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Financing College: Success Innovations to Promote Readiness, Access and Completion

Financing College Success: Innovations to Promote Readiness, Access, and Completion Thursday, May 31, the Asset Building Program hosted an event Financing College Success: Innovations to Promote Readiness, Access, and Completion. We were particularly excited to host Martha Kanter, Under Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education and Congressman Chaka Fattah from Pennsylvania to speak about their respective work to promote access to higher education. Reid Cramer, Director of the Asset Building Program, introduced our speakers and moderated the conversation. He began by noting that the recent focus on student loan debt has driven attention to earlier interventions to help students afford college. Successful college attendance is a process that begins many years before students reach the end of high school and has a significant financial component. Savings, public benefits, and other programs play a role along the way to give students a sense that college is financially within their reach. The Asset Building Program is particularly excited about the recent announcement that the Department of Ed is going to use at least $8.7 million in funding to conduct a college savings demonstration project with students in the GEAR UP program (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs). Participants Opening Speakers Martha Kanter Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education The Honorable Chaka Fattah Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Featured Panelist Debra Saunders-White Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher Education Programs U.S. Department of Education Featured Speakers Willie Elliott III Assistant Professor, School of Social Work University of Kansas Kevin Carey Policy Director Education Sector Evelyn Ganzglass Director, Workforce Development Center for Law and Social Policy Reid Cramer Director, Asset Building Program New America Foundation http://www.newamerica.net/events/2012...