Learning Circle – Helping Undocumented Students Pay for College: Learning from Higher Ed Innovators

Income Sharing Agreements: An emerging model to help DREAMers pay for their education and build a sustainable funding model

• A presentation by Kevin James, President of Better Future Forward, on the use of Income Sharing Agreements to help undocumented students pay for college
• A discussion with Matthew Gianneschi, Chief Operating Officer, Colorado Mountain College, and Ricshawn Adkins Roane, Chief of Staff, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation on why and how they have adopted their versions of the ISA model

Financial Aid for DREAMers: Opening Existing and New Financial and Scholarship Aid to DREAMers – Overcoming Barriers and Challenges

• Review of opportunities, challenges and barriers to opening financial and scholarship aid to DREAMers with Candy Marshall
• A discussion with John Smarrelli, President Christian Brothers University, Melissa Pizzo, Executive Director of Financial Aid and Scholarship Services, Arizona State University, and Miriam Feldblum on the use of endowments, institutional aid, tuition discounts or waivers and private scholarship funds to help DREAMers pay

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