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Why did these 5 law schools improperly disburse over $2 million in financial aid?

University Business

Federal Student Aid discovered five law schools that improperly disbursed $2.9 million of ineligible federal financial aid funds to 92 students between 2017 and 2022. Without proper institutional accreditation, the freestanding law schools were never eligible to disburse such financial aid to students enrolled in the LL.M

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CUNY Program for High School Seniors Boosts College Enrollment

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The College and Career Bridge for All program started as a pilot in 2017 as a partnership between CUNY and the New York City Public Schools. The program connects seniors with trained college student mentors who help them with enrollment, financial aid paperwork and course registration, among other tasks.

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FAFSA: Five things to know

Hope College Network

If you need help paying for college, submitting your FAFSA is the first step in applying for financial aid from most colleges and universities in the United States. Those schools will then use your FAFSA data to prepare your financial aid package. When do I submit my FAFSA? What happens after I submit my FAFSA?

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Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017. They have access to financial aid counselors, college persistence counselors, and a life coach, and are placed into paid internships after they finish a professional development course. How has the college pulled this off?

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003. The racial gap in graduation rates is minimal.

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Know This For Next Week: Three-year degrees are advancing

University Business

These 2 Ivies report lower Black enrollment Higher ed leaders of highly selective institutions unsure about how their number of enrolled minority students will be affected in a post-affirmative action admissions space may be discouraged by news out of Harvard and Brown University.

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Practical Pedagogy Tips for Educators at Minority-Serving Institutions

The Scholarly Teacher

Learning to file for financial aid, apply to internal scholarships, or declare a major are opaque bureaucratic processes. Freire espouses a pedagogy enabling conscientização, or a critical consciousness that perceives oppressive elements of social, political, and economic realities (Freire, 2017). & Park, T.J. Penguin Books.

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