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Lauren Asher, president of the Institute for College Access and Success, said Tuesday she will step down as head of the organization after June.
Asher has spent 12 years at the nonprofit organization, serving as president since 2009, when the TICAS board named her to replace Bob Shireman.
She said the group had grown "from a scrappy start-up to a central voice" on issues such as student loan and financial aid policy and access to college.
"I’m so proud of what we’ve accomplished together and the organization TICAS has become," she said in a message announcing her departure. "And our student-centered, data-driven and outcomes-oriented approach to financial aid policy and practice is needed now more than ever. I know TICAS will continue to have a major impact: fighting to make education and training more affordable and successful, not less, and standing up for the most economically vulnerable students and borrowers."
