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Impact of Emergency Aid at Dallas College  \nJapbir Gill  \nThe Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University  \nTrey Miller  \nThe University of Texas at Dallas  \nJune 2022  \nIntroduction  \nAs the price of college and its associated costs continue to rise, students are often left without the necessary financial resources to succeed in class and cover their basic needs. According to previous research (Wesaw et al. , 2016), a student’s ability to cover essential expenses poses a significant barrier to degree completion. Often, the current financial aid system may not be able to provide rapid assistance to students facing an urgent financial emergency.  \nStudents’ ability to cover expenses hence prohibiting degree completion has prompted colleges and universities across the United States to implement programs that swiftly provide students with additional funds promptly through emergency aid programs (Dachelet & Goldrick-Rab, 2015) . While an abundance of previous literature (Geckeler et al. , 2008) has focused on emergency aid programs that were externally funded by foundations and other organizations, additional research (Wesaw et al. , 2016) noted that there was a significant gap in information on programs started and supported by an institution.  \nIn a 2015 study (Dachelet & Goldrick-Rab, 2015), survey data and interviews of emergency aid program administrators across the United States demonstrated that emergency aid programs are gaining popularity. Program administrators see them as effective, yet these programs face substantial problems. Initial findings from the first study of this specific emergency aid program in Los Angeles show promising results (Anderson, 2021) . Provided that institutions can distribute fast, equitable, and accessible funds, a well-implemented emergency aid program may contribute significantly toward persistence and completion.  \nResearchers also noted that there are some challenges in implementing an emergency aid program including defining an emergency, managing and delivering funds quickly, raising awareness of the program while sustaining limited funding, and collecting data to establish program effectiveness (Dachelet & Goldrick-Rab, 2015) . Students who need emergency aid the most are enrolled part-time and face substantial life challenges that may pose challenges for accessing emergency aid despite being eligible to receive it. This emergency aid program aims to address these issues by providing efficient distribution of relatively small dollars to address emergency needs of students with an easyto-use application for emergency aid, Edquity, Inc. The goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of receiving emergency aid to address a financial hardship through the Edquity application on student academic outcomes at a large community college system.  \nSettings and Intervention  \nDallas College, one of the largest community colleges in Texas, enrolls a racially, ethnically, and educationally diverse group of approximately 80,000 students with substantial needs for non-tuition services. While tuition at Dallas College is relatively low compared to other colleges and universities in the country, the cost of living is high. In fact, among the country’s twenty largest metropolitan areas, Dallas is the fifth most expensive despite having some of the most affordable housing (Manfield, 2020) .  \nSurveys of Dallas College students conducted before the pandemic (in fall 2016 and 2019) found that 58% of respondents experienced basic needs insecurity (Wisconsin HOPE Lab, 2016) . Despite an increase in available non-tuition supports offered by Dallas College over that period, basic needs insecurity did not markedly decline. A key reason seems to be that just 31% of students experiencing basic needs insecurity used campus supports. Furthermore, only 18% of students used the campus food pantry, ","cbCaic1lAwBzahBq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaic1lAwBzahBq","pdf",786961,"English","# Introduction\n# Settings and Intervention","[{\"question\":\"Why are emergency aid programs important for college students?\",\"answer\":\"Emergency aid programs help students facing urgent financial crises cover essential expenses quickly, supporting persistence and degree completion when traditional aid systems are too slow.\"},{\"question\":\"What was the setting for this study?\",\"answer\":\"The study took place at Dallas College during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, shortly after the district’s merger into a multi-campus institution.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the Edquity app determine eligibility and allocate aid?\",\"answer\":\"Edquity uses student-level information to compute a continuous need score, making high-to-moderate risk students eligible while declining not-at-risk students, then awarding aid based on highest need scores until funds run out.\"}]","Examining the Impact of Emergency Aid at Dallas College | PDF",1792052805,25]