Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

million Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA ® ) forms have been successfully submitted since the 2024-25 redesigned application went live Dec. Department of Education. billion in aid and ensure that all students can access the maximum financial aid for which they are eligible. More than 3.1

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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.

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Today, in this guide, we’ll help you fully understand the college application in the US in 2024. College Application Process The United States of America’s higher education sector is subject to constant change and surfing these changes requires an optimistic mindset. Ready then? Let’s go! Key Steps in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Kim Cassidy Dr. Kim Cassidy will step down as president of Bryn Mawr College in June 2024, bringing to an end an 11-year tenure as the school’s leader, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. “I

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JULY 16, 2024

Leveraging SEO to Boost Your Institution’s Marketing Efforts It’s 2024, and we’re long past the dawn of the digital age. In the context of higher education, modern learners are a quick Google search away from answers to their most pressing questions. What Are Higher Education Keywords ?

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University Business

JUNE 24, 2024

In these days of rising skepticism around higher education, what makes a “Best Value College?” ” Academics, cost, financial aid, career services, graduation rates, student debt and alumni support, among other factors measured by the Princeton Review. Value, of course, extends beyond campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

We don’t want the unprecedented delays and changes in this year’s federal aid application process to deter them from coming to CUNY or any college." They will help high school seniors with the journey of applying to and entering college, including the financial aid process, according to CUNY officials. Matos Rodríguez. "We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s been a year of missteps, miscalculations, confusion, delays, glitches, and frustration after the botched launch of the simplified FAFSA, which has prevented financial aid packages from being awarded to students with ample time to make plans for their future. Last week, Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

[Editor's note: This article first appeared at the Kelchen on Education blog.] This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. The higher education finance landscape and data sources Chetty, R., Friedman, J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Among the 3,000 Hispanic students between the ages of 18 and 35 surveyed, the study highlighted systemic and institutional obstacles that these students face while navigating higher education. We must invest in supporting these students to ensure that higher education can deliver on its promise.” 16 and Sept. economy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

"We want to make sure that when we're expanding opportunities for everybody, we're doing it for all Minnesotans, regardless of background, regardless of their documentation status," said Senate Higher Education Chair Omar Fateh. high schools continue into higher ed, according to the Hechinger Report.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2023

“There’s a delay in the start of the form due to the complexity of simplification,” said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz. For the 2024-2025 school year, the FAFSA filing season will open in December, two months later than in previous years. Read more from NBC New York.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

Latino college students are more likely to be first-generation students and less likely to leave college having earned their degrees, according to a new report from Excelencia in Education. Many Latino students require financial assistance to attend college, the report noted. Of the Latino students in U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

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. The result of all the chaos could be a diminished freshman class entering postsecondary education in fall 2024 and a continued racial gap in educational achievement.

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Colleges and universities are trudging through inflationary construction costs to successfully reinvest in their existing facilities as students’ interactions with the campus community change in an ever-digitalized world, suggests data from the 11th edition of the State of Facilities in Higher Education report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Our proposal covers the cost of tuition so that financial aid and scholarship dollars can go further and help students pay for their living expenses,” said Lowery-Hart. That is a game changer.” Funds from the college’s proposed free tuition program would be the first dollars a student would receive to help cover the costs of college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education's 2024 Emerging Scholars shared sentiments of drive, hope, community, and validation during a webinar Thursday. To accompany the release of its 2024 Emerging Scholars magazine edition, Diverse hosted its first-ever panel for the 15 outstanding scholars it recognized this year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In July 2024, with the support of the Michelson 20MM Foundation, CSU launched the program, which is part of a longer-term agenda to help build the CSU as a system for supporting student parents. “I'm By Spring 2024, that number had increased to 9,600. Given that 19 percent of all college students, or 3.7

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University Business

APRIL 25, 2024

The education and real-life experience that come from travel are irreplaceable for students, as they acknowledge studying abroad is important for personal and professional development. The students we surveyed said they don’t feel fully informed about financial aid options and want their universities to do more to educate them on this.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2024

1 through a phased rollout, allowing the Office of Federal Student Aid to resolve any system errors that might arise before its official release. Instead, strained financial aid offices will have to submit individualized form corrections, a tall feat at large institutions with thousands of incorrectly filed forms.

