Scholarship Strategies empowers students to be uniquely proactive towards their scholarship search process, enabling them to find more scholarships than with the traditional approach through the guidance and college offices at their schools. The current approach to finding scholarships to reduce college costs is not giving families the results they need. College costs continue to rise and so does student loan debt. As a recipient of an academic college scholarship as well as several outside scholarships, Jean O'Toole was able to attend Wagner College, but she and her family still had to pay for the remainder of her education with student loans. A different approach is needed to provide families with different results. In Scholarship Strategies, Jean simplifies the scholarship application process in easy-to-follow steps which any student can incorporate into their already busy schedules. She provides students and parents with a clear plan to decipher which scholarships have the best chances of winning and should be applied to. This easy-to-follow, out-of-the-box approach was developed over a decade of working with thousands of students, giving students and families ownership of the scholarship search process to build on the efforts that their school counselors are already providing. A future can be designed without college debt, and Scholarship Strategies with its 25 clear strategies, along with 15 additional ways to reduce college costs, helps students live that future.

1 Die hier vorliegende Politikfeldstudie soli als empirisch in formierte 'Biographie' der Ausbildungsbeihilfenpolitik Licht werfen auf ihren historischen und institutionellen Kontext und die darin ablaufenden politisch-administrativen Prozesse und dam it mittelbar auch einen Beitrag zur Beantwortung der Frage nach der Reform- und Umvertei lungsfahigkeit des Politisch-Administrativen-Systems in der Bundesrepu blik Deutschland liefern. Ich danke allen, die mich bei der Abfassung dieser Arbeit in viel faltiger Weise unterstiitzt haben. Dies gilt insbesondere fiir die wissen schaftliche Betreuerin, Frau Prof. Dr. Windhoff-Heritier, ohne deren Initiative ich die Forschungsarbeit nicht fortgefiihrt hatte, sowie Herrn Prof. Dr. Thomas Ellwein, der die Veroffentlichung dieser Studie zu sammen mit dem Deutschen Universitatsverlag ermoglicht hat. Der Dank gebiihrt zudem auch den Personen, die sich ver traulichen Interviews zur Verfiigung gestellt haben und der Friedrich Ebert -Stiftung, die dieses Vorhaben finanziell unterstiitzt hat. Nicht zu letzt bin ich meiner Schwester Sabine sowie Frau Hentschel zu beson derem Dank verpflichtet, die nebenberuflich und unter groBen Miihen mein z.T. schwer leserliches Manuskript in diese druckfertige Fassung ge bracht haben. Ohne sie aIle hatte die Arbeit so nicht entstehen konnen. Selbstver standlich iibernimmt der Autor die alleinige Verantwortung fUr die Unter suchungsergebnisse und die daraus gezogenen SchluBfolgerungen."

Blackface - instances in which non-Black persons temporarily darken their skin with make-up to impersonate Black people, usually for fun, and frequently in educational contexts - constitutes a postracialist pedagogy that propagates antiblack logics. In Performing Postracialism, Philip S.S. Howard examines instances of contemporary blackface in Canada and argues that it is more than a simple matter of racial (mis)representation. The book looks at the ostensible humour and dominant conversations around blackface, arguing that they are manifestations of the particular formations of antiblackness in the Canadian nation state and its educational institutions. It posits that the occurrence of blackface in universities is not incidental, and outlines how educational institutions' responses to blackface in Canada rely upon a motivation to protect whiteness. Performing Postracialism draws from focus groups and individual interviews conducted with university students, faculty, administrators, and Black student associations, along with online articles about blackface, to provide the basis for a nuanced examination of the ways that blackface is experienced by Black persons. The book investigates the work done by Black students, faculty, and staff at universities to challenge blackface and the broader campus climate of antiblackness that generates it.

This volume offers practical information and motivational support to help parents in higher education successfully deal with the challenges they face, and make juggling their parent and student commitments less arduous. Written by a recent student parent graduate, it covers issues from funding and childcare, to managing insecurities and future directions.