Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A new report argues a $17 billion investment in a grant program will meet unaddressed financial aid needs for Black and brown students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

While PSLF already offers relief to ECE employees of nonprofit institutions, that’s not where the majority of ECE workers are employed, said Mark Kantrowitz, author of How to Appeal for More College Financial Aid and director of the Research Science Institute, a summer research program for high schoolers at MIT.

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Robert Kelchen

APRIL 29, 2024

I have spent most of the last year digging into the topic of heightened cash monitoring (HCM), perhaps the federal government’s most important tool in its higher education accountability toolbox at this time. HCM places colleges’ federal financial aid disbursements under additional scrutiny in order to protect taxpayer dollars.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2023

Department of Education is stepping up with $368 million in new grant funding to aid teacher retention and recruitment and improve diversity. But there’s more the federal government can do. Helping schools of education produce more teachers is only one half of the equation.

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Adjusting for inflation, students today have paid less and borrowed less money to cover the price of net tuition than their peers throughout the last 20 years thanks to increasing avenues of financial aid, according to a comprehensive report from the College Board, “Trends in College Pricing and Student Aid 2024.”

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The suit, brought by an anonymous former employee, alleges that the for-profit college defrauded the federal government out of hundreds of millions of dollars by deliberately failing to provide students with the number of learning hours needed to meet federal financial aid requirements. However, Senior U.S.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Rule’s abstract focuses on controlled unclassified information , a broadly defined class of federal government-regulated data that includes many categories of information. IT, legal, billing, financial aid, etc.) What information will be covered by the ED CUI Rule? What entities will be covered?

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 14, 2021

It is the primary application for receiving need-based aid at American colleges and universities. If you need help paying for college, submitting your FAFSA is the first step in applying for financial aid from most colleges and universities in the United States. When do I submit my FAFSA? What happens after I submit my FAFSA?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 12, 2023

Since any associated policy changes could affect a much wider set of services than originally expected, we thought that we’d use this space to share what we think are the key points that university leaders across higher education need to understand about the potential impact of recent and anticipated actions by the federal government.

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EAB

JUNE 13, 2023

EAB’s Kathy Ruby and Madeleine Rhyneer explore changes to FAFSA forms themselves and to how the federal government calculates eligibility for student financial aid. They highlight winners and losers under the new federal formula and examine how the changes may impact different types of institutions.

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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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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The latest news from the federal government suggests that students and families will be able to access the new form at the end of December, but data from the new FAFSAs will not be available to schools until the end of January. Once FAFSA data is released to us, we are committed to sharing financial aid information as soon as possible.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

Students in these programs are eligible for Pell Grants, though not federal student loan aid. Since 2010, the federal government has funded model demonstration programs known as Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disability, or TPSID, sites.

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University Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

Public and private colleges and universities have long enjoyed independence from federal governing bodies over the nature of their operations. Federal lawmakers and related agencies have advanced their probes into U.S. institutions interact with China. colleges and universities.

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Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

MARCH 15, 2020

Financial Literacy and Education Commission, between the academic years of 2004-2005 and 2015-2016, the cost of undergraduate tuition, fees, and room and board at public institutions rose 34%. This means that more students have taken on debt to pay for college—much of which consists of federal government loans totaling more than 1.5

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

That takes us to issues of higher education governance—a process that is often tediously slow and too often inefficient but nevertheless the way we do business today. But at the ground level, there are additional stakeholders whose buy-in is essential for a program to grow and thrive.

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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. billion in grants and establish policy for nearly $120 billion in Federal student aid every year. Now, I don’t have the information on individual students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic dawned in Spring 2020, the federal government granted institutions of higher education a series of waivers and flexibilities that allowed them to continue functioning under radically different conditions. They’ll have to refamiliarize themselves with the ‘normal-normal,’ as opposed to the ‘new normal.’”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

I’m putting my time and energy into my education and volunteer efforts and living on campus on my scholarship and financial aid,” she says. Dr. Jennifer Nájera Another step forward came in 2013 with the passing of the California Dream Act, which made undocumented students eligible to apply for state financial aid.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 14, 2024

But, the federal government has no say in whether an individual college is accredited, experts say. That decision is up to the accreditors.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid for potentially deceptive practices.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

” Department officials have said that institutions on the list will be asked to submit a plan to improve their program’s financial value. Students also might receive a warning before they receive federal financial aid to attend a program on the list, according to a department fact sheet.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep. Now Congress and federal agencies have a full picture of the problem. Tax dollars fund federal financial aid at these schools, and we shouldn’t allow that investment to be undermined by hunger.

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Study and Go Abroad

MAY 21, 2023

Did you know that many universities in the UK will accept financial aid through your provincial or federal government ? For example, OSAP and StudentAidBC offer a search portal you can use to see if your interested school in the UK is registered for financial aid.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 25, 2022

They don’t make a financial plan. They research colleges without any understanding of how financial aid works, or how rare those scholarships really are. And maybe some debt forgiveness from the Federal Government. You need to learn about how financial aid works. Many parents, sadly, are in denial.

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University Business

MAY 2, 2024

Jim Justice to take action on financial aid. The state of emergency he declared Wednesday allows students to qualify for the state’s largest financial aid programs—including the Promise Scholarship and the Higher Education Grant Program—without filling out the FAFSA application. “We

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2024

Higher education leaders frequently cite the pressure they have to deal with from a caustic public, the media and even state and federal governments that are skeptical about their offerings. An average of 55% of students and parents said financial aid would be “extremely” necessary. institutions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Amy Ellen Duke-Benfield, managing director of policy and research at Higher Learning Advocates, a bipartisan nonprofit that works to improve outcomes for students, said the federal government is lagging behind state leaders, who already have been talking about how to define a high-quality postsecondary program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

From 2020 to 2022, the federal government distributed nearly $80 billion to higher education institutions through three rounds of HEERF funding, with community colleges receiving $25 billion of that total. The 39 institutions analyzed in the study received about $765 million for direct student aid and $1.9

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Robert Kelchen

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

While it does not appear that student financial aid will be affected in the short term, all federal grants and contracts are certainly up in the air even though some of them enjoy legal protections.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The Winter 2023-24 collection includes the following survey data: Graduation Rates for selected cohorts; Outcome Measures for cohort year 2015-16; Student Financial Aid, academic year 2022-23; and Admissions, Fall 2023. 15 (SPD 15): Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

If the federal government disagrees with what a state does, there are potential risks to federal financial aid, which would be catastrophic for state higher education systems,” he says. Young says the consequences could be far-reaching. “If

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Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 14, 2024

Problems with the federal government's financial aid system may mean that a significant decline in enrollment at non-elite schools occurs this fall instead of 2025. HEI also recognized this problem in 2017, something the Trump Administration failed to notice and made worse with its rosy Census projections.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

Educationlike agriculture, transportation, energy, manufacturing and other sectors important to the security and prosperity of our countryis, in part, subsidized by the federal government. Financial aid is tailored to individual students financial-need as assessed by the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

Students also will receive a warning before they receive federal financial aid to attend a program considered to have a low financial value. “If students are unable to pay back their loans in full, maybe the programs that they attended are not something that the federal government should be funding,” he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

Many university hospitals rely heavily on Medicaid funding from state and federal governments and could face severe revenue shortfalls if federal Medicaid funding is cut. Staff reductions at the Department of Education (ED) pose another significant threat.

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