Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Indeed, while the scientific review process involves feedback, college administration and even teaching involves very little. Everywhere you look there are signs that the higher education sector is precariously rocking, such that even a strong jab might take it down. Higher education’s fundamental purpose lies in educating the public.

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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

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

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.

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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. My success has been shaped by failures, triumphs, and uplifting others along the way.

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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. We really had to accept the closest account.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. The basics are very appealing. It wasn’t always like this historically.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

Institutions should be making efforts to meet these students where they are and provide them with basic needs like housing, food, and financial support. Many believe, including college administrators, that students will come forward and self-identify and ask for help and support. But foster youth can also be reluctant to ask for help.

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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

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. You’re never going to do it alone,” says Rodriguez.

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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. The Hechinger Report. Broton, K.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

Northwestern College in Oak Lawn, Illinois, has closed its doors due to financial challenges. Students who have accepted federal financial aid may be eligible to apply for a closed school loan discharge with the U.S. This was in addition to certificates in medical assisting and dental assisting, and for coding specialist.

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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. These values anchored my identity even as the academy challenged it, trying to make me quieter, smaller, and less effective. It also made me admire the incredible scholar activists who lit the way. Follow state laws.) (2)

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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. It becomes biased.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

When you have students applying to early action or early decision trying to finalize where they’re gonna go—for a lot of our students, that financial need is really important.” 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.

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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 King is currently president of nonprofit The Education Trust. But it was his work as U.S.

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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

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 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

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

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

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. For example, it would lead me to ask the following questions about the campus food pantry (or emergency aid fund, or basic needs center): How is it marketed?

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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. Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington, D.C.,

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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. The stakes are high.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Rampant funding inequities have been clear for a long time — colleges enrolling students with the most need tend to have the least staff capacity and financial bandwidth to help. The challenges predate the pandemic but were exacerbated by it. The COVID-19 infection itself also appears to have made the situation worse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This is a full-circle moment for me, because Dean Holley was my very first hire as president of Howard in 2014,” said Dr. 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

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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. Illinois and Michigan grew much less, by 1.2% respectively.”

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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. Morgan State University has been awarded a $1.5

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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. The Hechinger Report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

On this January day, Curry — who grew up just a short distance from the college — greets the groundworkers and buttonholes administrative staff about the latest developments taking place across campus. There is much to celebrate. Construction crews are sprawled out across the 83-acre campus just 15 miles south of Los Angeles. This is it.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions.

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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. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

. · Programming to include a nationwide collective of educators, administrators, and thought leaders. “We The overall enrollment nationwide at Title IV institutions (schools that process federal financial aid) is 8% Hispanic males and 5% Black males. Dodge Foundation. Dr. Terrell L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Supreme Court’s decisions in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. 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. Coleman was peppered with questions about what might happen and the potential implications.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Leaders seemed to be accurate in predicting students’ needs for cultivating belonging, improving mental health resources and expanding financial aid and scholarship opportunities. Enhance financial aid and scholarship opportunities (24%) Enhance financial aid and scholarship opportunities (17%) 6.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

Using traditional sources of financial aid and TFJSA funds, Alamo sent a special cohort of 10 students to CHCP’s program at no cost for tuition, laptop, books, and course materials. CHCP has a nine-month medical assistant certificate program, with the option for students to choose the timing, modality, and location of their education.

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