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Higher Ed Organization Leaders to Form Task Force to Address Financial Aid Confusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ted Mitchell Higher ed institutions often use different terminology and guidelines when providing financial aid information. The “Paying for College Transparency Initiative” seeks to improve clarity, accuracy, and consistency of student financial aid offers.

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FAFSA delayed until Dec. 31: How does this complicate your admissions team?

University Business

Colleges and universities’ admissions and enrollment teams were already preparing for one of the most complicated years in financial aid history with the release of FAFSA Simplification. 31: How does this complicate your admissions team? 31, nearly three months deferred from its usual date.

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Advocating Policy, Better Than Before

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Manny Rodriguez His job entails research and collaboration with other education groups, state legislators, and education officials in accordance with TICAS’s mission to increase college access, affordability, and success through improvements in student financial aid policies.

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NADOHE Panel: Colleges Must Prepare for Affirmative Action Verdicts Now

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

University of North Carolina , the cases that could re-shape the role of race in admissions or even ban it entirely, are not likely to be known until next June. Could it prevent DEI offices from funding ethnic student resource centers and programs? The Supreme Court’s decisions in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v.

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Are your school’s hidden costs spooking students? Here’s how to tell it to them straight

University Business

But what bugs students about college costs isn’t just that it’s expensive; it’s because they rarely understand by how much. With how significantly students today regard colleges’ costs and scholarship packages when making their enrollment decision, it may prove wise to take a more transparent approach to student costs.

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Change Readiness Assessment: Staying Strategic Through Constant Change

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

University Admissions Questionnaire Evaluate your admissions requirements and processes across involved teams. How does your university handle financial aid? Can you provide demographic or psychographic information on your online student population? Student Support Questionnaire What forms of payment are allowed?

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New FAFSA won't launch until December

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“While this one-time delayed release of the 2024–25 form will call on us to be flexible in a compressed time frame for aid and admission applications and decisions, we understand the need to launch the significant changes ahead in a tested, secure way,” Cook said.