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Endowment Returns Down for Fiscal Year 2022, Especially for Schools with Less

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The decline comes after a spectacular performance in fiscal year 2021, when endowment returns increased by 30.6% The largest percentage, 46%, went to student financial aid, with academic programs and research following at 15.6%. on average. 64% of these were institutions with endowments of $250 million or less.

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My 2025 Higher Ed Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

FAFSA and beyond: How advisers manage their administrative burden in the financial aid process. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 51 (2), Article 2. College costs, financial aid, and student decisions. The Heritage Foundation.( link ) Schanzenbach, D. Bauer, L., & Breitwieser, A.

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Supporting Incarcerated Students With Second Chance Pell

Higher Education Today

Title: Pell for Incarcerated Students Working Group Report Source: National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) The signing of the 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act canceled the ban on access to Pell Grants for formerly or currently incarcerated adults.

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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

Journal of Student Financial Aid, 48 (3), Article 4. FAFSA and beyond: How advisers manage their administrative burden in the financial aid process. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 51 (2), Article 2. College costs, financial aid, and student decisions. Working paper.

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Huge college attainment growth missed one group’s big goal

University Business

About a quarter of all aid that goes toward higher education in Kentucky goes toward student financial aid. Teach financial literacy: The state education department created a website to provide resources to assist schools to implement the financial literacy standards.

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College endowments dropped in fiscal year 2022

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Soaring inflation put a squeeze on college endowments in the 2021–22 fiscal year, driving returns down, according to the annual report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers The report , released today, is a marked change from the booming returns of fiscal year 2021 , when endowments soared.

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State Financial Aid Rises Slightly

Confessions of a Community College Dean

billion in student financial aid in the 2021–22 academic year, a 1 percent increase compared to the year before, according to an annual survey by the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, an association of state agencies that administer state-appropriated financial aid dollars.