Multifaceted Aid for Low-Income Students and College Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina
56 Pages Posted: 9 May 2016
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Multifaceted Aid for Low-Income Students and College Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina
Multifaceted Aid for Low-Income Students and College Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina
Multifaceted Aid for Low‐Income Students and College Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina
Date Written: May 2016
Abstract
We study the evolution of a campus-based aid program for low-income students that began with grant-heavy financial aid and later added a suite of non-financial supports. We find little to no evidence that program eligibility during the early years (2004-2006), in which students received additional institutional grant aid and few non-financial supports, improved postsecondary progress, performance, or completion. In contrast, program-eligible students in more recent cohorts (2007-2010), when the program supplemented grant-heavy aid with an array of non-financial supports, were more likely to meet credit accumulation benchmarks toward timely graduation and earned higher GPAs than their barely ineligible counterparts.
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