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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 federalgovernment can do. Pay remains a persistent challenge to recruitment and retention.
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 federalgovernment.
Examples include expanding recruitment efforts and creating stronger partnerships between high schools and colleges. Providing more financialaid and more information about financialaid can help prospective students make a true risk assessment. More outreach and advising can demystify college for students.
The latest news from the federalgovernment 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 financialaid information as soon as possible.
People were not returning after a year, and so they needed to recruit new students. Well, did they recruit classic studies majors? One of the things they did, they went out and they recruited athletes. But we as the FederalGovernment don’t want to be in the business of telling everybody what to do.
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. Thanks again for listening. See you next week.
Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federalfinancialaid for potentially deceptive practices.
The graphic includes gender, age, type of school, race, financialaid, housing, dependents, learning environment, employment, and enrollment. In the wake of this seismic change, higher education institutions will no longer be able to just tout the earning power of getting any higher education degree in an effort to recruit students.
The Department of Education’s announcement last week of a secret shopper program to investigate the recruitment, enrollment, and financialaid practices of schools has garnered mixed reactions. While advocates of access hailed the policy, the for-profit sector and financialaid offices raised worries.
Abuses at IEC schools In February, the Department of Education terminated financialaid eligibility to another IEC-owned chain called Florida Career College, and the school closed. taxpayers who support the hundreds of millions in federalfinancialaid that have flowed to ACCSC schools.
It is almost entirely dependent on federalgovernment largesse. Later that same year, Perdoceo agreed to pay $30 million to settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission that its schools have recruited students through deceptive third-party lead generation operations. USA Today reported in 2022 that the U.S.
Together, the Department and FTC actions call into question not only the integrity of Grand Canyon’s recruiting and academic operations, but also its effort to be accepted as non-profit. Justice Department, over allegations of deceptive and unlawful recruiting practices.
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