Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

An additional 1,600-1,700 students at Emory University received grants and scholarships instead of loans in their financial aid packages this fall, the Atlanta-based institution announced recently, more than doubling the number of undergraduates expected to finish school with limited or no debt. This allows us to enroll those students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2023

Diversity of the US Public Health Workforce Pipeline (2016-2020): Role of Academic Institutions ,” developed by researchers at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) looked at public health student diversity from 2016-2020 using a Diversity Index (DI).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2023

Now, new data from the 2020 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study has provided the first nationally representative picture: more than one in five undergraduates experience food insecurity. This has led to students getting less financial aid than need. Their estimates are wrong,” said Goldrick-Rab. “If

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

State investment in higher education: Effects on human capital formation, student debt, and long-term financial outcomes of students. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 48 (3), Article 4. link ) Financial aid policies, practices, and impacts Anderson, D. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 51 (2), Article 2.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

These two-year and four-year institutions must also enroll a significant number of students who require needs-based financial aid. Northern Arizona University (NAU) received HSI status in 2020, which Dr. José Luis Cruz Rivera, NAU’s president, said was very much intentional. The college also has two bilingual peer mentors.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Following a brief recession in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, historical patterns following economic recessions reversed in 2021, ’22 and ’23, the research adds. Anderson said in a public statement. million in 2023, down 0.5% since 2022 and down 12.1% from an enrollment peak in 2011. in 2023 and has declined 9.4%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2024

Despite college satisfaction among students now recovering to pre-pandemic rates – 84% expressed satisfaction in 2024 compared to 68% in 2020 – students of various demographics reported differing levels of satisfaction, according to the report. Another factor contributing to students’ choices to not enroll was cost.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Yet, the 2020 census revealed Texas to be one of the fastest growing states in the nation. An additional four million residents arrived between 2010 and 2020, mostly in communities of color. The population growth in Texas was in urban and suburban areas,” notes Martinez. It matters for the future of this great state.”

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Higher Education Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Title: 52nd Annual Survey Report on State-Sponsored Student Financial Aid, 2020-2021 Academic Year Author: National Association of State Student Grant Aid Programs The National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs (NASSGAP) recently released an annual survey report on state student aid programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Morehouse is the most recent addition to the program, which has included Howard University since 2020 and Spelman College since 2022. Although 90% of the high schoolers in the Ed Equity Lab’s program are students of color, roughly half of them had been unaware of HBCUs, according to a recent survey. The Lab is looking to change that.

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University Business

DECEMBER 2, 2024

More from UB: How better accountability can propel innovative short-term credentials In fact, students today are paying and borrowing less to cover their net tuition price thanks to increases in financial aid over the past 20 years, per College Board. These state and federal appropriation increases lead us to our next myth.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Dr. Amanda Ellis joined CPE in 2020 as vice president of K-12 policies and programs. We have excellent outcomes on that; we have great support from our legislature that provides a dual credit scholarship that removes financial barriers,” says Ellis. Campuses are investing resources into financial aid and emergency support services.

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University Business

MAY 1, 2023

The changes fulfill legislation passed in 2020 aiming to make student aid easier to get. While students overall will gain billions in funds, students with siblings in college likely could lose some financial aid, according to a recent analysis by the research group Brookings Institution. Read more from USA Today.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

I am beyond excited to be back in the (virtual) classroom this spring, as I get to teach a course for the first time since spring 2020. The last two times that I taught the course ( spring 2020 and fall 2017 ), I shared my reading list for the class on this blog. Lumina Foundation video series on federal financial aid: [link].

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Robert Kelchen

JUNE 15, 2023

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. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 48 (3), Article 4.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions.

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University Business

JANUARY 30, 2024

Financial aid officers’ ability to process FAFSA forms is the only way for prospective students and their parents to know what kind of federal aid they can expect from a specific school. billion in aid will now be available to students. While the Department touted that over 3.1 As a result, approximately $1.8

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University Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

State support for higher education decreased in more than half of all states between 2020-22 when adjusted for inflation, destroying momentum built over the last two decades. State operating support for public colleges and universities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Image: Financial wellness may not be the first area that comes to mind when thinking of well-being, but it is considered one of the eight dimensions of wellness. Inside Higher Ed spoke with three financial aid professionals about their best strategies to strengthen this area for students. What Is Financial Wellness?

