Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

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. Each time, I have updated the readings considerably as the field is moving quickly and I figure out what works best for the students. Eight economic facts on higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

While some students have been able to navigate the new FAFSA within the ideal, reduced time-window of about 30 minutes, many other families encountered hiccups in the system, unable to send in paperwork due to unique familial circumstances or missing social security numbers for undocumented parents or students.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 2, 2025

I hope that everyone had a restful break and is excited to come back for what will undoubtedly be an eventful year in the world of higher education. To add to the excitement of the coming few months, I have the pleasure of teaching my PhD class in higher education finance again. Department of Education. Happy reading!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Art Coleman, co-founder of EducationCounsel Coleman was presenting as part of a webinar organized by the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, part of a series about the cases that could fundamentally re-align their work. Coleman was peppered with questions about what might happen and the potential implications.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 12, 2024

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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Higher Education Today

MAY 15, 2023

Read more » The post How Campuses Can Help Prepare Borrowers for the Resumption of Student Loan Repayments appeared first on Higher Education Today. NASFAA created.

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Higher Education Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

Title: Pell for Incarcerated Students Working Group Report Source: National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) The signing of the 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act canceled the ban on access to Pell Grants for formerly or currently incarcerated adults.

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University Business

MAY 15, 2024

If we’ve learned anything from this last year, it’s just how critical financial aid administrators are to ensuring students can access postsecondary education,” NASFAA President and CEO Justin Draeger said in a statement.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Nine out of 10 colleges either exclude or understate their net cost of attendance in student financial aid offers, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a government watchdog organization. CTI commits its member institutions to share the same principles when informing students about their college costs.

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Robert Kelchen

JUNE 15, 2023

I have the pleasure of teaching my PhD class in higher education finance again at Tennessee this summer. Our students take classes year-round, and I am offering the class in a condensed five-week format this summer to best meet the needs of our students. Here is the reading list I am assigning my students for the course.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 12, 2023

Colleges interested in providing prison education programs need to adapt their financial aid practices to best serve incarcerated students, according to a new report from the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

The Biden administration is best known for one thing: vastly overreaching its authority and then acting surprised when it gets pushback. Students reading this might recognize the names of potential third-party servicers like Blackboard or Canvas that could get swept up under the new definition and compliance regime. 15, the U.S.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2024

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. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona in a statement.

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University Business

MAY 24, 2023

Higher education gained an unlikely asset during the pandemic, and it came in the shape of billions of federal emergency funding. A new report by Bain & Company is forecasting the majority of higher education to be in a tough financial spot three years from now due to a confluence of operational challenges affecting institutions.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With the flurry of higher ed staff processing and packaging aid offers, reviewing financial aid appeals and counseling students on the changes, the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) is asking the Department of Education to work closely with financial aid offices to protect underresourced students from the lightning-quick (..)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Financial aid administrators at colleges and universities say a lack of time and guidance from the U.S. Department of Education are key barriers they’ll face in preparing to carry out the coming overhaul of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. 1—the launch date for the FAFSA since 2016.

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Higher Education Today

OCTOBER 17, 2022

For their analysis, NASFAA, Read more » The post New Report Evaluates Student and Campus Experiences With Federal COVID Relief Funding appeared first on Higher Education Today.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

NACUBO also found that colleges increased their endowment spending, with dollars increasingly flowing toward institutional operating budgets, largely focused on student financial aid. Colleges tapped into their endowments for a variety of reasons, but primarily for student financial aid.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The decision drew dissent from CSU’s faculty union and students who are already struggling with their current expenses, but university officials defended the decision, stating that the tuition raise will help CSU continue supporting student financial aid and academic success programs. tuition increase.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Department of Education is supposed to release an updated version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid in October, but organizations representing financial aid officers and college access groups are seeking to confirm that timeline. 1, as currently planned. 1, as currently planned.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

Image: The new version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid won’t be available to students until December, the Education Department confirmed this week. “A delayed release date could compound that confusion and result in a decline in applicants for federal student aid,” the coalition wrote.

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Higher Education Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) recently released its annual publication outlining student aid available at the federal level. NASFAA aims to increase awareness.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

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. Instead, he teaches students how to manage money thoughtfully and carefully. Share here. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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University Business

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Administrators should also take heed of the fact that the GAO is urging Congress to require colleges and universities to provide clear, standard information in all financial aid offers. “The GAO report highlights the ways schools are falling short in communicating college costs to students. Here are 5 solutions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: I write regarding Wesley Whistle's December essay urging Congress to step in to improve the transparency of financial aid letters. Department of Education and still would have failed to meet the 10 standards issued by the GAO. In the meantime, why wait? Justin Draeger.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Making Sure Your Institution Is Ready for Online Student Success With Archer’s Readiness Assessment On the crowded highways of higher education, institutions are continually having to navigate through critical construction zones. It’s a blend of foresight, flexibility, and focused execution.

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University Business

JUNE 17, 2024

Department of Education quickly enacted emergency regulations allowing students to continue with their education online —a revolutionary development that provided a lifeline to institutions and students alike. At the start of the pandemic, the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

The institutions lost 13 percent of their employees nationally from January 2020 to April 2022, according to an estimate from EAB, a higher education consulting firm. She also noted that a growing lack of financial aid officers at the colleges risks slowing down the processing of student financial aid paperwork.

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University Business

MAY 15, 2023

Today, nearly one-third of parents and students believe that a college education is overpriced, and 81% of families crossed a school off their list at some point due to cost, according to a Sallie Mae and Ipsos study. Schools can also market the Department of Education’s net price calculator.

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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. Turner, N., &

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Edu Alliance Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Don Hossler, a Senior Scholar at the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice in the Rossier School of Education, at the University of Southern California. Hossler also holds the rank of Distinguished Provost Professor Emeritus in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Indiana University.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Among higher education’s most recent presidential comings and goings, we have a mix of vetted academics and professionals who draw on the wealth of their outside experience. Lynch is a first-generation student and native New Yorker, earning his baccalaureate and doctoral degrees from CUNY colleges. president. “It

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Parchment

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Credit for Prior Learning has long been utilized by higher education to award credit for work, life or training experience. We’ll see under the new administration, everything I’m hearing that my ears are open to and that I’m reading is that it will probably be a sooner rather than later priority.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Baker is an associate professor of education and public policy with a joint appointment in the College of Education & Human Development and the Joseph R. School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware. Dominique J.

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Edu Alliance Journal

JANUARY 25, 2022

January 25, 2022, by Don Hossler Philip Kotler, considered by many higher education professionals to be the Godfather of modern university admissions marketing, urged professionals in the field to consider the 4P’s when putting together a recruitment marketing plan. The 4P’s stand for: Product Place Price Promotion. Edu Alliance Group, Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic dawned in Spring 2020, the federal government granted institutions of higher education a series of waivers and flexibilities that allowed them to continue functioning under radically different conditions. This adjustment may be an administratively complex process. It sort of starts a clock.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: The new version of the Free Application of Student Aid might not be ready by Oct. 1, Federal Student Aid officials said Tuesday, though the agency is planning to launch the application in the fourth quarter of this year. 1, as it has since 2016. 1 launch, adding that the office has a lot going on.

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