{"id":553,"date":"2017-02-24T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T18:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=553"},"modified":"2017-02-24T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T18:52:50","slug":"report-many-community-college-students-struggle-financially","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/02\/24\/report-many-community-college-students-struggle-financially\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Many Community College Students Struggle Financially"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_554\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-554\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-554\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/commcollege.jpg\" alt=\"iStock\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/commcollege.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/commcollege-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The majority of community college students live paycheck to paycheck, and nearly half say a lack of finances could cause them to leave school, national survey results show.<\/p>\n<p>The findings \u2014 included in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccsse.org\/docs\/Making_Ends_Meet.pdf\">new report<\/a> from the Center for Community College Student Engagement\u00a0(CCSE) \u2014 underscores the role finances play in educational attainment.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking sure students can pay their tuition\u2014and pay for housing, food, and other basic needs\u2014must be an integral part of the college completion agenda,\u201d CCSE Director Evelyn Waiwaiole said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 100,000 community college students from across the country were surveyed for the report, with 90 percent of respondents citing a need for more information about financial assistance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccsse.org\/docs\/Making_Ends_Meet.pdf\">Read the full report.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of community college students live paycheck to paycheck, and nearly half say a lack of finances could cause them to leave school, national survey results show. The findings \u2014 included in a new report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement\u00a0(CCSE) \u2014 underscores the role finances play in educational attainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,111,7],"tags":[270,105],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-college-completion","category-cost-of-college","tag-center-for-community-college-student-engagement","tag-community-college"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-8V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}