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My 2025 Higher Ed Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

The invisible colleges revisited: An empirical review. State investment in higher education: Effects on human capital formation, student debt, and long-term financial outcomes of students. link ) Financial aid policies, practices, and impacts Anderson, D. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 51 (2), Article 2.

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Community colleges suffer from employee shortages

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. The institutions lost 13 percent of their employees nationally from January 2020 to April 2022, according to an estimate from EAB, a higher education consulting firm.

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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

The invisible colleges revisited: An empirical review. State investment in higher education: Effects on human capital formation, student debt, and long-term financial outcomes of students. Intended and unintended consequences of for-profit college regulation: Examining the 90/10 rule. link ) Gándara, D. Kelchen, R.,

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Here are states’ top 10 priorities for higher education in 2024

University Business

. “While campus leaders throughout the country confront these macro-level challenges, their financial outlooks increasingly diverge based on enrollment demand, revenue diversity, and institutional resources,” the report reads. State operating support for public colleges and universities.

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My 2023 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

The last three times that I taught the course ( spring 2022 , spring 2020 , and fall 2017 ), I shared my reading list for the class on this blog. State investment in higher education: Effects on human capital formation, student debt, and long-term financial outcomes of students. Students pay the price if a college fails.

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Education Department releases draft version of FAFSA

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Still, a combination of technology and legislative changes should lead to a simpler process to fill out the application, which is essential for students to access need-based federal and state financial aid. The draft materials include a similar FAFSA for incarcerated students.

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New FAFSA won't launch until December

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The department’s Office of Federal Student Aid released a road map outlining key dates and milestones over the next several months, ending with the launch of the new application in December. That overhaul includes simplifying the underlying formula used to determine aid eligibility.