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Through grant funding, NACAC will enable schools and CBOs to provide needed FAFSA assistance to students. By Rachel Williams, NACAC Communications Arlington, VA (June 3, 2024) - Through a grant from Strada Education Foundation, NACAC is supporting schools and community-based organizations (CBOs) in [...]
By Rachel Williams, NACAC Communications Arlington, VA (May 16, 2024) - NACAC has entered into a collaboration agreement with the International Career and College Counseling Movement, known as IC³, which aims to establish career and college counseling in every school. Through this collaboration, [...]
By Rachel Williams, NACAC Communications Arlington, VA (April 29, 2024) - To make college admission more equitable, institutions should look more deeply into a student’s body of work from secondary school to assess their performance and college readiness. That was the key message from [...]
By Rachel Williams, NACAC Communications Arlington, VA (April 5, 2024) - Education First, a national, mission-driven strategy and policy organization with deep expertise in education improvement, has been selected to help bring NACAC’s vision for a new center that reimagines college access to [...]
By Rachel Williams, NACAC Communications In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court striking down the use of race-conscious admission, faith-based institutions of higher education should consider how their efforts to support underrepresented and minority groups are an exercise of their mission and [...]
(Arlington, VA) January 31, 2024 — The Department of Education (ED) recently announced that it will now update, in accordance with the law, the tables used to protect a portion of a family’s income from being considered available for college expenses by inflation-adjusted amounts, which will result in some students [...]
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Statement from NACAC CEO Angel B. Pérez January 30, 2024 Today the U.S. Department of Education released an Electronic Announcement notifying the field that institutions would receive FAFSA applicant information in March at the earliest. At NACAC, we are devastated by this news. All of the challenges presented [...]
By Rachel Williams, NACAC Communications Arlington, VA (December 4, 2023) - With support from Lumina Foundation, NACAC is building the framework for a new Center for Reimagining College Access that will make postsecondary education more equitable and accessible than ever before. The vision for the center [...]
By Rachel Williams, NACAC Communications Arlington, VA (November 14, 2023) - Partnerships that better connect students to postsecondary education and career opportunities are the future, said Angel B. Pérez, NACAC CEO, in a virtual panel discussion hosted by New York City Public Schools’ Office of Student [...]
By Rachel Williams, NACAC Communications Arlington, VA (October 17, 2023) - In partnership with Civic Nation, 121 students registered to vote while attending the NACAC National College Fair in Portland, Oregon on Oct. 8-9. Civic Nation hosted their ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge and, along with [...]