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Robert Kelchen

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

And the uptick in the number of college closures in the last year or two has been obvious to nearly everyone in higher education. An out-of-scope college may choose to opt out of federal Title IV financial aid programs while remaining open; this is primarily the case among for-profit colleges.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 27, 2024

Strategies for Increasing Student Enrollment The traditional paradigms of higher education enrollment have shifted, driven by technological advancements and changing student demographics. Enrollment Strategies for Modern Students In many ways, higher education is defined by tradition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2024

Michael Koppenheffer The report draws on responses to EAB’s 2024 First-Year Experience Survey, which asked almost 13,000 2023 high school graduates a series of questions related to overall college student perspectives, experiences, and satisfaction. They're concerned about the return on investment in higher education.

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Creatrix Campus

OCTOBER 9, 2024

10 Key Benefits of Using Fee Management Software in Higher Education admin Wed, 10/09/2024 - 13:28 Tune In To Our Audio Blog Higher Education institutions are increasingly moving towards an automated age of cloud, mobile, and big data analytics. No more manual records or calculations on sheets of paper.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Food insecurity wasn’t a widely recognized problem in higher education and “student basic needs” wasn’t a field of practice. Students require and deserve far more than band-aids. The next step is to reach higher and work together. Let’s commit to that goal for 2024. What else can and should we do?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed, Drumm welcomes back Tom Netting, President of TEN Government Strategies, to discuss recent higher education policy changes and challenges, covering FAFSA, Title IX, FSA, IDR, SAVE, NC-SARA, NACIQI, PPA, TRIO, Clery Act, Gainful Employment, Title IV, the Chevron Decision, and more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

When the FAFSA Simplification Act begins to take effect this July, it’s expected to significantly affect the process of applying for financial aid, making the paperwork less complex and altering the formula for eligibility. States may respond by modifying their aid programs if they don’t want to pay more or cannot afford to.

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Alaska, Delaware, Nebraska, North Carolina and Iowa remain the only states without a higher education system in the alliance since it began in January 2010. With think tanks debunking recent narratives around higher education’s declining value, and reports asserting that 73% of the U.S.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 12, 2024

The report ranks the top 10 issues, including the value of higher education (3), state funding for financial aid programs (5), general college completion/student success (7), enrollment declines (8) and adult/nontraditional student success (10).

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 31, 2024

Fee Management System: 10 Important Advantages for Higher Education Leaders admin Thu, 08/01/2024 - 01:19 Implementing a fee management system may be a crucial step for higher education leaders to improve fee collections and increase revenue.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy. The 2024 Higher Education Matters Progress Report shows a 16.1

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In “The Student’s Perspective,” the prominent edtech company sought to understand what higher education stakeholders believed needed to be refined to maximize teaching and student support. As a result, surveys from 255 students and 251 higher ed leaders were considered.

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University Business

AUGUST 9, 2024

The annual “How America Pays for College 2024” report from lender Sallie Mae breaks down some of the finer details. Overall, families reported spending $28,409 on the 2023-24 academic year, which is only a few hundred dollars higher than 2022-23. More from UB: This year’s FAFSA delayed until Dec.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Gavin Newsom Undocumented students in California’s higher education system may soon be able to get a job in California’s public universities and colleges. I’m putting my time and energy into my education and volunteer efforts and living on campus on my scholarship and financial aid,” she says. Gavin Newsom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2024

Michael Koppenheffer EAB, formerly the Education Advisory Board, periodically surveys parents of students applying to college to understand their attitudes and the factors that influence their behaviors. Not understanding cost is a major source of anxiety and there is a rising aversion to debt.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Laura Moore, managing director of strategy and policy for the National Educational Equity Lab According to Laura Moore, managing director of strategy and policy for the Ed Equity Lab, HBCU offerings can be especially powerful for the high schoolers in the program. I think they bring that ethos to their work.”

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University Business

JUNE 11, 2024

In turn, they are losing the chance to break multi-generational cycles of poverty and other limits—the core promise of American higher education. The FAFSA fiasco of 2024 is a national emergency that has impacted states, campuses and families alike. It is also a crisis of our own making. The post We’ve fumed already.

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