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Creating a Connected Campus to Award More Scholarships and Improve Student Outcomes

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As undergraduate enrollment continues to decline—one million fewer students enrolled in 2022 than in 2020*—colleges and universities must consider new ways to attract and retain students. Create Cross-Functional Workflow When a campus works cross-functionally, scholarships become more accessible and easier to award.

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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.

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5 Things Colleges Can Do Right Now to Impact Fall 2024 Enrollment

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The ongoing FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) delays have left students with less time to compare financial aid offers and make a college decision than in a typical year. Despite the turbulence experienced with the (not really better) Better FAFSA, the goal should be to avoid deterring college access.

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VisionLink’s Strategic Advantage Department Produces Complete College America’s National STEM Careers Academy

VisionLink

We’ve made progress in giving students from all backgrounds access to college – but we haven’t finished the all-important job of helping them achieve a degree. Counting the success of all students is an essential first step.

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Forum One Honored With 11 Vega Awards

Forum One

The end result is accessible, multilingual, and mobile-first digital experience. Our decade plus relationship is a great example of the impact that can be made when great teams collaborate! Forum One built the site with the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health. Congressional Districts.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

Not all leaders think that way, but organizations that value equity of access must consider the plights of those who might be systematically excluded from engagement efforts. So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S.

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Jury Is Out On Philanthropy And Medical Debt

The NonProfit Times

That’s the conclusion reached by a team of researchers from the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts after completing a study in partnership with RIP Medical Debt, a New York City charity that buys and cancels medical debt. Yet, there are also reasons for caution.”