Cost of Attendance and Insecurity; The Difficult Choices Students Have to Make

Jaime Hansen - Swipe Out Hunger
John Delate - SUNY Adirondack Community College

The Cost of Attendance (COA) is not just tuition and fees. It also includes room, board, course materials, transportation, and student health insurance. These are not covered in institutional aid and reported discount rate. Therefore, these are the areas of focus that are shaved by students to remain in school. But it creates the challenges of not only food insecurity, but housing insecurity, and medical insecurity that impacts retention of students and ultimately tuition revenue. This panel discussion of leaders in these spaces will share best practices to combat these challenges on our campuses.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify the various "insecurities" impacting our institutions retention rates, enrollment, and tuition/non-tuition revenue.
2. Define each specific area of the Cost of Attendance and demonstrate the respective importance to our institution’s financial sustainability.
3. Describe best practices to support students’ respective insecurities and increase retention, tuition, and non-tuition revenue

CPE Available

• 1 Credit: Economics