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How to Achieve HSI Status: Intentionality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These two-year and four-year institutions must also enroll a significant number of students who require needs-based financial aid. Institutions that receive HSI designation are then eligible to apply for various federal grants in support of their programming. She notes it helps build community.

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U of South Dakota TRIO program offers first-year experience

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The University of South Dakota’s TRIO Student Support Services is like all other federally funded TRIO SSS programs in that it serves low-income, first-generation or disabled students. But an innovative first-year experience program is central to USD’s TRIO approach. No In-Article Careers: 3

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Education Department faces calls to rescind outsourcing guidance

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The department wrote a Dear Colleague letter in February that said any entity involved with the administration of an institution’s federal student aid is considered a third-party servicer, which puts them under the department’s oversight authority and subjects the companies’ contracts with institutions to regular audits.

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Survey: Faculty teaching style impedes academic success, students say

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Outside of the education program at USC Aiken, nearly all of Walsh’s professors lecture nearly all the time, he says. Schoolwork-life balance is apparently a bigger concern for students with financial aid than for those without, however, at 49 percent and 41 percent, respectively. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Florida colleges have no right to accreditation (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Accreditation in the United States is fragmented and imperfect but remains one of the few mechanisms through which we attempt to guarantee some level of educational integrity and consistency across a large and diverse array of institutions. Is this diversity newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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How University of Arizona Global Campus’ Online Recruitment Ads Drain Its Finances (Jeremy Bauer-Wolf)

Higher Education Inquirer

Clark an executive who contributed to the University of Phoenixs rise and the company he later worked for, Bridgepoint, replicated deceptive practices around credit transfers, financial aid, and recruitment at Ashford. Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Republic Report.] Students were distressed.

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Beyond ideological debates, a focus on process (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

However, as hidebound as accreditation processes are, they remain a key gatekeeping mechanism for the federal financial aid funds that help students pay for college and allow many higher education institutions to survive and thrive. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 Margaret Spellings, former U.S.