Season 3: Low Income and First Generation Students - Financial Challenges
Michelle
Boettcher
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First- Generation students, Tatum, Cody, and Kinsey speak on the difficulties of navigating college financial aid. They discuss the benefits of working in the financial aid office and how that has helped their understanding, but also the debt families will take on to send their students to a national championship (football) winning university.
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-is-college-so-expensive-in-america/569884/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/camilomaldonado/2018/07/24/price-of-college-increasing-almost-8-times-faster-than-wages/#65ba16e466c1
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/2013/04/22/financial-aid-help-for-first-gen-college-students