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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Another 100 more have indicated on their admissions application that they may have interest. Post-pandemic, we have more individual students coming to us than actual school contracts.” In the summer, certain EHS buildings have a Pell Grant rate for individuals who are Pell Grant eligible. EHS President and CEO Jeffrey H.

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These access and affordability programs geared toward high schoolers reap great results

University Business

Buoyed by a $20 million investment from the state, MCCS targeted high school graduates from 2020 to 2023 who might have been affected by the pandemic. The program is set to offer graduating seniors interested in pursuing jobs in high-demand industries 80% coverage of their tuition or up to $8,000 in grants.

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Fraud in academia: How can universities avoid costly litigation?

University Business

Any program, contract or grant involving government dollars can fall under the FCA. Though healthcare fraud is the largest type of FCA fraud, this article focuses on non-healthcare fraud in higher education: research and grant fraud, unlawful recruiting, failure to disclose ties to foreign governments, and cybersecurity failure fraud.

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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

SRHE

I took that to be mandatory, and it led to many staff being moved to ‘teaching only’ contracts. It also credits the ‘flourishing research base’ in HEIs, but a recent report from DBEIS making international comparisons of the UK research base shows that between 2016 and 2020, the UK publication share declined by 2.7% Impact 2014 42.9

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Death to DEI: Practical advice to higher education leaders during the rollback

University Business

In the wake of George Floyds murder in 2020, your college or university may have established thoughtful new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and initiatives. You may have hired chief diversity officers, added new content on your websites, and scheduled activities on your campus. 181 (2023).

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Feds Cancel Debts for 261,000 Students of Disgraced School Now Run by U. of Arizona (David Halperin)

Higher Education Inquirer

billion in loan debt cancellation for 261,000 borrowers who attended for-profit Ashford University between March 2009 and April 2020. It also announced it would seek to ban Andrew Clark, the CEO of Ashfords demised parent company, Zovio, from contracting with the federal government.

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Carl Barney, Ex-Owner of Deceptive For-Profit Colleges, Donates Big to Trump (David Halperin, Republic Report)

Higher Education Inquirer

In August 2020, following an extensive trial, a Colorado state court sided with that state’s attorney general and found CEHE, its CollegeAmerica school, Carl Barney, and CEHE CEO Eric Juhlin liable for deceptive practices and awarded a $3 million judgment. Soon after, the U.S. Department of Education restricted the flow of such aid.