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State Need-Based Aid And Four-Year College Student Retention: A Statewide Study, Kara Lynn Mcfall
State Need-Based Aid And Four-Year College Student Retention: A Statewide Study, Kara Lynn Mcfall
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Every college age student should have the opportunity to attend college and earn a degree, but the fiscal realities for lower income students prevent the majority from attending and the vast majority from completing college, thus perpetuating an intergenerational trend of limited postsecondary education and a likelihood of marginal income and status. Past research studies have shown that, among lower income students, those who receive higher levels of grant funding to offset college expenses are more likely to persist toward completing their educations than those who do not receive the same level of grant funding and thus are forced to …