Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Its advisers also support students through the financial aid process and the FAFSA application. “We Officials have counted 33,378 students who have returned to college since the program’s 2022 launch — more than 10% of them have completed their degree programs or are expect to this spring. million with a potential $2.9

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JULY 6, 2023

Fifteen institutions offer financial aid packages—whether need- or merit-based—that are too enticing to pass up. Specifically, the average financial aid offered by the 15 most rewarding colleges to undergraduate international students soars over $72,000 , according to U.S. News & World Report. Wellesley College Mass.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Iné Collins has been a school counselor at Ewing High School in New Jersey since August 2022. Institutions review the data and put together a financial aid offer, helping families decide which institution is the best fit for them and their wallets. Iné Collins, school counselor at Ewing High School in New Jersey.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Sean Decatur will be stepping down from his current role at the end of 2022 to become president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in April 2023. Dr. Sean M. Decatur Decatur has been the school’s president for almost a decade, his tenure having begun in 2013.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

percent decline from the record high reported in 2022, it demonstrates continued significant philanthropic support to the important higher education sector. CASE reported that the number of gifts totaling $100 million or more was higher than in 2022, the year institutions raised the most from gifts. Giving to U.S. of total support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2024

These learners often cannot use their financial aid to take courses at another college. Additionally, the model can save students money, as the costs of consortial courses are included in their tuition bills at their home institution and factored into financial aid offers.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

million to settle a lawsuit alleging that it conspired with other elite schools to limit financial aid for admitted students. The University of Chicago will pay $13.5 The school is the first defendant in the suit to settle, The Washington Post reported.

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MAY 20, 2024

million students during the 2022-23 application cycle year. This first Equity Innovations Guide illustrates results the organization has gathered from pilots and initiatives it had implemented over the years on matters of college admissions, financial aid, and equity. labor force.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Prompted by California Assembly Bill 2881, introduced by Senator Marc Berman in 2022, the legislation provided priority registration for students with dependents and mandated the development of a centralized webpage offering parenting students access to both on-campus and off-campus resources.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2024

To note, bias based on the former seems to be on the rise, as students were 19% more likely to see religious affiliation-based bias this year than in 2022. This marks a decrease from 30% in 2022 by a few percentage points. Non-binary students in particular faced social struggles, survey results showed.

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MARCH 8, 2023

Those seniors from TCHS will receive financial aid for a two- or four-year accredited, not-for-profit postsecondary institution – $5,000 in two payments for those attending a two-year community college and $10,000 in two payments for those attending a four-year school. Scholarships will be rewarded up to $10,000 each.

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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. Dr. Justin Jernigan, dean of student success at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC), said the plan to pursue HSI status, announced in 2022, was intentional.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

State higher education finance: FY 2022. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 48 (3), Article 4. link ) Financial aid policies, practices, and impacts Anderson, D. Experimental evidence on the impacts of need-based financial aid: Longitudinal assessment of the Wisconsin Scholars Grant. Kelchen, R.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

McNeal was the last to join – she did so in July 2022 – and her appointment solidified GCU’s 100% women deanship rate. GCU’s predominantly women-led culture and administration provides its student body – 73% identified as female in 2022 – with role models, Marbach said. "I And in 2022, women make up 67% of faculty.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The average return for all college endowments in fiscal 2022 was negative 8 percent, falling far short of the 30.6 NACUBO also found that colleges increased their endowment spending, with dollars increasingly flowing toward institutional operating budgets, largely focused on student financial aid. billion), Yale University ($41.3

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

At our Black-serving institution, the maintenance and operations team, primarily men of color, encourage students to apply for financial aid or recommend grabbing a free meal before heading off campus to work or to class. All employees see themselves as student success advocates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2023

The admissions office at the University of California, Los Angeles UC has accepted nearly 1,500 more minority students than in 2022 over its ten campuses, a bump of 4%. The university has also made large investments in our financial aid program to ensure access and affordability of a UC education.” of admits).

