Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 2, 2025

This spring is going to be quite busy for me with three faculty searches, our once-a-decade academic program review, the most travel for presentations that I have had since before the start of the pandemic, and responding to a host of media and policymaker requests about what will be happening over the next few months. link ) Billings, M.

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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

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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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

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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