Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The report estimated that nine out of 10 colleges either don’t include or underestimate the net price of attending in financial aid letters. The GAO estimated that 41% of colleges don’t include a net price and that 50% understate it, often by excluding key costs such as books and including aid that must be repaid, like loans.

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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.

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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. You may be able to go to community college, pay your tuition, have your books, etc.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 29, 2024

Financial aid leveraging leaves low-income students and their families with heavy debt loads, Stephen J. Burd writes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Holley added that mission-driven institutions have never been more important than now, “in such an era of censorship, book burning, and a denial of history.” Financial aid packages for first-year students average $47,930, and Holley said there are a large number of Pell Grant recipients in attendance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In Stephanie Land’s brave and important new book CLASS ( a follow-up to her memoir MAID , the basis for an award-winning Netflix series) she explains that even though she knew a college degree was the best chance she and her 6-year-old daughter had of escaping poverty, being deprived of food made it nearly impossible.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

APRIL 9, 2025

Admissions counselors can contact students directly via emails, phone calls, or video meetings to answer their specific questions and address any issues they may have on topics such as financial aid opportunities, program lengths and delivery formats, and support services. Create urgency. Provide incentives.

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Great College Advice

JULY 21, 2023

The COA represents an approximation of your fully loaded cost, and will usually include: Tuition Room and Board School Fees Books and School Supplies Travel Personal Expenses Visit each school’s website that your child is interested in, and if the school provides an estimated COA. Some will meet full financial needs while others won’t.

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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. Students were paid a $15 per hour stipend for their training, and CHCP covered any gaps with grant money.

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University Business

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Most colleges are not following best practices for providing clear and standard information in their financial aid offers. Those best practices urge college leaders to estimate the net price by deducting only grants and scholarships from the costs of tuition, books, housing, and meals. Financial aid transparency figures.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re rethinking financial aid and student loans in new and innovative ways. They see ChatGPT writing papers, maniacal zealots indoctrinating young minds with woke, left-wing ideology, or, alternatively, right-wing idealogues banning books and prohibiting the honest teaching of history. Others are much more pessimistic.

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Financial Considerations While planning to study abroad, taking a quick look at your finances is considered healthy. Instruments like financial aid and on-campus work options help you grab deals like student housing in New York City. Download the AmberStudent app now to book an affordable home for your adventure.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

We need to be well distributed across all the universities,” said Tapia, who critiques the need in his 2022 book, “Losing the Precious Few: How American Fails to Educate Its Minorities in Science and Engineering.” How is it going to impact financial aid, endowed scholarships that have been based on race and ethnicity?

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Great College Advice

JULY 29, 2023

11.) How many credits are required for me to keep my financial aid? 3.) Questions to ask coaches about finances and scholarships 1.) Specifically, what expenses does the financial aid and/or scholarship package cover? Tuition, room, board, books, special assessments, supplies)?

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Great College Advice

JULY 24, 2023

The answer is yes–but only if you agree to forsake all other admissions and financial aid offers. For more on the statistical analysis of how this works, see the book The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite by Christopher Avery, Andrew Fairbanks, and Richard Zeckhauser.) The right to compare shops based on price.

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Great College Advice

APRIL 15, 2024

Luckily, if you’ve already been accepted to a school, you should also have been provided your financial aid award letter. But you’ll also need to pay for books, clothes, travel to and from campus, and a million other little expenses. Pay careful attention to the type of aid they’re offering. These are your direct costs.

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 2, 2023

I knew how many books were in the library (lots) and that students hailed from 49 of the 50 states (North Dakota was sadly unrepresented). And everyone knows how to make the travel arrangements: book the flights, pick the hotels, reserve the rental car. Then you can order your free E-Book on how to get the most from the campus tour.

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Via's

DECEMBER 8, 2022

StudentUniverse, a leading travel booking site, does it by partnering with 200+ airlines worldwide to give exclusive discounts to travelers under age 30. . To fund global experiences, most students surveyed said they relied on scholarships and financial aid, followed by family, savings and then jobs. “We

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Next steps: The team scheduled meetings with departments on campus that provide high-touch support to students, including academic counseling, financial aid, student services, outreach, special population support services and the tutoring center. Discussions involved department needs, communication objectives and staffing capabilities.

