With families facing the challenge of rising tuition costs in a struggling economy, Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) today released a comprehensive resource guide on financial aid for students who are pursuing a higher education. “Ready for College: A Resource Guide to Financial Aid for Students” provides students and their families with a one-stop-shopping resource for federal and state aid programs that they may be eligible for.
“For students just out of high school or adults returning to school, the path to college is full of obstacles,” Dodd writes in the guide. “In today’s economy, families are often forced to dip into their savings to put food on the table or to keep their homes, leaving far too many talented high school graduates unable to go to college simply because they cannot afford it.
“Parents across Connecticut can identify with the turbulent emotions that are part of this phase in their child’s life: the excitement of college visits, the stress of figuring out whether that dream is affordable, the anxiety that comes with every attempt to confront the complex maze that is the financial aid process.
“For these reasons, I have assembled this Resource Guide to Financial Aid to help Connecticut students and parents navigate the available assistance and explore a few of the ways they may be able to pay for school.”
For too long, student aid has not kept up with increasing college costs, and Senator Dodd has worked to both expand aid and slow the rising costs of higher education. He continues to lead the fight for increases in Pell Grants and to strengthen protections for student borrowers, including loan forgiveness, income-based repayments, and greater accountability of private student lenders to ensure students are getting fair and safe loans.
Dodd’s “Ready for College: A Resource Guide to Financial Aid for Students” can be found here.
