Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act. Yet there is an enormous SNAP gap in program utilization. In 2018 the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It’s our job at VA and across the federal government to deliver on that promise, making sure that veterans and their families not only have access to affordable education through the GI Bill – but also that they are protected from education fraud and abuse. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough.

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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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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the federal government tries to streamline financial aid, things wind up becoming more complicated. High school seniors could lose out on thousands of dollars as a result. Two states, Minnesota and Texas, have moved their financial aid deadlines backwards to give students more time.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Lately, university governing boards around the country have been considering the balance and diversity of intellectual scholarship in the institutions they oversee. 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.

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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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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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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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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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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. According to Spreitzer, additional specifics should be available from the government soon. “I

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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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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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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. That report was later reissued to clarify and add more precise wording in some areas.

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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. We must ensure that federal data collection continues so that policymakers know what they are dealing with.

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Study and Go Abroad

MAY 21, 2023

A licensed student sponsor is a school registered with the government and can enroll international students. Did you know that many universities in the UK will accept financial aid through your provincial or federal government ? This is an important factor that will pop up again when you apply for a student visa.

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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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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

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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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. Suzanne Mettler graphed out in Degrees of Inequality a decade ago--and that the Government Accountability Office noted in 2002.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Between 2022 and 2023, government entities introduced 57 measures to restrict the teaching of critical race theory in colleges and universities. It will have a spillover [effect] into local legislative activity, school boards, college campuses, state governments, and so on.” And the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For-profit institutions must comply with a 90/10 rule that limits the amount of revenue that the schools receive from the federal government by requiring that 10% of revenue has to come from non-federal sources. Bill and Defense Department Tuition Assistance benefits, counted toward income from non-federal sources.

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Abuses at IEC schools In February, the Department of Education terminated financial aid eligibility to another IEC-owned chain called Florida Career College, and the school closed. taxpayers who support the hundreds of millions in federal financial aid that have flowed to ACCSC schools.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

12 December · Episode 185 AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education 49 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

The Department of Education’s announcement last week of a secret shopper program to investigate the recruitment, enrollment, and financial aid practices of schools has garnered mixed reactions. While advocates of access hailed the policy, the for-profit sector and financial aid offices raised worries.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The federal government (Department of Defense, CIA) and US corporations (particularly federal contractors) have also held great importance in the direction of higher education, servicing their most oppressive anti-democratic, colonial elements. Thorstein Veblen and Upton Sinclair provided a great deal of information on this.

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