2023 Federal Government Financial Aid 
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Department of Education (ED) is delaying the sending out of student information relevant for financial aid calculations to institutions, higher ed scholars and officials have voiced concern and uncertainty over how this change will affect low-income and first-generation students in particular.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 27, 2022
It’s our job at VA and across the federal government to deliver on that promise, making sure that veterans and their families not only have access to affordable education through the GI Bill – but also that they are protected from education fraud and abuse. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries.
Robert Kelchen
APRIL 29, 2024
I have spent most of the last year digging into the topic of heightened cash monitoring (HCM), perhaps the federal government’s most important tool in its higher education accountability toolbox at this time. HCM places colleges’ federal financial aid disbursements under additional scrutiny in order to protect taxpayer dollars.
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.”
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 12, 2023
Since any associated policy changes could affect a much wider set of services than originally expected, we thought that we’d use this space to share what we think are the key points that university leaders across higher education need to understand about the potential impact of recent and anticipated actions by the federal government.
EAB
JUNE 13, 2023
June 13, 2023. EAB’s Kathy Ruby and Madeleine Rhyneer explore changes to FAFSA forms themselves and to how the federal government calculates eligibility for student financial aid. They highlight winners and losers under the new federal formula and examine how the changes may impact different types of institutions.
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