Financial Aid

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After 15 years leading Brown financial aid, Dean Jim Tilton to retire (Brown University)

Since joining the University as dean of financial aid in 2006, the longtime education leader has helped to grow Brown's financial aid program into one of ...

While Jim’s accomplishments are many, the University’s expanding set of measures to increase student aid and make a Brown education more accessible to students from every income background makes clear the significant progress achieved in the years that he has led the office.” He said the University will miss Tilton’s deep expertise in financial aid and his unwavering commitment to supporting students and their families. [Brown University] — After 15 years of distinguished service at Brown and a successful four-decade career in higher education, Dean of Financial Aid Jim Tilton will retire at the end of the 2022 calendar year.

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Deadline fast approaching for Black women's financial aid program (FOX 5 Atlanta)

Time is running out for Black women in College Park to apply to a new financial assistance program that could give each of them more than $20000-- no ...

The "In Her Hands" branch gives hundreds of black women $850 monthly for 2 years-- no questions asked. They know the price of gas at three different stations," Wollensack said. The application closes this Sunday at 11:59 pm. "Our community us 87% African American with a high number of single parent households," she said. Organizers say they hope this helps some of the most vulnerable Black women get ahead. "Most people, especially with low incomes, are pretty financially savvy with what they have.

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Dean of Financial Aid Jim Tilton to retire (The Brown Daily Herald)

Dean of Financial Aid Jim Tilton will retire at the end of 2022, Provost Richard Locke P'18 wrote in a Today@Brown announcement Thursday morning.

[$49.7 million in the 2006-07 academic year](https://oir.brown.edu/sites/default/files/2020-04/CDS2006_2007.pdf) to [$158.2 million in 2021-22. Before then, he “played an essential role” in the University’s elimination of parental contributions for families with incomes under $60,000 and assets under $100,000, Locke said in the statement. [to depart for Apple’s corporate university](https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2022/08/provost-locke-to-leave-brown-for-apple-university). [eliminate tuition payments for most families earning under $125,000](https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/10/brown-to-eliminate-tuition-for-families-earning-under-125000-through-financial-aid-expansion) with the elimination of [home equity assets from financial aid calculations](https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/11/deans-of-aid-admission-explain-effects-of-new-financial-aid-investments). ](https://oir.brown.edu/sites/default/files/2020-04/CDS_2021_2022.pdf) [ the Brown Promise](https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2017/09/brown-promise-initiative-aims-to-eliminate-all-undergraduate-loans), which replaced loans with grants in the University’s financial aid packages.

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