The increasing tension between the perceived necessity of a college degree and the
challenge of paying for it has led to a proliferation of financial aid policy in the United States …

Promise programs are discussed as a policy movement that began with the 2005 launch of
the Kalamazoo Promise. Since then, programs bearing the Promise label or sharing similar …

College “Promise” programs have spread rapidly across the higher education landscape
over the past two decades, but there is little consensus about what they are or how they …