2023 College Affordability Summit
College Affordability Summit
The 4th Annual California College Affordability Summit (Summit) in partnership with the Riverside County Office of Education, the Education Trust-West, and the California Department of Education will take place on November 7 & 8, 2023 at the Riverside Convention Center in Riverside, CA. The Summit will provide K-12 educators, high school counselors, college financial aid administrators, student advocates, and policy leaders with updates, resources, and tools for the upcoming 2024-2025 application cycle.
Session themes will cover the following areas:
- Breaking barriers for student college success
- Building bridges to connect students to resources
- Making college affordable
- Understanding the Better FAFSA and enhanced California Dream Act Application
Summit Schedule
Tuesday November 7, 2023
9:40 a.m. – 12:50 p.m. |
Campus Tour at University of California, Riverside (optional; only available for conference attendee) |
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Agenda |
11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Summit Early-Bird Check-in |
1:00 – 4:00 p.m. |
Pre-Summit Sessions offered concurrently: |
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Session I: Better FAFSA & Better CADAA Demo Training |
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Session II: Understanding and Supporting College Students’ Basic Needs |
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. |
Network Event |
Wednesday November 8, 2023
7:00 – 8:30 a.m. |
Check-in & Continental Breakfast College Affordability Resource Fair |
8:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
Welcome and General Session |
10:00 – 10:10 a.m. |
Transition |
10:10 – 11:00 a.m. |
Breakout Session I |
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1. Leveraging the Financial Aid tools on California
Colleges.edu |
11:00 – 11:10 a.m. |
Transition |
11:10 – 12:00 a.m. |
Breakout Session II |
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1. California’s Universal Financial Aid Policy: Stories
of the Inland Empire Best Practices and Data Analysis |
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch & Remarks |
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. |
Keynote Address |
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. |
Race to Submit Ceremony |
2:30 – 2:40 p.m. |
Transition |
2:40 – 3:30 p.m. |
Breakout Session III |
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1. Regional Collaboration to Increase Financial Aid
Completion |
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. |
Networking |
Sponsors
If you would like to be a sponsor of the 2023 College Affordability Summit, please view our College Affordability Summit Sponsorship Package and email Catalina Cifuentes at ccifuentes@rcoe.us.