The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 399 Workbench Helps Ensure Students Stay in School at UTC “From my years of experience working with students, and helping them fill out their FAFSAs, I know they rarely do the same thing from one year to the next,” said Jennifer Buckles, Director of Financial Aid at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. When she heard about early FAFSA, prior-prior-year (PPY), and the potential for conflicting information, she knew roadblocks were ahead for her students—even though the altruistic intention of early FAFSA is to improve access to higher education. The “Unintended Consequences” of Early FAFSA and PPY The transition to early FAFSA and PPY has created a perfect storm of unintended consequences that will last exactly one year—and potent

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