How To Get Home Field Advantage

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How To Get Home Field Advantage

• What Schools are doing to Help Families

Dorothy Gilliard Vice President-Student
Financial Services Lincoln Educational Services
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Lincoln Educational Services- The Home Team

• 42 Campuses
• 17 States
• 22,500 Students
• Many funding challenges

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First Base-Title IV Aid

• Our main objective
• Ensure that all students receive ALL the Title IV
  funds for which they are eligible
• Look at students special circumstances
• Unemployment
• Housing crisis
• Overall economic downturn
• Increase the use of Professional Judgment-
  wherever possible
• Progress always involves risk you can't steal
  second base and keep your foot on first base.
  Fred Wilcox

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Second Base- Sch larships and Sensitivity

• We become innovative
• Increase need-based institutional scholarships
  for students
• Work directly with students to find and apply for
  outside scholarships
• Offer open-door scholarship testing to all
  prospective students to encourage
• When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an
  apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ...
  By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it
  a full two inches closer to second base. He
  figured that this improved his chances for a
  steal, or for reaching second base safely on a
  hit. Norman Vincent Peale
• Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation
  is doing new things. Theodore Levitt

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Second Base- Sch larships and Sensitivity

• We become innovative
• Create Student Sensitivity Funds
• Assist with Transportation Expenses
• Gas Cards
• Bus Passes
• Parking Fee Assistance in areas where this is no
  free parking
• Food Pantry
• Career Services
• Part Time Job Assistance
• Full Time Job Assistance
• When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an
  apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ...
  By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it
  a full two inches closer to second base. He
  figured that this improved his chances for a
  steal, or for reaching second base safely on a
  hit. Norman Vincent Peale

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Third Base-Private Funding

• Reality
• Sources of external gap funding have virtually
  dried up
• Most students are credit-score challenged
• Average American FICO score, which is considered
  fair/good, is approx. 700-725
• Average Lincoln student FICO score is 563-575
• Co-signors difficult to find or unwilling to sign
• Institutional Loans are becoming the norm
• Stopping at third base adds no more to the score
  than striking out. Unknown

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Home Run

• Students can stay in school and stay focused
• Students complete their education which leads to
  better access to job opportunities
• School has more favorable completion and
  graduation rates and remains compliant
• Schools Cohort Default Rates remain constant or
  are even reduced

I had only one superstition. I made sure to
touch all the bases when I hit a home run. Babe
Ruth