Robert Kelchen

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The Wall Street Journal recently led off a story with a statement that more than 500 four-year private nonprofit colleges closed in the last decade, and Inside Higher Ed covered a National Center for Education Statistics report that highlighted that nearly 100 colleges closed in the 2023-24 academic year.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2025

Community colleges and regional public universities often rely on federal data not only for compliance but also for peer benchmarking, state-directed accountability linked directly to their funding, evaluating return on investment, and evidence of graduate outcomes such as gainful employment. The forms are still being submitted.

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University Business

APRIL 10, 2023

A decade after dropping out, Briana Mathis, a 30-year-old mother of two, is navigating her first year back at Wallace Community College. The same adviser has kept her on track by helping her appeal a financial aid decision and checking in regularly on her progress. “I Read more from AP News.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

The Higher Education Act recognizes organizations that contract with a college or university to help administer or participate in the Title IV financial aid programs as third-party servicers, subject to federal monitoring and compliance requirements. 15, the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Higher education associations, study abroad organizations, colleges and universities, and others are calling on the Department of Education to rescind guidance issued earlier this year that would expand the definition of outside companies that are subject the department’s oversight.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

The communications and marketing office began working with institutional research to launch a series of two-way text messaging pilot programs this past fall. “We ended up partnering with a two-way texting vendor who caters to the higher education sector and works with several other community colleges in our state,” she says.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Boosting student financial literacy skills is a key to their wellness , and financial aid officers agree it should be an effort the whole campus community gets involved in. Educators and higher education professionals can equip and encourage financial literacy among students using online education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

In his latest podcast episode, Dr. Drumm McNaughton talks with two CEW professors who worked on the study, Research Professor of Education and Economics Dr. Examples include expanding recruitment efforts and creating stronger partnerships between high schools and colleges. More outreach and advising can demystify college for students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

The community college also is partnering with the developers to serve as a workforce training hub. For example, students may be susceptible to gambling away their financial aid funds, she said. ” Nassau Community College enrolls about 12,500 students, according to federal data.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

A federal definition used with some programs describes students with intellectual disabilities as having “significant limitations” in cognitive functioning, as well as with social, practical and conceptual adaptive skills. ” He said he sat in on a class last year and knew that he wanted to try college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

” Tata said this includes community colleges and trade schools. The grant, provided to students for the first time this past fall, assists foster youth at public colleges and universities after other financial aid and any family contributions are exhausted. Things happen incrementally,” Raucher said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Still, she said, this year’s numbers are “definitely a strong positive,” building on a strong fiscal 2022, which already represented some of the largest boosts for state higher ed funding since the 2008 recession. percent went to financial aid and 11.4 billion and $7.8 billion, respectively.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A prime example is the College Board and Education Counsel publication “The Playbook: Understanding the Role of Race Neutral Strategies in Advancing Higher Education Diversity Goals.” Since the Court’s ruling did not specifically address financial aid, some have assumed that it is exempt.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Pueblo Community College VP of Student Success, Dr. Heather Speed, to examine changes Pueblo made to boost enrollment heading into the fall semester. Our special guest today is Heather Speed, vice president for Student Success at Pueblo Community College. Transcript. TZ: Great.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 24, 2022

It’s equally futile to argue that a high priced degree definitely is worth the money. Sadly, there is very little research to indicate how much you could expect to earn after gaining a degree from this, that , or the other college. Clearly, an elite, private education is a lot of money.

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

That data can be used to segment the student population into subsets, allowing you to determine which subpopulations would benefit most from conversations about specific types of support, such as financial aid, academic assistance, and career planning. This granular perspective has a twofold effect.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The discussion highlights the disparity between the advertised prices of college education and the actual costs borne by students and how the trend hurts recruitment and enrollment. This approach not only aids in student decision-making but also helps in building trust and credibility. So it is the definitive data source.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

billion in grants and establish policy for nearly $120 billion in Federal student aid every year. There, he led the office’s Organizational Performance team and directed policy initiatives on accreditation, minority-serving institutions, financial aid award letters, and data transparency.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Moderately selective institutions were also significantly more interested than other types of schools in “ nonconsumption ”—the phenomenon of high school graduates choosing not to pursue college. This result is surprising. Facing an admissions-staffing crunch?

