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FAP813: Emergency community college aid, Free Stuff Friday

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Student Financial Aid News
+ Four YouTube videos that make colleges cringe
+ Chronicle: Emergency aid for community college students. One of the programs, the Dreamkeepers fund, offers emergency aid to eligible students at 11 community colleges serving large numbers of low-income students. The other program, the Angel Fund, does the same thing for 26 tribal colleges and universities. The multiyear pilot programs are financed by the Lumina Foundation for Education and administered by Scholarship America and the American Indian College Fund.
+ In 2005 and 2006 the programs awarded more than $845,000 in aid to some 2,400 eligible students at the participating colleges. Individual awards ranged from $11 to $2,286, the report says. Recipients of aid from the Dreamkeepers fund, in particular, were more likely to be older than other students, to have dependent children, and to be enrolled in vocational programs, the report says.

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