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New Research on Heightened Cash Monitoring

Robert Kelchen

We compared colleges placed on HCM2 to colleges that were not on HCM2, but had failed the federal financial responsibility metric (and thus also had issues identified by the federal government). It was a lot of work for no clear findings, but that is pretty typical when studying institutional responses to government policies.

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Harvard Professor Convicted for Hiding Chinese Money Retires

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Lieber hasn’t yet been sentenced for his December 2021 convictions for knowingly making false statements to the federal government, willfully filing false tax returns and willfully not disclosing that he had authority over a Chinese bank account. He was set to be sentenced March 2, but that is being rescheduled.

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Iowa Wesleyan University announces closure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Reynolds added that if the state had “provided the federal funding as requested and it was used to finance debt or other impermissible uses according to US Treasury guidelines, the state and taxpayers could have been liable for potential repayment to the federal government.”

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How higher education leaders can institute and support financial literacy programs for their student body

Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

Financial Literacy and Education Commission, between the academic years of 2004-2005 and 2015-2016, the cost of undergraduate tuition, fees, and room and board at public institutions rose 34%. This means that more students have taken on debt to pay for college—much of which consists of federal government loans totaling more than 1.5

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Social Security Offsets and Defaulted Student Loans (CFPB)

Higher Education Inquirer

The Debt Collection Improvement Act set a minimum floor of income below which the federal government cannot offset Social Security benefits and subsequent Treasury regulations established a cap on the percentage of income above that floor. 65 For those that do apply, only a fraction get relief.

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5 Focus Areas for Campus Presidents Amidst Decreasing Trust

Campus Sonar

And no wonder—in 1990, state-per-student funding was almost 140% more than that of the federal government. But in the last two decades, the gap between state and federal funding narrowed, with state funding per student only 12% above federal levels in 2015.

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Insights for Higher Ed Presidents: A Fireside Chat with Brit Kirwan: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 184 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. "Brit" Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

He served as chancellor of the University System of Maryland (USM) for 13 years (2002-2015), president of the Ohio State University for four years (1998-2002), and president of the University of Maryland, College Park for 10 years (1988-1998). It was a difficult job back in 2015. So he sues the Federal government about the law.