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University Business

MARCH 19, 2024

Of the five states with the highest rate of college-going learners, four prove this is the case, especially regarding policies that provide higher rates of financial aid. average, the amount of financial aid distributed to each full-time enrolled Utah student is better aligned with its overall percentage of appropriations.

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University Business

AUGUST 7, 2023

Students surveyed were enrolled in institutions participating in federal financial aid programs between July 2019 and June 2020. The Hope Center found that more than half of students struggling with basic needs in 2020 didn’t apply for any support programs because they didn’t know how.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

All public high school seniors in the state became eligible in 2020 in response to the pandemic. 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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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

percent from 2020 but still down from more than four million in 2019. And the gains have come despite the fact that community college workforces have continued to shrink, dropping by more than 4 percent over all since 2020 and by nearly 6 percent among instructors. Colleges employed 3.9 million people in 2022, up 1.75

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University Business

JUNE 26, 2024

” With about 27% of Western New England’s students being Pell-eligible, its financial aid office bypassed the FAFSA form this application season. “It remains to be seen what this will do,” he says, “but the impact right now, if you look at FAFSA filing, is shaping up to be very similar to 2020.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

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. She and others still want a specific date.

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University Business

APRIL 11, 2024

As much as this experience has eroded their confidence in the Department and left financial aid offices in a state of limbo, they did not mince words about how it will have a lasting impact on the enrollment of the country’s neediest students. In a strange stroke of luck, 2020 has compared Harper to this moment.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

The report, released Monday, notes that a national student survey conducted by the Hope Center in 2020 found that only 18 percent of students who reported experiencing food or housing insecurity were enrolled in SNAP. Meanwhile, 26 percent of students facing these challenges said they hadn’t even heard of the program.

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The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 27, 2022

Learning to file for financial aid, apply to internal scholarships, or declare a major are opaque bureaucratic processes. Ostorga, Zúñiga, & Hinton, 2020), yet less research discusses parallel. For these students, university life is potentially shocking. Office hours” are an unfamiliar term. institutions? identities (e.g.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The silver lining for many students is that the university is also expanding financial aid, raising the income threshold for free tuition, room and board from $75,000 to $100,000. ” According to Stanford’s website, about two-thirds of students receive some form of financial aid.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

Of UD Sinclair Academy’s 2020 and 2021 cohorts, 96 percent received their bachelor’s degrees. Kessler Scholars, on top of the academy’s benefits, will also receive financial aid, personalized services, support network orientation and stipends for academic expenses. million to support the UD Sinclair Academy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

percent was allocated to financial aid, and 11.4 billion of federal funding to higher ed, bringing the total federal stimulus money allocated to higher ed between 2020 and 2023 to $8.8 It's the second time state support for higher education has topped $100 billion. percent), Mississippi (26.6 percent), New Mexico (23.5

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 25, 2025

In 2020, the University of Arizona acquired Ashford University , an online for-profit college that a California court later found guilty of having deceived students about job prospects, transfer opportunities, and degree costs. This complaint was still unresolved by the time University of Arizona acquired it in 2020.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

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. percent, from 308,567 professors in fall 2019 to 281,932 in fall 2020, according to a report from the American Association of University Professors.

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University Business

JUNE 12, 2023

Their concerns aren’t unfounded: Average assessment scores between 2020 and 2022 have dropped by 5%, the largest ever recorded by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). While enrollment seems to have either increased or steadied in 2022, the 5-year decline is driven by a massive drop in 2020.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

The study defines a good job as one that pays a minimum of around $38,000 in 2020 for workers younger than age 35. Providing more financial aid and more information about financial aid can help prospective students make a true risk assessment. The median pay is around $57,000 annually.

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

A shrinking talent market Community colleges have been especially hard hit by the Great Resignation, showing a 13% staff decline from 2020-2022, as a consequence of failed searches , difficulty filling part-time positions , and shortages in student services professionals. rate in 2020. rate for students starting in fall 2009, and a 52.4%

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