Applying for college financial aid can be a maddening process, and nothing better illustrates the point than the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. For those unfamiliar with it, the FAFSA serves as a kind of documental master key ...
The Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara has been the subject of considerable news coverage in recent weeks, including reports on area television stations KSBY, KEYT, KKFX, and KCOY, as well as in local newspapers. Click on the images below for a ...
Tradition dictates that students begin college in the fall term following their graduation from high school. An increasing number are choosing another path, though, delaying the start of their postsecondary studies for up to a year. The so-called gap year... Read More
In her new book, “Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost,” anthropologist Caitlin Zaloom documents how the rising cost of college is fundamentally transforming the character of middle-class family life. Based on interviews with more tha...
As recently as the 1980s, vocational training was the Rodney Dangerfield of postsecondary education. To the extent it was acknowledged at all, it got little respect in policy circles, and fared worse with the public – the byproduct of a decades-long ...