The proposed panel includes four papers that examine two approaches to college access and matriculation. Two papers address an issue of college affordability. The other two manuscripts study the availability of additional college access resources for high school students. All four proposed studies look at new and existing practices of attracting students to post-secondary education and seem to fit well with the conference theme of “Global Challenges, New Perspectives.” The first two papers study financial aid and college pricing strategies. In one of them authors analyze federal financial aid programs (Pell grants and other Title IV programs) and their effect on college access for students pursuing their education online before, during, and after the recent Great Recession. This paper additionally addresses the impact of the federal financial aid on college pricing strategies (tuition and fees charged by the universities and availability of institutional grants). The second paper studies the changes in state student aid policies and tuition and fees increases during the period of the four recent major economic downturns of the early 1980s, early 1990s, early 2000’s, and the Great Recession and its aftermath. The other two papers study the effectiveness of additional college access resources for high schools students. The authors of one of these papers evaluate the effect of college counseling offered to students from Albuquerque Public Schools (Albuquerque, New Mexico) on college entrance. The other paper studies how college entrance, among other outcomes, is affected by the recent adoption of a technology-centered curriculum (Seamless Alignment and Integrated Learning Support, SAILS) that has replaced traditional 12th grade math courses in the state of Tennessee. Four papers proposed in the panel is a joint effort of eight professors and two students representing seven universities and one practitioner from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.