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Fill Graduation Gaps, Transform Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Higher education is one of the most powerful assets our state has to uplift families, support businesses, and create prosperity. Graduates of higher education have increased volunteerism, improved health outcomes, and lower incarceration rates. Historically, higher education has underserved many Kansans.

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Higher Ed Cybersecurity, MOVEit Hack, and 3rd-Party Risk: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 163 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Brian Kelly

The Change Leader, Inc.

The recent MOVEit hack has serious implications for higher education. MOVEit, an application used by the National Student Clearinghouse and many other institutions to move large files, directly affects numerous higher ed institutions and solution providers. Learn what institutions can do to protect themselves.

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Budget Freezes Are Coming for Higher Education

Robert Kelchen

Im now a veteran department head at a much better resourced university, but higher education is facing more uncertainty now than since March 2020 due to the bulldozer of the Trump administrations attempted and proposed changes. The higher education field still bears scars from the pandemic, and one key one is the need for financial liquidity.

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How big is the money portfolio in the Department of Education?

University Business

Education Department has the potential to alter various functions of higher education. In grants to K12, the departments spending totaled more than $150 billion in FY2024, according to its annual financial report. Its student loan portfolio stood at $1.47 million people Grants: $33.9 Loans: $85.8

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McMahon: Funding is safe but mass layoffs are “first step” to full closure

University Business

(LATEST UPDATE: March 12) Student loans and Pell Grants are safe, but this week’s mass firings at the Department of Education represent the “first step” of President Donald Trump’s plan to shut down the agency, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says. ” (LAST UPDATE: Feb.