This research insight focuses on the Community College Opportunity Grant (CCOG) and the Garden State Guarantee (GSG), two sources of financial aid for low-income students in New Jersey which collectively constitute a “message of college promise.”
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college
Why your college major doesn't always matter
Shortly before he died in 2011, Steve Jobs famously told President Obama that Apple would have located 200,000 iPhone manufacturing jobs in the United States, rather than China, if he could have found 8,700 qualified industrial engineers in the U.S. This exchange and...
New Jersey offers low-income students at Rutgers more financial aid than federal government
Low-income college students and families in New Jersey are offered more financial aid from New Jersey than from the larger federal grant program, according to a Washington Post article. Most states provide significantly less than the federal program does. Carl E. Van...
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