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Amy Morona

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Higher education reporter for Signal Cleveland in partnership with Open Campus.

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Posted inOhio

New Ohio voting law could add another barrier for college students

By Amy Morona, Signal OhioMarch 13, 2023March 13, 2023

House Bill 458 is slated to go into effect next month.

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Posted inOhio

FAFSA completion rates back to pre-pandemic averages for CMSD students

By Amy Morona, Signal OhioMarch 2, 2023March 2, 2023

The current numbers, though, still lag state and national totals.

Posted inOhio

Graduate from Cleveland State or Tri-C? You’ll probably be sticking around.

By Amy Morona, Signal Ohio and April UrbanFebruary 22, 2023February 22, 2023

An upcoming report details how public institutions stack up when it comes to retention.

Posted inOhio

Cleveland State University looks to boost crisis response for students and community members

By Amy Morona, Signal OhioFebruary 21, 2023February 21, 2023

The university is set to receive a grant of more than $367,000 from the federal government for this work.

Posted inOhio

Local public colleges offered 9,000 people a path to return to college. Less than 2% took the help

By Amy Morona, Signal OhioFebruary 16, 2023February 16, 2023

The Ohio College Comeback Compact enrolled its first students in fall 2022.

Posted inOhio

What you need to understand about Cleveland’s ‘Say Yes’ program

By Amy Morona, Signal OhioFebruary 15, 2023February 15, 2023

The “Say Yes to Education” national initiative aims to boost college-going rates.

Posted inOhio

Cuyahoga Community College sees spring enrollment spike

By Amy Morona, Signal OhioFebruary 6, 2023February 6, 2023

Two-year public institutions like Tri-C saw some of the worst pandemic-era enrollment drops.

Posted inOhio

Have “some college, no degree” and want to go back to school? There’s help for that.

By Amy Morona, Signal OhioFebruary 2, 2023February 2, 2023

Having advanced education can better both individuals’ lives as well as the economic health of a city and region.

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‘We were the guinea pig generation’: How the pandemic shaped current college freshmen 

By Amy Morona, Signal Ohio, Daniel Perez, El Paso Matters, Emma Folts, and Ian HodgsonFebruary 1, 2023April 26, 2023

We asked first-year students from around the country one question: What is something they missed out on in high school because of the pandemic, and how did that affect their first semester in college?

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Posted inOhio

College students are going hungry amid higher grocery prices. Here’s one way Cleveland State University aims to help.

By Amy Morona, Signal OhioJanuary 12, 2023January 12, 2023

“Students have been cleaning off our shelves of items that are more expensive, items that they can’t purchase on their own,” one staffer said.

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