Senior Policy Analyst, Higher Education
Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee is the senior policy analyst for higher education at GBPI, where she focuses on state policies that provide Georgians greater opportunity to complete a higher education credential regardless of race, ethnicity and family income.
Prior to joining GBPI in 2017, she was research associate and director of the Texas Kids Count Project at the Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin, Texas. She graduated from Wellesley College and holds a master’s in public affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Recent Posts by Jennifer Lee
Fast Facts on HOPE – 2020
HOPE At-a-Glance provides a quick and simple reference of the state’s six lottery-funded HOPE programs. HOPE provides grants ...
Fast Facts on Student Access Loans
Student Access Loans (SAL), or Low-Interest Loans, are student loans funded by lottery dollars. The program ...
Keeping Pre-K Stable Helps Georgia Children and Parents
Key Takeaways Agency budget proposals for lottery-funded programs included no cuts to HOPE and $53 million in cuts ...
Commonsense Solutions Can Mitigate Unprecedented Cuts to Higher Education
Key Takeaways Pending budget cuts to the University System of Georgia have the potential to reverse years of ...
State Agency Approves New Dual Enrollment Caps, Grade-Level Restrictions and SAT/ACT Deadlines for HOPE
The Georgia Student Finance Commission (GSFC) Board of Commissioners approved several policy changes to Dual Enrollment, HOPE and ...
Students Need to Be Secure to Be Successful
The coronavirus pandemic reveals the fragile financial situations of many Georgia college students. Many Georgia students struggle to ...
Federal Relief Not Enough to Meet College Students’ Financial Needs
Since publication of this blog post, the federal Department of Education allocated a second pot of relief dollars ...
Child Care Policy Changes in Response to COVID-19 Crisis
This blog was co-authored by Senior Policy Analyst Alex Camardelle Key Takeaways Georgia’s child care system is fiscally ...
How the Federal Relief Package Affects Higher Education
Congress passed a $2 trillion relief package that includes provisions covering health care, payments to American families and ...
Every Georgian Deserves Access to Higher Education
Co-authored by Policy Fellow Stephanie Angel and Senior Policy Analyst Jennifer Lee Diana graduated from Gainesville High School ...
Unused Lottery Funds Available to Support More Affordable Access to College
Since FY 2011, lawmakers have appropriated an average of $60 million more every year for HOPE Scholarships and ...
College Affordability and Completion Day at the Capitol
The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute and the National Pan-Hellenic Council of Greater Atlanta will host its first ...
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