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= <span style="font-size:21.333333333333332px; font-family:Calibri; color:#2e75b5; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Strategy 2: Helping students in need of financial assistance.</span><br/> = <br/><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">We have identified that financial burdens can restrict a student from exploring opportunities and we want to change it starting with one student at a time.</span>

<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Creating a circle of life for the students</span></li>

<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">We look to create a system we call the ‘Circle of life’. This is how the system would work:</span>

<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">1. The college management provides need based scholarships along with the current merit based scholarships to students.</span>

<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">2.The students who have availed this assistance, once graduated and financially sound, will assist two other students of the college financially.</span>

<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">3. This would create a growing network or assistance sources.</span>

<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">4. Ideally, we will reach a stage where the college itself does not provide financial assistance, but the financial assistance comes purely from the passed-out students.</span>

<li><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:underline; vertical-align:baseline">On campus earning opportunities</span></li>

<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">We want to provide students with an opportunity to earn on campus through various ways such as teacher assistants, library and lab assistants after college hours.</span>

<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">This system would completely place responsibility on the student to earn and support themselves.</span>

<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">This system has proven to be feasible in campuses elsewhere and talks have already begun to implement it.</span>