Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

From a macro perspective, higher education oversight operates as a three-legged stool held up by the states, the federal government and accrediting agencies, collectively known as the triad, all charged with protecting the interests of students, taxpayers and the public.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students. These legislative actions have been perceived as direct attacks on academic freedom, faculty rights, and the sanctity of tenure.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

They also talk about the careers with the best ROI and how those with liberal arts degrees fare by comparison. Podcast Highlights Michael draws on his background as the former director of the College Scorecard program during his time in the Obama Administration to create user-friendly reports, utilizing the dataset’s 2,000 variables.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

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. Jennifer Nájera Another step forward came in 2013 with the passing of the California Dream Act, which made undocumented students eligible to apply for state financial aid.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

College presidents and other high-level administrators have been active in negotiated rule making in the past, so this is a matter higher education leaders should particularly watch in 2023. A: My book is based on research I’ve conducted into the federal government’s role in higher education throughout history and today.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid for potentially deceptive practices.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Image: If the Biden administration wants to create a list of “low-financial-value” postsecondary programs, it’s going to have to overcome stiff opposition from the higher education lobby, which decried the plan as a slippery slope, problematic and potentially dangerous.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

Image: The Biden administration is moving forward on a sweeping plan to overhaul how student borrowers can repay their loans, though advocates want the Education Department to go further in its plan, while critics cite the price tag as an area of concern. Over all, the changes are expected to have a net budget impact of $137.9

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 25, 2022

A report by Yale faculty points to the possibility that university administrators have proliferated, while faculty salaries and budgets have stagnated. They don’t make a financial plan. They research colleges without any understanding of how financial aid works, or how rare those scholarships really are. Hope and dreams.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The federal government’s COVID assistance played a critical role in temporarily sustaining institutions, particularly smaller colleges, which otherwise faced the risk of closure. million in the first round of COVID relief funds, underscoring the significant impact of these aids.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: Nearly a decade after the Obama administration broached the idea of rating colleges and universities, the Biden administration is ready to take another crack at the historically fraught concept. The Obama administration didn’t end up rating institutions after opposition from higher education groups and others.)

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The discussion highlights the Biden-Harris administration’s active role in Negotiated Rulemaking since late 2020, bringing about a comprehensive set of regulations affecting higher education. The Higher Education Act (HEA) was signed into law in 1965 and is supposed to be renewed every five years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

From 2020 to 2022, the federal government distributed nearly $80 billion to higher education institutions through three rounds of HEERF funding, with community colleges receiving $25 billion of that total. The 39 institutions analyzed in the study received about $765 million for direct student aid and $1.9

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Carter assured that current student scholarships and financial aid will not be affected by these changes. Trump's administration with a Friday deadline to eliminate diversity programs, as well as Ohio's Senate Bill 1, which would ban DEI initiatives on college campuses and has already passed in the state Senate.

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Robert Kelchen

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Im now a veteran department head at a much better resourced university, but higher education is facing more uncertainty now than since March 2020 due to the bulldozer of the Trump administrations attempted and proposed changes.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 14, 2024

HEI also recognized this problem in 2017, something the Trump Administration failed to notice and made worse with its rosy Census projections. Problems with the federal government's financial aid system may mean that a significant decline in enrollment at non-elite schools occurs this fall instead of 2025.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

The graphic includes gender, age, type of school, race, financial aid, housing, dependents, learning environment, employment, and enrollment. This tool is revolutionary because the federal government has banned collecting and reporting student-level information because of privacy concerns since 2008.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

Many university hospitals rely heavily on Medicaid funding from state and federal governments and could face severe revenue shortfalls if federal Medicaid funding is cut. Staff reductions at the Department of Education (ED) pose another significant threat.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

The Department of Education’s announcement last week of a secret shopper program to investigate the recruitment, enrollment, and financial aid practices of schools has garnered mixed reactions. While advocates of access hailed the policy, the for-profit sector and financial aid offices raised worries.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For-profit institutions must comply with a 90/10 rule that limits the amount of revenue that the schools receive from the federal government by requiring that 10% of revenue has to come from non-federal sources. Bill and Defense Department Tuition Assistance benefits, counted toward income from non-federal sources.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 17, 2025

Million Borrowers The Biden-Harris Administration today announced its final round of student loan forgiveness, approving more than $600 million for 4,550 borrowers through the Income-Based Repayment (IBR) Plan and 4,100 individual borrower defense approvals. The Administration leaves office having approved a cumulative $188.8

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Abuses at IEC schools In February, the Department of Education terminated financial aid eligibility to another IEC-owned chain called Florida Career College, and the school closed. taxpayers who support the hundreds of millions in federal financial aid that have flowed to ACCSC schools.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 28, 2025

Department of Education, one of the federal governments smallest Cabinet-level agencies, operates programs across every level of education. In fact, less than 8% of public school revenue came from federal agencies, including the Education Department, before COVID-19 reached the U.S. Emphasize that closing the U.S.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 27, 2025

While the order cannot immediately eliminate the department without congressional approval, it has already resulted in substantial workforce reductions and signals major changes ahead for the administration of federal education programs 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

This is in strong contrast to what we saw from our federal agencies during the period post October 7 th. The Biden Administration undertook, with dedication and persistence, the hard work to ensure students and campus communities were safe. We need to fix what is happening on our college campuses.We

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 2, 2024

Doing all of that at a time when the Biden administration, to its great credit, is working diligently to hold predatory schools accountable would be risky. Department of Education to investigate Keiser’s schools, which have received billions in taxpayer-funded student financial aid.

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2025

The Trump administration and the Department of Education are welcoming education stakeholders to provide “deregulatory ideas” on how to best overhaul the current student loan system. Written comments are also accepted on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at Regulations.gov, according to the announcement.

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University Business

MARCH 21, 2025

While a federal agency can only be closed by an act of Congress, the Trump administration is whittling down the department’s staff and responsibilities. ” Other leaders are concerned about the impact the executive order has on financial aid disbursement.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 25, 2025

With massive staff reductions, rollback of key civil rights regulations, and a stunning shift of student loan collection authority to the Small Business Administration, higher education institutions now face a regulatory landscape unlike any before. Department of Education and its role in postsecondary education.

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University Business

MARCH 19, 2025

Colleges and universities will have to begin looking elsewhere for funding and support as the Trump administration continues to shrink federal spending on higher education. While the administration has notmoved to cut Pell Grants, its already disrupted the student loans space.

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University Business

MARCH 12, 2025

The Trump administration’s goal is to eliminate “red tape” that holds up education funding and give more financial control to states, McMahon said in a Fox News interview Tuesday night. The administration has gone further, according to ProPublica. ” (LAST UPDATE: Feb. ” (LAST UPDATE: Feb.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2025

It also announced it would seek to ban Andrew Clark, the CEO of Ashfords demised parent company, Zovio, from contracting with the federal government. The Biden administration deserves credit for at last righting some of this wrong. Ashford has been sued or investigated by other federal and state agencies, including the U.S.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 10, 2025

They had benefitted when, during Trumps first term, his education secretary, Betsy DeVos, largely ended federal regulatory and enforcement efforts to hold for-profit schools accountable for deceiving students and ripping off taxpayers. Department of Education. veterans and service members. veterans and service members.

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