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Your story matters.
Share your experience with higher education.
The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) is currently seeking video and written testimonies from people who have navigated higher education and grappled with how to pay for it.
What have been your hidden costs to earning a college degree? What do you want policymakers to know? We want to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly. The stories you share will help to fuel a new, national storytelling campaign that aims to get real stories in front of people crafting education policy and influencing who higher education serves and how.
TICAS works to advocate for student-centered public policies nationally, and by sharing your story today you’re helping us to shape a better system. If we include your story in our campaign, we’ll follow up and let you know how it’s being used. Thank you for being brave and raising your hand.
Share your story.
Consent
There is a chance your story will be shared in state and/or national storytelling projects that work to improve access and affordability of higher education. By submitting your story, you agree to being featured, which could include print and digital media components and possibly nationwide distribution. Anything that you submit becomes the property of TICAS and TICAS reserves the right to share all submitted materials without additional consent in perpetuity.
College isn’t failing.
The support around it is.
For millions, access to opportunity, stability, and careers requires a little help.
But that promise is increasingly undermined by economic and structural realities.
Students are grappling with rising living costs. Parents pursuing higher education contend with a nationwide child care shortage. Borrowers working to repay loans are left on hold in broken systems of repayment and forgiveness.
Access to higher education has never been perfect.
But past policies can show us how a more just and effective system might be reimagined.
There is a lot at stake if we do not act now. When aid systems break, students fall behind. When students fall behind, communities are diminished. When communities are diminished, the nation loses ground.
How has access to college changed your life?
How did education move you forward? What doors did college open for you? How are you coping with your loans?
We want to hear your story.
The good. The bad. The ugly. What you share will help shape how we talk about higher education, defend what works, and fix what does not. Your stories will inform communications, policy efforts in the months ahead.
