absence of it) affects students …
Welcome to Kafkaesque Flagship University
Photo by Lilly Stephen Recently, our staff worked with a student who had graduated from a north county high school in 2017 with a 4.0 GPA. First in her family …
Disband “Decision Day”
Last year the Words of Faith blog was launched and a May Day post denounced the arbitrary but growing trend of declaring it “Decision Day”. On “Decision Day”, high schools, …
Food for Thought: Why Hunger Haunts So Many College Students
On April 3, the Washington Post published the recent release of data documenting hunger and other basic needs unmet among college students. The piece cited several surveys, but focused on …
Food for Thought
It does not take much to imagine what it is like to try to study or sit in class if you are chronically hungry or malnourished. While some of us …
Making the Money Work
It’s safe to say that every student on financial aid has had moments of terrible challenge in making the money work. Big gaps, deposits due before aid arrives, unforeseen emergencies, …
GET OUT YOUR NATIONAL BADGE OF HONOR
URGENT ACTION NEEDED: If you are reading this blog, chances are good that you are committed to educational equity and to the principles of democracy. Your action is needed now. …
Mayday, Mayday, Mayday
Among the lesser known observances of May 1 is “Decision Day.” For low-income students, this is more than a misnomer. Until the entire system changes, this higher education holiday should …
Invisible Outcomes
Among the many programs presently targeted for elimination or surgical hatchet is Federal Work Study. For me, hearing the vapid chatter about the program’s “effectiveness” was like a catapult back …
