Applying for financial aid is hard. A new rule could make it harder.
Advocates for college access acknowledge the importance of weeding out fraud but worry about the cost of adding new hurdles to getting aid.
Mississippi college board, unable to work without governor appointments, calls emergency meeting
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Some Mississippi community colleges are making their summer classes free
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After a pause in the pandemic, tuition is increasing again at most Mississippi universities
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Fewer Mississippi students are applying for financial aid. Here’s what officials are doing about it.
Compared with last year, 18 percent fewer students had filled out the FAFSA. The decline is worse in schools with higher populations of working-class students and students of color.
Most recipients of financial aid in Mississippi are from wealthier families
“We’re excluding the highest need students,” says the director of a statewide nonprofit group.