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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Dr. Gresham D.

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5 New Solutions that Improve the Student Experience

Campus Groups

This starts with enrollment through to graduation, and beyond with alumni management. Our suite of solutions serves the entire Higher Ed community, helping students, staff, and alumni: ? To remain ahead of the curve, our team develops solutions together with partner campuses, and through market trend analysis.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The consequence: the richest institutions can fully fund the education of lower-income students, while the vast majority of working-class and lower-middle-class undergraduates must take out loans to pay for their education. Swensen, taking advantage of alternate assets, including hedge funds, private equity and natural resources.

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The fundamental reason is that the wealthiest colleges and universities compete intensely to increase their revenue, wealth and spending, while the earnings growth of most Americans has lagged behind the cost of living, as we explain in our new book. During the Great Recession of 2008–09, Harvard raised liquid funds by issuing $2.5

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The agreements raised questions, as the Times put it, “about whether promoting gambling on campus—especially to people who are at an age when they are vulnerable to developing gambling disorders—fits the mission of higher education.” Their contracts have raised a number of ethical and policy flags.

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Can the three-year bachelor's degree become a reality?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of a bachelor’s degree. “Lori and I have carried this as far as we can,” Zemsky said.

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President moves: 2 decade-plus leaders step back after a job well done

University Business

He helped double the university’s endowment, raise external research funding by more than 92% in the past four year, earn an R2 Carnegie Classification to R2 and transitioned its athletics program to the FBS as a Division 1 program. to lead American University. Alger leaves JMU in great shape. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.