Hoops and Hurdles

Inside Higher Ed wrote about a new Urban Institute report on New York's Excelsior Scholarship by CCRC researchers Judith Scott-Clayton, CJ Libassi, and Daniel Sparks. They found that take-up of the last-dollar program, which targets and mostly serves middle-income students, is low. They hypothesize that the application process and complex contracts students must sign may impede access to benefits.