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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 25, 2024
Education Department (ED) said it has discovered a calculation error in student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them, potentially continuing delays for college applications.
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.
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Robert Kelchen
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
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. Higher education needs to do much more to convince a skeptical public of its value.
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.
Higher Education Inquirer
MARCH 27, 2025
Impact of Department of Education Dismantlement on Higher Education Act Programs On March 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order to begin dismantling the Department of Education, a move that threatens to create significant upheaval across higher education's federal support system.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 11, 2023
Rebecca is assistant professor of educational leadership and policy at Hofstra University. I asked Rebecca to join me in conversation so we could hear more from her about her work in the area of higher ed policy. One important policy consideration is how divided government at the federal level will affect higher education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 20, 2023
Anything that involves the federal government taking a stronger role in monitoring these institutions, I think, is valuable.” Dr. Kyle Southern, associate vice president of higher education quality for The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS), which has been calling for a secret shopper program and other oversight, agreed.
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