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. Despite federal and state financial aid, 23% of undergraduates, an estimated 4 million nationally, lack the resources to afford adequate food on a regular basis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Manny Rodriguez His job entails research and collaboration with other education groups, state legislators, and education officials in accordance with TICAS’s mission to increase college access, affordability, and success through improvements in student financial aid policies. He’s a great asset in California.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

It’s been a year of missteps, miscalculations, confusion, delays, glitches, and frustration after the botched launch of the simplified FAFSA, which has prevented financial aid packages from being awarded to students with ample time to make plans for their future. Last week, Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Department of Education (ED) is delaying the sending out of student information relevant for financial aid calculations to institutions, higher ed scholars and officials have voiced concern and uncertainty over how this change will affect low-income and first-generation students in particular.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

One of the reasons that many of these efforts haven’t made as much difference as they could have is the administrative burdens that they place on students—the difficulty of the steps that students and their families must go through to apply for financial aid, or even to college at all. “By said Gándara. “Or

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Amid ongoing issues with the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form this year, the City University of New York (CUNY) is looking to help. We don’t want the unprecedented delays and changes in this year’s federal aid application process to deter them from coming to CUNY or any college." Matos Rodríguez. "We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

An additional 1,600-1,700 students at Emory University received grants and scholarships instead of loans in their financial aid packages this fall, the Atlanta-based institution announced recently, more than doubling the number of undergraduates expected to finish school with limited or no debt. This allows us to enroll those students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The report estimated that nine out of 10 colleges either don’t include or underestimate the net price of attending in financial aid letters. The GAO estimated that 41% of colleges don’t include a net price and that 50% understate it, often by excluding key costs such as books and including aid that must be repaid, like loans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Its advisers also support students through the financial aid process and the FAFSA application. “We We thank our partners in government for helping CUNY make good on its mission to lift New York, and we welcome the students who have taken this important step toward improving their future,” said Chancellor Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

Cordray’s office has also undergone scrutiny and criticism for its botched rollout of changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid , or FAFSA, which were supposed to simplify the application process and expand access to underserved students and their families.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Now, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce has released a report on the potential impacts of the decision and how higher ed and governments can react. The CEW also proposes a bold admissions reform that the governments could make: requiring that every college enroll at least 20% Pell grant recipients.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Francis-Begay, governing council chair for the National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education. While there are FAFSA webinars available, I believe community and family focused FAFSA and financial aid workshops in tribal communities might be an effective way to promote college going overall among indigenous students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

Financial aid and scholarships are available, but often not sufficient to bridge the gap, and the burden of student loans can be a daunting deterrent. Although the government is looking to move in a different direction, colleges and universities must prioritize diversity and inclusion. Not dropout rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

During his tenure, he worked to simplify financial aid, oversaw federal investments in efforts to increase college completion, and advocated for the president’s America’s College Promise proposal. "As Earlier this year, he also launched an unsuccessful bid to become governor of Maryland. But it was his work as U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2022

According to the school, student financial aid will not be affected. . The school had been “on monitoring” for two years, the maximum consecutive monitoring period, according to the agency.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Ten top-scored community college programs compete in one of three award categories — instructional programs and services, workforce development, and planning, governance, and finance. Rose Martinez, director of the Bellwether College Consortium. Competing teams vie for both the Best in Showcase Award and the respected Bellwether Award.

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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

JULY 25, 2024

Even today, we see state governments enacting policies that disproportionately harm socially, culturally, and economically diverse (SCED) students. While not without its flaws, the department has played a crucial role in protecting the civil rights of students and ensuring equal opportunity in education.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Degree-seeking students are free to take only one course per term to earn financial aid eligibility and can step away from registering for another course for up to one year. For both online and in-person learners, baccalaureate courses run for five weeks. “We don’t do sticker prices and discounts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They deserve to be the focus of public attention and philanthropic giving and the priority for governments, instead of the tiny number of already highly-resourced gated colleges always dominating the news. Students require and deserve far more than band-aids. I call a place that does this a #RealCollege. What else can and should we do?

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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

AUGUST 1, 2024

Government Accountability Office issued its second report about the high rates of food insecurity among college students, and last year the U.S. They weren’t an annoyance — they made me feel noticed and cared for, and as someone who experienced undetected abuse as a child, I wish they’d been put into practice a long time ago.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Representatives of Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency wont be able to access federal student aid databases until Feb.17 17 under a federal court order released Tuesday evening.

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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

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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Hope College Network

JANUARY 4, 2023

When I was applying for college, financial aid was probably one of the things that stressed me out the most. Here are the things that I wish I could explain to past me about financial aid at Hope College. Here are the things that I wish I could explain to past me about financial aid at Hope College.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The View From the FAFSA Trenches Liam Knox Thu, 09/26/2024 - 03:00 AM A government investigation offered a look behind the scenes of the federal aid fiasco this week. Financial aid professionals say it confirmed their most cynical suspicions. Byline(s) Liam Knox

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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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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 20, 2023

Additionally, investing in stipends, financial aid, and support programs for career transitioning can help people navigate economic transitions successfully and adapt to changing industry demands. 4.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Their families might not have the experience to help them understand financial aid processes or advocate for themselves with faculty. More from UB: AI is transforming higher ed: What you need for compliance and governance Small gestures can have a significant impact.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Recruitment involved more than competitive financial aid packages, glossy brochures, and the shine of rankings. Protect faculty governance in colleges and universities.

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University Business

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Most colleges are not following best practices for providing clear and standard information in their financial aid offers. But about 90% of colleges “understate or don’t include the net price” in their offers, according to a report released this week by the Government Accountability Office.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Martinez explains that TACC has been involved with the commission since day one, gathering input from community college leaders and presidents, affinity groups, financial aid officers and more. Deaton says the outcome-based funding model has “allowed the state government and its finances to catch up to where our schools already were.”

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University Business

MAY 28, 2024

Enrolling in college has been especially fraught this year, and financial aid experts are raising new concerns about the unforgiving timeline students could face if they rely on federal dollars to attend school this summer. Education Department in 2017, those students are eligible for year-round government assistance.

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