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June 28, 2017

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Title: Aligning Aid with Enrollment

Author: Evan Weissman, Oscar Cerna, Dan Cullinan, and Amanda Baldiga

Source: MDRC

Financial aid continues to be a growing area of conversation in higher education. A new report by MDRC, Aligning Aid with Enrollment, explores if disbursing financial aid refunds biweekly helps students to cover expenses throughout the term by stretching financial aid dollars. Authors Evan Weissman, Oscar Cerna, Dan Cullinan and Amanda Baldiga are conducting a mixed methods study of biweekly disbursements at two community colleges in Houston. The final results will be published in 2018.

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