This presentation and practitioner guide will teach faculty how to develop ADA compliant learning materials and publish Word, Powerpoint, and PDF materials using free technologies. Free resources are also available at the end of the guide

As the student loan debt crisis has continued to gain national attention from higher education leaders, education policymakers, and the media, states have begun mandating that institutions send student loan debt letters to any current or former student with outstanding student loan debt....

In an era of billions of dollars in outstanding student loan debt, researchers have posited that the U.S. News & World Report rankings continue to be an influential source of information for prospective students, yet these rankings do not include college affordability metrics in their ranking...

As COVID-19 is presenting college campuses with considerable challenges, financial wellness programs on these campuses must maintain clear communications with students during this crisis. Students and other stakeholders are likely stressed, financially vulnerable, and eager to return to...

As institutions of higher education and financial aid and wellness offices are working through COVID-19, professionals are delivering digital communication across multimedia more rapidly than ever. Although student-focused communication is critical, ensuring that all people have equal access to...

The United States (U.S.) Access Board, a branch of the federal government responsible for advancing the inclusion of people with disabilities into U.S. society, recently amended Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). On January 18th, 2018, the final Section 508 amendment...

The way in which postsecondary institutions — and their social and academic infrastructures—support affluent, socially-oriented students produces a magnifying effect upon micro-circumstances which in turn affect macro-level post-postsecondary advantages and disadvantages is the chief...

As the cost of college rises, students and their families seek new ways to save money. Application fee waivers are offered by many postsecondary institutions in the United States, but higher education as a field has not examined whether or not the application fee waiver statement published on...

To better understand what prospective undergraduates understand about the process of applying for federal student aid, this study captured nationally-representative survey data from 1,230 prospective undergraduates applying to four-year, bachelor's degree-granting US institutions of higher...

Since its writing into Texas state law, only one empirical study has been published which compares the relative ease or difficulty of ApplyTexas against other national-level postsecondary applications of which ApplyTexas competes with. Taylor’s (2019) cross-analysis of ApplyTexas versus the...