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

Lumina Foundation video series on federal financial aid: [link]. Financial aid and for-profit colleges: Does aid encourage entry? Financial aid policies, practices, and impacts. Experimental evidence on the impacts of need-based financial aid: Longitudinal assessment of the Wisconsin Scholars Grant.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

The students, Phi Theta Kappa’s 2021-2022 International Officer Team — a group of five peer-elected student leaders from across the nation — launched an advocacy campaign they called CCSmart. The stigma attached to community college attendance affects prospective student perceptions and the decisions they make about college attendance.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The committee worked through November 2022, holding internal and external meetings to create recommendations to adjust the funding model, which has not been revisited in Texas since the 1970s. “It It is absolutely time for us to be doing this,” says Martinez. It matters for the future of this great state.”

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

“Seeing additional increases in state support for higher education demonstrates a continued commitment in many states to fund financial aid and their public institutions,” SHEEO President Robert E. since 2022 and down 12.1% since 2022 and down 12.1% Anderson said in a public statement. million in 2023, down 0.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Adam Burns Through focus groups and a national survey, Continuing to Explore the Exodus from Higher Education – prepared for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – serves as an update about how sentiments on college have evolved for “non-enrolled” people, 18-to-30-year-old high school graduates who didn’t go to or left college, since 2022.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Nationally, the average Pell Grant award was $4,686 for the 2022–23 academic year; the maximum award was $6,895. million high school graduates—about 41 percent of the Class of 2022—didn’t complete the FAFSA. More than 1.65

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Adjusting for inflation, students today have paid less and borrowed less money to cover the price of net tuition than their peers throughout the last 20 years thanks to increasing avenues of financial aid, according to a comprehensive report from the College Board, “Trends in College Pricing and Student Aid 2024.”

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The first-to-second-semester retention rate for its 2022-23 cohort hit an all-time high of 83.8%, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. Minnesota is one of the latest states to offer its residents tuition-free access to postsecondary education through its aptly named North Star Promise.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2023

The other side involves dramatically increasing financial aid to lower the barrier to college entry and help prospective teachers graduate with less or no debt. Congress and state lawmakers should consider raising the floor on teacher salaries, similar to what was proposed in a 2022 House bill.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In April of 2022, for instance, NCAN reported that FAFSA renewals were down 12%. Behind the headaches The new FAFSA forms, which were meant to allow for a simpler application process for students and families, have left parents anxious over whether their children will receive the financial aid they need ahead of the fall semester.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Aurora University staff selected topics based on student feedback in focus groups and surveys and ran 12 sessions in 2022 and nine sessions across three tracks in 2023: Academic Support, Financial Wellness and Launching Your Career. Academic Support covered procrastination, test-taking and academic reading skills.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 23, 2023

Both Brown and Dartmouth listed test scores as “very important” factors in admission on their 2021-2022, post-pandemic reports. Do my test scores matter if I need financial aid? So when it comes to giving out financial aid, colleges tend to be more picky about whom they give that money to. Definitely.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

CPE’s 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows the graduation rate for URM in the Kentucky Community & Technical College System (KCTCS) increased 15 percentage points from the 2016-17 academic year to the 2022-23 academic year. Campuses are investing resources into financial aid and emergency support services.

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

million to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed against 17 prestigious private universities across the country accused of illegally running a scheme that limited the amount of financial aid given to students, according to the school’s financial statements for last year. Rice University has set aside $33.75

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re rethinking financial aid and student loans in new and innovative ways. According to data from the National Student Clearinghouse, undergraduate college enrollment dropped 8% nationwide from 2019 to 2022, despite the return to in-person classes. New models are emerging that place students at the center of all we do.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This is most evident in the design of student funding policies which often integrate parental income and financial contributions. In many countries, eligibility for financial aid is means-tested and based on family income ( Williams & Usher, 2022 ).

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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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