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FAFSA student aid audit thegrio.com
January 3, 2024
A new version of the federal student aid application known as the FAFSA is available for the 2024-2025 school year,…
April 29, 2023
The full-ride scholarship, created to help young aspiring writers, was awarded to a Mississippi high school senior,
April 28, 2023
Inflexible requirements make it harder for those who want to improve their economic status while juggling being a parent and…
November 7, 2022
University of Kentucky student Sophia Rosing has been arrested on multiple charges for verbally and physically attacking a Black peer.
college thegrio.com
September 1, 2022
Attending college can be one of the most transformative periods in a young person’s life. But the first year can…
December 11, 2021
The racial gap in graduation rates for this year’s college football bowl teams has shrunk thanks to gains by Black…
August 21, 2021
Indiana University Board of Trustees members elected Quinn Buckner to a two-year term. He is the first Black person to…
theGRIO.com
May 13, 2021
Former seamstress and great-grandmother Vivian Cunningham is making headlines for graduating from an Alabama university at the age of 78.
March 20, 2021
Jorge Salcedo’s is one of the longest sentences handed down so far in the college admissions case dubbed “Operation Varsity…
October 18, 2020
As colleges are reopening nationwide amid the ever present COVID-19 pandemic, students at HBCUs are generally safer, according to a…
August 23, 2020
The new study concluded that Black and Latino students at University of California campuses saw declining enrollment and graduation rates.
Milwaukee thegrio.com
August 30, 2018
Former First Lady Michelle Obama's commitment to the welfare and education of children in this country has not wavered one bit.
June 7, 2015
theGrio REPORT - At 99, Doreetha Daniels is definitely the senior of her college classmates ... and even her professors.
March 30, 2015
College or prison: which is more important? In 16 states in the land of the free, the answer is prison.
January 3, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - A college education is viewed one of the essential stepping stones to a fulfilling career - but…
February 28, 2012
OPINION - Rick Santorum says President Barack Obama is a 'snob,' who is encouraging young people to go to college…