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When Confusion Costs Completion: The Financial Aid Offer Letter’s Hidden Role in Student Success
In this episode of CCA On the Air, Alliance Engagement Director Jennifer Torres sits down with Anika Van Eaton and Brendan Williams from uAspire to unpack their December 2025 report, Caution: Prices May Vary. After analyzing 211 financial aid offers from institutions across 34 states, uAspire found that the way colleges communicate cost to students…
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CCA on the Air: Accelerator Special Feature — Charting a Better Path for Students at the University of Akron
In this Accelerator Special Feature episode of CCA on the Air, we are joined by two leaders from the University of Akron: Vice Provost for Student Pathways & Dean of the Williams Honors College, Fedearia Nicholson-Sweval, and Bill Torgler, Senior Director of the Student Success Center at the University of Akron. UAkron has been a…
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CCA on the Air: Reimagining First-Year Advising at the University of Virginia
In this episode of CCA on the Air: Success to and Through College, we’re joined by Christa Acampora, Buckner W. Clay Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia. Under her leadership, UVA has launched an innovative advising fellows model that embeds pre-major…
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CCA on the Air: Humanities, Leadership, and Belonging: Inside Tri-C’s Mandel Scholars Academy
In this episode of CCA on the Air, Midwest Region Alliance Engagement Director Nichole Mann takes listeners inside Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) in Cleveland, Ohio, for a conversation that came straight out of CCA’s Complete College Photo Library project. She sits down with Dr. Connie Kassor, Chair of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Humanities…
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CCA Accelerator Special Feature: Transforming Advising at Greenville Technical College
In this episode of CCA on the Air: Transforming Advising at Greenville Technical, we’re joined by Brett Barclay (Brett.Barclay@gvltec.edu), the Dean of Academic Advising at Greenville Technical College in South Carolina. GTC has participated in CCA’s Accelerator, a part of the Gates Foundation Intermediaries for Scale Investment, for nearly three years. Through this project, GTC…
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CCA on the Air – From Access to Completion: How CollegeBound Foundation Supports Baltimore Students
In this episode of CCA On the Air, Alliance Engagement Director Jonathan Gowin sits down with two leaders from the College Bound Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland: Khala Granville Williamson, Director of High School Programs, and Jennifer Covahey, Director of College Success. They explore how College Bound has built a comprehensive “to and through college” model that…