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New ASA Report, Projects Announced
- ASA's new report Staking Their Claim: Promising Practices for Facilitating FAFSA Completion, an evaluation of NCAN's 2018-19 FAFSA Completion Challenge, identifies effective strategies, barriers, and recommendations for further increases.
- ASA is excited to announce a partnership with Sova Solutions to provide research support to NASPA’s Center for First-generation Student Success. ASA is responsible for data collection and reporting on student outcomes related to institutions’ new strategies to support first-generation student success, and will conduct a formative evaluation of the implementation of the supports.
- ASA is one of the Strong Start to Finish’s new Solution Network Research and Service Partners. The network will work to reform developmental education and student success at scale. For further information, visit https://www.ecs.org/initiatives/strong-start-to-finish/.
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Check out ASA's latest blogs, on communicating financial aid concepts to families and developing an Equity Framework.
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