Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Smedley offers insights for new financial aid directors—and their senior administrator bosses. I came into the financial aid business in a most unusual way. I didn’t want to be a director of financial aid (DFA). I had long planned to study for ordained ministry.

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University Business

MAY 15, 2024

Financial aid offices were already struggling with staff shortages, a lack of representation and other personnel challenges when the FAFSA fiasco struck higher ed. The report found that median salaries for financial aid employees are higher at colleges and universities that process more FAFSA applications.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

Joshua Williams is a former student affairs administrator, higher education consultant, founder of JW1 Consulting , and co-founder of RACCS (Reaching Across Communities and Challenging Systems) based in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab is a sociologist who founded the #RealCollege movement to support students basic needs.

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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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University Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

More than a fifth (22%) accepted fewer financial aid recipients and 11% noticed a decline in their students’ racial diversity. Declining tuition revenue Schools that reported declines in students needing financial assistance also reported decreased fall enrollment.

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Great College Advice

JUNE 22, 2023

Clients have asked me repeatedly to explain the relationship between the financial aid and admissions offices, and to help them to understand how financial need is factored into admissions decisions. This should give you a clue that the two offices, while administratively independent, are two sides of the same coin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

If the school is able to regain accreditation, as those involved believe will happen soon, students will be able to access federal financial aid funding and state funding opportunities, including the Tennessee Student Assistance Award , which offers repayment-free financial aid to students from low-income backgrounds. “KC

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

She served as dean of records, registrar, and financial aid at John Wood Community College in Quincy, Illinois. Lechtenberg holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an MBA from Quincy University in Illinois.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

Dr. Aaron Fichtner Educators, college administrators and students say the governor’s proposed FY25 budget reduction — flat funding from FY24 — could negatively affect students and the higher education community. New Jersey Council of County Colleges members fear Gov.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 2, 2025

Public Administration Review, 78 (4), 626-639. link ) University of Tennessee Systems FY2025 budget: [link] University of Tennessee Systems FY2023 annual financial report: [link] UTKs Budget Allocation Model (responsibility center management) website: [link] Higher education expenditures Archibald, R. Broton, K. link ) Billings, M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

Many believe, including college administrators, that students will come forward and self-identify and ask for help and support. If enrolled in postsecondary institutions, these concerns often negatively impact their ability to stay academically engaged, which could potentially impact any financial aid they have received.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

Northwestern College In a message posted at Northwestern College’s website , administrators listed resources to enable students to complete their respective, or similar, programs at other institutions such as Prairie State College for dental assisting and Moraine Valley Community College for medical assisting.

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University Business

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A lot of of students are gambling in college, and what’s more troubling is that some are using financial aid funds. Here are some more stats that may worry campus administrators: 15% of students say they gamble every day. 19% gamble a few times a week. 21% gamble once a week.

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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. For states that run out of state aid, if you’re not one of the students who was able to successfully navigate getting a FAFSA I.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

While there are FAFSA webinars available, I believe community and family focused FAFSA and financial aid workshops in tribal communities might be an effective way to promote college going overall among indigenous students.” There are 11 federally recognized American Indian tribes in Minnesota.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Pierre, a seasoned legal scholar, had been serving the Southern University Law Center in numerous roles since 1990, first as a faculty member and then as an administrator. Still, in light of the FAFSA financial aid debacle that delayed the processing of financial aid at institutions across the nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

As institutions of higher education turn to AI machine learning and data-driven algorithms to make their work more efficient, a new study published in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) peer-reviewed journal , AERA Open , reminds administrators that algorithms can be racially biased.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

During his tenure, he worked to simplify financial aid, oversaw federal investments in efforts to increase college completion, and advocated for the president’s America’s College Promise proposal. "As Earlier this year, he also launched an unsuccessful bid to become governor of Maryland. But it was his work as U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

4) Put all conversations you have with anyone in administration - about anything related to your public voice- in writing. Frankly you need that list handy every day you work for a university. Neither university counsel nor HR is there to protect you. (4) Do not handle any of that by phone or in person without a witness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

It is evident that the low African American male student graduation rates at a predominantly Black institution in the northeastern United States continue to be a concern for higher education administrators. There are serious inequities among students who graduate from colleges. Not dropout rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

Jo Allen, the retiring president of Meredith College, enjoys the administrative part of higher ed. She enjoys being able to see how budgets function, how admissions and financial aid operate, and how campus security is run. She enjoys being able to understand how higher ed works beyond just the academic parts. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2023

The study – funded by the Health Resources and Service Administration – showed the presence of systemic barriers to higher education for minority students, such as financial burdens and lack of early exposure to public health sciences.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It’s now common knowledge among college administrators and staff that many students experience shortfalls of the essentials. Students require and deserve far more than band-aids. Food insecurity wasn’t a widely recognized problem in higher education and “student basic needs” wasn’t a field of practice. What else can and should we do?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

The grant is expected to serve the Morgan State’s Division of Enrollment Management and Student Success, which provides support to guide students through enrollment and academic processes like managing financial aid and academic advisement.

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Higher Education Today

JANUARY 21, 2025

Lewis and Alyssa Stefanese Yates Source: uAspire Prior to the 2024-25 academic year, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) underwent significant changes, mandated by Congress through the FAFSA Simplification Act. A recent uAspire survey of 274 students, parents, counselors, and financial aid administrators.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

GCU, located in New Jersey, also has women in other school leadership positions as well, such as director of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; director of career services, the director of financial aid, and the director of global education. And in 2022, women make up 67% of faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

By the time I transferred to the State University, I realized I was a decent student and no longer anxious about my financial aid being denied for academic standing. My transition into administration was an act of resistance and liberation. I later earned my General Education Diploma (G.E.D.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

These two-year and four-year institutions must also enroll a significant number of students who require needs-based financial aid. This includes working on retention strategies that emphasize information on financial aid and mental health services as well as continuing to build a sense of belonging.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

If that staff member in financial aid or that person who was motivating them no longer exists, why would they show up?” This suggests, said Shapiro, that these students were encountering other barriers to credentials, including fees or administrative holds.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

Public Administration Review, 78 (4), 626-639. link ) University of Tennessee System’s FY2024 budget: [link] University of Tennessee System’s FY2022 annual financial report: [link] UTK’s Budget Allocation Model (responsibility center management) website: [link] Higher education expenditures Archibald, R. link ) Ward, J. Broton, K.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Mount Holyoke’s board unanimously elected Holley after a thorough search led by trustee, Mount Holyoke alumna, and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Obama administration, Mona Sutphen. “As Almost a quarter of Mount Holyoke students are international, and another quarter identify as domestic students of color.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Using information from that survey, Ryan’s team will develop an online data platform that will enable college administrators and policy makers to view each community college's Medicaid reimbursement data and create scenario-based projections for potential future revenues.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

These administrative burdens , which I believe are least partly intentional and reflect the same racialized paternalism and austerity mindset that we see in welfare policy and the financial aid policy too, effectively keep students who are trying to escape poverty from achieving that goal.

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