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The Missing Link to Scaled Excellence and Equity in Community College Student Outcomes: A National Leadership Development Strategy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Even the federal government should get in the leadership development game, challenging and supporting states to develop a new generation of highly effective, diverse presidents. Universities need to reorient doctoral programs, teaching less theory and technical skills and more about how to lead scaled student success reforms.

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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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House weaponization subcommittee seeks records from universities

Confessions of a Community College Dean

universities are getting swept up in House Republicans’ investigation into the “weaponization” of the federal government. ” House Republicans formed the ​​Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government this year in order to investigate violations of civil liberations.

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How to keep moving when higher ed data dries up

University Business

The College Scorecard, a 2015 tool created by the U.S. Leaders can build local and collective capacity to tell their stories well, with or without federal scaffolding. They were a message that the federal government may no longer serve as the guarantor of higher educations data.

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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