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How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The recently released "Project 2025: The Conservative Promise" paints a dystopian picture of American higher education, overrun by a "woke" ideology that supposedly threatens our nation's very foundations. This could stifle critical thinking and limit students’ exposure to diverse perspectives.

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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. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 39 (3), 720-739. link ) Billings, M. Clayton, A.

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Colleges Ask Congress to Delay Gainful Employment Deadline

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) is calling on Congress to take legislative action and require the Education Department to give colleges until July 2025 to comply with the reporting requirements in the new gainful employment and financial value transparency rule.

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This year’s FAFSA delayed until Dec. 1 to ensure successful rollout

University Business

The Department of Education announced Thursday that the Simplified FAFSA form for the 2025-26 academic year will be widely available on or before Dec. A limited set of students and institutions will be granted entry beginning on Oct. 1, foregoing its traditional October start for a second year in a row, according to a statement.

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Making financial wellness a priority for student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Students also disproportionately use their financial aid offices based on their class year. Only 27 percent of the Class of 2022 (then graduating seniors) had never interacted with their financial aid office, compared to 50 percent of the Class of 2025, then first-year students.

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Dr. Dominique J. Baker, University of Delaware

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Her research focuses on the way that education policy affects and shapes the access and success of minoritized students in higher education. She primarily investigates student financial aid/finance, admissions policies, and policies that influence the ability to create an inclusive & equitable campus climate.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

Walsh) College Promise (Free Community College) College Tuition Advisory Services (CTAS) College Viability App (Gary Stocker) Con Job: Stories of Adjunct and Contingent Faculty Condemned to Debt (Richard Fossey) Confessions of a College Professor (Professor Doom) Debt Collective Deep Thoughts on Higher Education (Jeff Doyle) Diane Ravitch (K-12) Higher (..)