Alabama taps oracle cloud to help high school grads secure financial aid

State already seeing strong increase in students applying for federal financial aid with the support of oracle student financial planning austin, texas , april 19, 2022 /prnewswire/ -- in 2021, an estimated $67.8 million in pell grants were left unclaimed by eligible alabama students who did not finish the free application for federal student aid (fafsa).1  to combat this challenge, the state has made completing the fafsa a graduation requirement and is using oracle student financial planning (sfp) to manage the process. already, alabama has seen a 21.9 percent increase in fafsa completions in april 2022 versus the same time last year — the second highest increase of any us state.2 "our primary goal is to ensure all students can pursue post-secondary education by obtaining needed funding," said dr. jim purcell, executive director, alabama commission on higher education.
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