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Factors that can impact academic performance include course difficulty, lack of study skills, poor time management, and test-taking skills. Financial stability: Many students struggle to afford college fees and other expenses and may drop out due to financial difficulties. Such a bond enhances student retention.

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Parchment

JANUARY 16, 2024

And we talked about there’s a lot of students that are attending a community college that want to transfer to another institution, but don’t end up doing it. Eight out of 10 students that go to a community college want to go. And so one of the things that I did is created this community called Transfer Nation.

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Parchment

JULY 30, 2024

Matthew Sterenberg (09:01.728) leading from the governor’s Nick Moore (09:05.228) Well, you definitely need to create a reciprocal feedback loop between the supply and the demand sides of the talent ecosystem. So definitely check it out and really appreciate you stopping by the podcast. We need informed customer choice.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

The university has established over 1,300 articulation agreements with community colleges across the country. When a student from any of these community colleges applies to Franklin University, the system can instantly inform them about the transferability of their courses into their desired degree program.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2025

I think It’s definitely highlights the importance of, if you have a limited budget and you have specific goals, you probably should be maximizing some of the geographic locales where you have the best brand awareness and once you need to expand beyond that’s a good time to explore. We have to have a program page.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2023

Drumm McNaughton 09:45 Well, that makes perfect sense, given that there is less financial aid coming from the States. So those are definitely barriers. He understood their communities. It’s therefore no wonder that emotional stress is part of that. The state schools are not picking up as much of the tuition.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Even though we have no expertise in any of these subjects” [00:18:33] Drumm McNaughton: You know, one of the comments that I sawin your study was they were terminating programs that don’t fit in their definition of classic liberal arts model. They certify federal financial aid. gender studies being one of them. [00:18:47]

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Education Department’s recent guidance expanding the definition of what it means to be a “third-party servicer” for institutions that receive federal financial aid funds put online program management companies, or OPMs, squarely in the center of the bull’s-eye.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

From the enormous federal student financial aid programs to enforcing civil rights, federal policy is prevalent in numerous aspects of college and university operations. Another key takeaway of my book is that, even though “education” is not mentioned in the U.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Marielena DeSanctis, president of the Community College of Denver, who shares some of the solutions she was able to identify based on her unique understanding of higher ed. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership. Dr. DeSanctis is unique.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Despite the discussion, the term never found a satisfying definition, a missed opportunity for leaders to find common ground as the U.S. rebounds from the end of affirmative action by investigating how “elite” colleges contribute to racial and economic disparities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We have to figure out how to work enough hours at low-paying, exhausting jobs to be able to supplement our financial aid and maybe send something home to help out—and then, how to find the time to study and the strength to not fall asleep in class. Do you know, somewhere around 40 percent of our students at UCI are food insecure?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

Kellogg Professor of Community College Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin. They weren’t the only ones who thought that race-based financial aid was off the table. It’s an important resource for institutions to really understand what the decision did and did not do,” she said. Dr. Miguel Cardona, U.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Strategic Responses and Adaptations In response to these pressures, colleges and universities have adopted various strategies. Some institutions, like Franklin University, successfully pivoted to online education and effectively managed articulation agreements with community colleges, showcasing a proactive approach to these challenges.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

” A key issue for critics and the Education Department is the revenue-sharing agreement between the OPMs and colleges, in which the company receives a share of the programs’ tuition revenue. Any entity involved with the administration of an institution’s federal student aid is considered a third-party servicer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

If you look up the book definition of intersectionality, you can identify the sociological framework suggested by Kimberl Crenshaw in the 1980s that explains how complex power structures of individuals and groups combine, or intersect, in patterns of discrimination and privilege across multiple factors such as gender, race, and class.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

“I think we would find that there’s a number of programs, not just at for-profit colleges, but also at public and private colleges that are not for-profit that also have a lot of programs that have pretty questionable value,” he said. “I think that this actually would be pretty illuminating.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

The docket for this year includes amending regulations on accreditation, state authorization, the definition of distance education, cash management and third-party servicers. During the last round of negotiated rule making, the department proposed and later withdrew a definition of distance education.

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