Sarah Pingel and Brian Prescott: Principles for Use in Redesigning State Financial Aid
Update: 2015-06-01
Description
Sarah Pingel from Education Commission of the States (“ECS”) and Brian Prescott from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (“WICHE”) share the details of a recently released ECS Report on guiding principles for state financial aid redesign: student-centered, goal driven and data informed, timely and flexible and broadly inclusive of student’s educational pathways.
| Individual Questions: | ||
| TThe impetus behind the Education Commission of the States (“ECS”) Report (2:10 ) | ||
| Concerns about college affordability trigger support for ECS’s work (:26) | ||
| The importance of engaging the states in financial aid redesign (1:16 ) | ||
| The demographic trends that are driving the need for changes in financial aid policy (1:07 ) | ||
| States that are aligning state financial aid policy with a new student demographic and their specific needs (1:48 ) | ||
| State initiatives to simplify application processes for financial aid (:54) | ||
| A fifty-state website on financial aid redesign www.financialaidredesign.org and Technical Assistance Awards for states advancing financial aid redesign initiatives (2:11 ) | ||
| ECS support in moving states to their own goals (:51) | ||
| Connections between outcomes-based funding and state goals (:40) | ||
| Aligning state and federal goals in financial aid policy: the tug of war between appropriations and tuition policy (3:42 ) | ||
| Steering institutional behaviors to better serve student attainment (6:12 ) | ||
| Marrying state merit-based and need-based funding programs (3:48 ) | ||
| Making equity gaps disappear and measuring success (4:15 ) |
Podcast Intro and Exit music by Won (FLT RSK) / CC BY-NC 3.0 Produced in conjunction with the Average Guy Podcast Network
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