Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

Intended and unintended consequences of for-profit college regulation: Examining the 90/10 rule. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 48 (3), Article 4. link ) College pricing, tuition revenue, and endowments Baker, D. Name and shame”: An effective strategy for college tuition accountability? link ) Ward, J.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. College leaders report staffing losses at all levels, including IT workers, student success professionals, dining hall workers and executive leaders, she said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2024

billion in student financial aid in the 2021–22 academic year, a 1 percent increase compared to the year before, according to an annual survey by the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, an association of state agencies that administer state-appropriated financial aid dollars.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Dartmouth College and Northwestern and Vanderbilt Universities have become the latest institutions to settle a financial aid antitrust lawsuit that accused 17 institutions of illegally colluding for decades to limit student financial aid packages. Dartmouth will pay $33.75 million, Northwestern $43.5

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Aid Officer’s Advocate Liam Knox Mon, 09/23/2024 - 03:00 AM The interim president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators discusses cost transparency, staff burnout and, of course, FAFSA. Byline(s) Liam Knox

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Dartmouth College and Northwestern and Vanderbilt Universities have become the latest institutions to settle a financial aid antitrust lawsuit that accused 17 institutions of illegally colluding to limit student financial aid packages. Dartmouth will pay $33.75 million, Northwestern $43.5

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 12, 2024

The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) is calling on Congress to take legislative action and require the Education Department to give colleges until July 2025 to comply with the reporting requirements in the new gainful employment and financial value transparency rule.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Dartmouth College and Northwestern and Vanderbilt Universities have become the latest institutions to settle a financial aid antitrust lawsuit that accused 17 institutions of illegally colluding to limit student financial aid packages. Dartmouth will pay $33.75 million, Northwestern $43.5

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: I write regarding Wesley Whistle's December essay urging Congress to step in to improve the transparency of financial aid letters. National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. Justin Draeger. President & CEO. Disable left side advertisement?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Image: Financial wellness may not be the first area that comes to mind when thinking of well-being, but it is considered one of the eight dimensions of wellness. Inside Higher Ed spoke with three financial aid professionals about their best strategies to strengthen this area for students. What Is Financial Wellness?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 27, 2023

The Department of Education has reportedly opened an investigation into Baker College’s marketing and recruiting practices following an article last year by The Detroit Free Press and ProPublica that revealed the college spent more on marketing and recruiting than on student financial aid.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Financial aid administrators at colleges and universities say a lack of time and guidance from the U.S. Department of Education are key barriers they’ll face in preparing to carry out the coming overhaul of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. 1—the launch date for the FAFSA since 2016.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MAY 31, 2024

The last year has been a hellish one for many college financial aid directors—and, not surprisingly, for the head of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, who’s leaving his role after 14 years.

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Robert Kelchen

JUNE 15, 2023

Mapping community college finance systems to develop equitable and effective finance policy. Intended and unintended consequences of for-profit college regulation: Examining the 90/10 rule. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 48 (3), Article 4. link ) The financial viability of higher education Ducoff, N.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The average return for all college endowments in fiscal 2022 was negative 8 percent, falling far short of the 30.6 NACUBO also found that colleges increased their endowment spending, with dollars increasingly flowing toward institutional operating budgets, largely focused on student financial aid.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Blogs Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness When I think back to my time in college, student loans were something that nearly everyone had, but not something any of us fully understood.

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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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

“More than 17 million students and thousands of schools use the FAFSA form to help access and award financial aid every year, but far too many are locked out of aid because of the cumbersome processes and outdated technology that come with the current form,” FSA chief operating officer Richard Cordray said in a statement.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Department of Education is supposed to release an updated version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid in October, but organizations representing financial aid officers and college access groups are seeking to confirm that timeline. 1, as currently planned.

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Parchment

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In this episode, we speak with Melanie Booth, Executive Director of the Higher Learning Commission’s Credential Lab, and Ian Roark, Vice Chancellor of Workforce Development & Innovation at Pima Community College, to discuss the policy and practice of making CPL a reality for different forms of credentials.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

Intended and unintended consequences of for-profit college regulation: Examining the 90/10 rule. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 48(3), Article 4. link ) College pricing, tuition revenue, and endowments Baker, D. Name and shame”: An effective strategy for college tuition accountability? link ) Ward, J.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: The new version of the Free Application of Student Aid might not be ready by Oct. 1, Federal Student Aid officials said Tuesday, though the agency is planning to launch the application in the fourth quarter of this year. The FAFSA is at the center of the college financial aid system.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It is no coincidence that students reported higher morale with emergency funding, allowing them to focus on their grades during a particularly turbulent time. Community college students and HBCUs were significantly assisted by the funding. million students, each receiving an average of $1,290 each.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Nearly 13 million college students divvied up $19.5 billion in federal COVID-19 emergency aid in 2021, and the Education Department estimated that 18 million total—80 percent of whom were Pell Grant recipients—received aid during the first two years of the Biden administration.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 12, 2023

The primary rule change is designating a CISO or a qualified individual responsible for protecting customer information or student financial aid data. Brian is also an Adjunct Professor at Naugatuck Valley Community College, where he has developed and teaches cybersecurity courses. There are nine elements.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Still, a combination of technology and legislative changes should lead to a simpler process to fill out the application, which is essential for students to access need-based federal and state financial aid. Desjean said that administrators will eventually know where a student is living.

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University Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

. “While campus leaders throughout the country confront these macro-level challenges, their financial outlooks increasingly diverge based on enrollment demand, revenue diversity, and institutional resources,” the report reads.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

The Education Department announced last month that it would revisit nearly three decades of policy making under Title IV of the Higher Education Act that has largely restricted colleges from paying recruiters based on how many students they enroll.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

The Diverted Dream: Community colleges and the promise of educational opportunity in America, 19001985. 2024) Whiteness in the Ivory Tower: Why Don't We Notice the White Students Sitting Together in the Quad? The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys its Way into Elite Colleges and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: Higher education administrators say a change in the federal student aid formula could mean lower levels of financial aid for children whose parents run family farms or small businesses, and they want Congress to take action. Some groups say that will mean some families will have to pay more for college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

The administration also is renewing calls for free community college with a $90 billion proposal over 10 years. Further, the administration wants $500 million to jump-start the free community college effort. The American Association of Community Colleges did not have a comment Thursday.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

Justin Draeger, president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, said borrowers remain stuck in limbo. “It’s difficult to see where we go from here, because we’ve reached a political precipice,” he said.

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University Business

MARCH 19, 2025

” Institutions will need to seek more partners in the private philanthropic space to help support student financial aid, and income-based loans are one way to maximize their contributions, according to these nonprofit leaders. We’ve got to be able to replace it with something that’s a positive alternative.”

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