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Recent financial aid increases lead to lower student net prices, per College Board

University Business

Adjusting for inflation, students today have paid less and borrowed less money to cover the price of net tuition than their peers throughout the last 20 years thanks to increasing avenues of financial aid, according to a comprehensive report from the College Board, “Trends in College Pricing and Student Aid 2024.”

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These are the states with the highest student enrollment rates

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Of the five states with the highest rate of college-going learners, four prove this is the case, especially regarding policies that provide higher rates of financial aid. since 2011, Utah has experienced gains in the past decade despite the pandemic, according to State Higher Education Finance (SHEF).

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Pushing to No Longer Keep Meredith College a ‘Best-Kept Secret’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She enjoys being able to see how budgets function, how admissions and financial aid operate, and how campus security is run. Jo Allen, the retiring president of Meredith College, enjoys the administrative part of higher ed. She enjoys being able to understand how higher ed works beyond just the academic parts. “I

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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over half a million – 579,000 to be exact – Black students have left the American higher education system since 2011. The precipitous, unrelenting decline in Black community college enrollment since 2011 is the canary in the mine for American higher education. But we need to look closer at the data.

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Report: Adult Community College Students Make Strides

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students could spend years in sequences of developmental education courses, using limited financial aid awards and personal resources without earning degree- and transfer-applicable credits and delaying enrollment in transfer-level courses— if they did not drop out first,” the brief noted.

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3 reasons state funding to public colleges is rising

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“Seeing additional increases in state support for higher education demonstrates a continued commitment in many states to fund financial aid and their public institutions,” SHEEO President Robert E. from an enrollment peak in 2011. .” from an enrollment peak in 2011. Anderson said in a public statement.

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Price check: Tuition is climbing again, but not as high as inflation

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That said, more colleges and universities raised tuition and fees in 2022-23 than in the previous two years, the College Board reports in its latest look at financial aid trends. How financial aid is impacting college tuition. In 2022-23, average sticker prices and fees are 1.8% higher for private nonprofit institutions.