Every year in early May, NACAC publishes a list of colleges that still have openings for the coming fall, and this year is no exception. Currently about 750 schools show up on the list. The College Openings Update is a database that can be searched on various criteria including state, housing availability and financial aid availability. Given that many schools…
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My apologies to anyone who tried to access my event on Facebook yesterday. The short story is, the stream went to the wrong place and when you’re in the middle of a live interview there isn’t much you can do to change that! The recording is available here so you can watch it at your convenience. (The part where I…
The CARES Act (the coronavirus stimulus package approved by Congress last month) includes approximately $14 billion in grants to colleges and universities, with about $12.5 billion of that being distributed broadly across the higher education landscape and the remainder targeting minority-serving institutions. The CARES Act requires that half of the funding a school receives be dedicated to emergency student aid,…
Students who have received a financial aid award for the coming school year should be aware that the costs quoted are most likely 2019-2020 costs. Few, if any, colleges have posted their 2020-2021 school year costs. Many public schools have some version of what my son’s school posted about next year’s costs on their website. The coronavirus is hammering state…
I hope that everyone is home, safe, and washing their hands a lot! Yesterday we learned that bacon is not being hoarded, at least not in Portland, when out of the blue we got a notification that several week-old online grocery delivery attempts were going to be filled. The one item that was not out of stock in any of…