Colleges Promise Greater Transparency in Financial Aid Options

“Students and families need transparency, consistency, and clarity when colleges and universities communicate their student financial aid offers ...

More Than 360 Colleges Pledged to Make Their Financial-Aid ...

More Than 360 Colleges Pledged to Make Their Financial-Aid Letters More Transparent. Here's a Closer Look. ... Getting accepted to college is one ...

Hundreds of colleges vow to boost transparency in financial aid offers

There has been talk about legislation to force higher education institutions to make their financial aid offerings more transparent for students ...

Over 360 colleges pledge to give students clearer, more accurate ...

The commitment was announced by the College Cost Transparency Initiative (CCT). Founded in fall 2022, CCT is led by 10 higher education ...

Citing FAFSA issues, colleges want relief from gainful rule

As colleges and universities scramble to process student financial aid applications and send out award letters, institutions want more time ...

Over 360 colleges agree to common standards for financial aid offers

The commitment, announced Tuesday, was devised by the College Cost Transparency Initiative, a task force created last year by 10 higher ...

Improving college access through financial aid transparency and ...

Financial aid access and transparency is not a cure-all to increasing equity in college enrollment—but it is a necessary first condition. We ...

Colleges agree to make financial aid letters more transparent ...

It was born out of the College Cost Transparency Initiative, a task force involving 10 higher education associations, to try to make financial ...

GAO: Institutions Are Not Providing Clear and Standard ... - NASFAA

GAO is calling on Congress to consider legislation that would require colleges to provide students financial aid offers that follow best ...

Hundreds of colleges vow to boost transparency in financial aid offers

There has been talk about legislation to force higher education institutions to make their financial aid offerings more transparent for students ...

Financial aid cost transparency in higher education: Best practices

The audit, which ran from January 2021 through November 2022 and sampled from 204 public, nonprofit, and for-profit institutions, found that 91% ...

What a Second Trump Term Could Mean for Student Financial Aid

According to Trump's platform, Republicans will support the creation of “more affordable alternatives to a traditional four-year college degree” ...

Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment

GE programs include nearly all educational programs at for-profit institutions of higher education, as well as non-degree programs at public and ...

How ambitious plans for a new FAFSA ended in a fiasco

The stakes are high: without those letters, families are in the dark about their options to pay for college, and college-access advocates worry ...

Making sense of financial aid and the value of a college education

College financial aid helps students and their families by covering higher education expenses such as tuition and fees, room and board, books and other ...

300-Plus Colleges Commit to Financial Aid Transparency for Students

More than 360 colleges and universities across the country vowed to boost transparency in financial aid offers for students.

College Costs, Financial Aid, and Student Decisions

These two channels are not mutually exclusive, generating a spectrum of models of higher education finance. At one extreme, governments fully subsidize colleges ...

Affordability in Higher Education and Promise Programs

Across Colorado, many colleges and universities have worked to develop Promise Programs, which help remove some of the financial barriers connected with ...

The Future of Statewide College Promise Programs

Because Promise programs are easy to explain, and might reach more people and a wider political constituency than typical financial aid programs ...

About Us - College Cost Transparency Initiative

The higher education community is committed to providing students financial aid information about the cost of college that is clear, accurate, and transparent.