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Read a collection of news articles that illustrate why our program is targeted to support loan repayment of first generation to college students.

Table of Contents

Student Debt Issues

Title	Link
Six Common Mistakes People Make With Their Student Loans	Download
It's Easy to Forget, but a Program to Forgive Student Loans Already Exists	Download
Should We Forgive All Federal Student-Loan Debt?	Download
Where to Search (for Scholarships)	Download
How to Pick the Right Student Loan	Download
Mistakes Parents Make With Financial Aid	Download
Questions Families Need to Ask About Paying for College	Download
Why I Changed My Mind on Student Debt Forgiveness	Download
Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60. Find Yours.	Download

First Generation To College

Title	Link
Does It Pay to Start at Community College? Maybe	Download
When It Pays to Start at a Community College	Download
The College Dropout Crisis	Download
How to Get the Most Out of College	Download
Hispanic College Endrollment Pew 100822	Download
First Gen College Student Economic Profiles Pew 0521	Download

Income Issues

Title	Link
When Women Bring Home a Bigger Slice of the Bacon	Download
Straight Talk for White Men	Download
Colleges Are the Golden Ticket, Elite or Not	Download
Gender pay gap in U.S. hasn't changed much in two decades	Download
Gender Pay Gap Opens Early	Download

Increasing Interest In STEM

Title	Link
Women should embrace the B's in college to make more later	Download
How Women Mentors Make a Difference in Engineering	Download
Helping Girls Step Up to Entrepreneurship	Download
Study: Uncivil work environment pushing women out of the engineering field	Download
Why Do So Many Women Who Study Engineering Leave the Field?	Download
How a Johns Hopkins Professor and Her Chinese Students Tracked Coronavirus	Download
Reach for the Moon: Four Lives, the Space Race and a Chaotic Decade	Download
How to Get More Women Into Technology	Download
Mission Not Accomplished - Unequal Opportunities and Outcomes for Black and Latinx Engineers	Download
Hispanic Americans' Trust in and Engagement with Science	Download

Education & Income

Title	Link
The Small, Happy Life	Download
Overrating the Ivy League	Download
Why I Will	Download
Income Inequality	Download
Keep some perspective during college acceptance season	Download
What College Admissions Offices Really Want	Download

Demographics & Miscellaneous

Title	Link
The Small, Happy Life	Download
Overrating the Ivy League	Download
Why I Will	Download
Income Inequality	Download
Keep some perspective during college acceptance season	Download
What College Admissions Offices Really Want	Download