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 Melanie E. Corrigan
Director, National Initiatives
(202) 939-9554
Specialization: Access, College Costs, Educational Attainment, Federal
Student Aid, Higher Education Finance, Tuition, KnowHow2GO Campaign,
Solutions for Our Future
Melanie E. Corrigan is the
director of National Initiatives in ACE’s Division of Government
and Public Affairs. She is the project director of ACE’s national
public service campaign KnowHow2GO, which focuses on expanding
access to higher education, conducted in partnership with the Ad Council
and Lumina Foundation for Education. She also directs
ACE’s Solutions for Our Future, a national
campaign to increase public awareness of how American colleges and
universities serve the public.
Corrigan also conducts research on federal and national higher education
policy issues of interest to ACE members, policy makers, other higher
education associations, and the media. Her areas of expertise include
college access, student financing of higher education, federal student
aid, and higher education research. Corrigan is the author or co-author
of numerous reports, articles, and book chapters on student financing of
higher education, access and persistence in postsecondary education, and
the college presidency, including Beyond Borrowing: Understanding
Student Debt Burden; Persistence Challenges and the Diversity
of Low-Income Students; Student Success: Understanding
Graduation and Persistence Rates; and The American College
President. She is the co-editor of Changing Student Attendance
Patterns: Implications for Policy and Practice.
Corrigan has a master’s degree in public affairs from the LBJ
School at the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor’s
degree in economics from Smith College.
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