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CAPD

APRIL 8, 2025

As soon as students arrive on campus, they can begin booking appointments with anyone on our Career Advising team. Students can book appointments using Handshake. As soon as students arrive on campus they can book an appointment using Handshake to meet with a career advisor and work on their resume.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 31, 2023

There are books, YouTube channels , Facebook groups, businesses , and individuals all geared toward helping high school students navigate the college application process. IECs can educate your family about the financial landscape of the higher education system. These are important questions for parents of college-bound kids.

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PUC

JULY 30, 2024

One common question the staff members at PUC’s financial services office is often asked is about FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) and how to accurately fill it out to maximize financial aid eligibility. What makes PUC’s financial aid package stand out from other colleges and universities?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Education Department settles with five law schools over financial aid; a new report explores the role of California's Hispanic-serving community colleges; New College of Florida aims to lure students to a new Odyssey course with free books and food trucks. The following news articles ran in the past week:

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

Providing more financial aid and more information about financial aid can help prospective students make a true risk assessment. Providing more generous financial aid targeted based on need and simple to apply for has a strong positive impact on increasing enrollment and persistence.

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University Business

JULY 29, 2024

The fall semester will soon be here and students will be buying … no, renting … no, just picking up their books from the bookstore. Three trends have emerged over the past decade: renting books instead of buying them, having colleges pay for the rental or bypassing textbooks altogether and using open educational resources (OER).

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College Forward

JUNE 6, 2024

This commitment is reflected in the remarkable scholarship awards College Possible students have received this year, allowing them to focus on their studies and future careers without the burden of financial stress. Our coaches are more than just advisors; they are mentors, cheerleaders, and strategic partners in each student’s journey.

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University Business

JUNE 21, 2023

Duke will also provide additional financial aid for housing, meals and books for North Carolina and South Carolina students with family incomes of $65,000 or less, the research university in Durham announced this week.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

AUGUST 27, 2024

Quality SEO Must Go Deeper Than Keyword Rankings Think of a piece of content you’ve engaged with lately, whether it’s a book, movie, or news article. Regardless of the medium, that piece of content probably popped into your mind because it resonated with you on a human, personal level.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Roughly two dozen schools have introduced “no-loan” policies, which means they are eliminating student loans altogether from their financial aid packages. Among the schools on The Princeton Review’s “The Best 389 Colleges” list, 23 promise to meet 100% of their undergraduates’ financial need without loans.

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The Scholarly Teacher

APRIL 27, 2022

Learning to file for financial aid, apply to internal scholarships, or declare a major are opaque bureaucratic processes. Penguin Books. Many HSI students at my institution are first-generation, which follows broader patterns of HSIs (and other MSIs) across the United States. Office hours” are an unfamiliar term. Ramos, Trans.).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean The Education Department is planning to deploy “secret shoppers ” to colleges around the country to suss out deceptive and predatory practices, particularly around financial aid. A legal brief will read differently than a children’s book.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Create mobile-friendly applications: Simplify the application itself, and ensure that students can use their mobile device to complete the application, apply for financial aid, register for orientation and/or courses, and order their books. admissions, financial aid, advising) can create confusion and frustration among students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Their book is, in part, a highly persuasive critique of the “cost disease” argument advanced by William Baumol and William Bowen, that the rising cost of college tuition is (in Bowen’s words) “inexorable and unpreventable”: that it is impossible to increase productivity in higher education without reducing quality.

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Dr. Al Solano

JULY 4, 2022

We discuss the following topics: 6:42:25: The "Why": Impetus for writing the book, On My Own: The Challenge and Promise of Building Equitable STEM Transfer Pathways. 35:13:82: The challenge and opportunities of continuously improving teaching practices, and book recommendations. Scroll down to access the transcript.). What is barre?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Minnesota lawmakers in 2021 created the state’s Fostering Independence Grant to cover the full cost of attendance, which includes room and board, books and supplies, and other expenses. Participating private institutions in the state have agreed to provide aid to cover gaps from the grant.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

In response to the post about the book collection, one reader asked plaintively, “How is it possible that with an entire boomer generation retiring in droves, there are no old books’ homes where they can send their banished collections?” ” The idea of an “old books’ home” made me smile.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

With the accreditation standards at least now published as part of the 2021 federal report, Mock said she hopes they can aid in the start-up of new programs. Not all programs serving intellectually disabled students have such a federal designation.

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