Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The survey found that much of the endowed support was targeted by donors to fund student financial aid, academic divisions, and faculty and staff compensation. Giving to U.S. higher education institutions was $58 billion in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023. Although this represents a 2.5 of the total.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

Rather, it's the natural result of diverse individuals coming together — students, faculty, and staff from different backgrounds, races, genders, religions, and socioeconomic statuses — sharing their experiences and perspectives, challenging assumptions, and advocating for a more just and equitable society.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Yet less than 12% of resident 18-to-24-year-old students enrolled in our public universities are Hispanic. We see similar enrollment gaps for African American students, rural students, and low-income students. We see similar enrollment gaps for African American students, rural students, and low-income students.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

Each time, I have updated the readings considerably as the field is moving quickly and I figure out what works best for the students. Transitions in higher education: Safeguarding the interest of students (THESIS). Transitions in higher education: Safeguarding the interest of students (THESIS). The Hechinger Report. Broton, K.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Could it prevent DEI offices from funding ethnic student resource centers and programs? There should be efforts made to help faculty and students understand the nuances of the issue, such as that affirmative action has been permitted due to its educational benefits, rather than to remedy past social injustices. Harvard and SFFA v.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

But what bugs students about college costs isn’t just that it’s expensive; it’s because they rarely understand by how much. With how significantly students today regard colleges’ costs and scholarship packages when making their enrollment decision, it may prove wise to take a more transparent approach to student costs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The largest percentage, 46%, went to student financial aid, with academic programs and research following at 15.6%. Experts thought that it was doubtful that the increased outlay would quiet controversy over the idea that wealthy colleges should spend more to enroll more students. “The

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University Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Colleges and universities’ admissions and enrollment teams were already preparing for one of the most complicated years in financial aid history with the release of FAFSA Simplification. “This means in the minds of prospective students no particular school has a unique edge.”

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University Business

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of Education sent hundreds of thousands of inaccurate student financial aid assessments to colleges in recent weeks, it acknowledged Friday —an error it blamed on an outside vendor. General Dynamics in particular has been a sore subject in the Education Department in recent months. Read more from USA Today.

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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. That’s a direct quote from the latest federal analysis of how easy—or difficult—colleges and universities are making it for students to figure out how much higher ed will cost. Label type of aid.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2024

A limited set of students and institutions will be granted entry beginning on Oct. 1 through a phased rollout, allowing the Office of Federal Student Aid to resolve any system errors that might arise before its official release. 1, foregoing its traditional October start for a second year in a row, according to a statement.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2023

Federal Student Aid discovered five law schools that improperly disbursed $2.9 million of ineligible federal financial aid funds to 92 students between 2017 and 2022. More from UB: Higher ed may see its first HBCU reach R1 status thanks to this grant Was the federal aid disbursed knowingly or with ignorance?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Image: Financial wellness may not be the first area that comes to mind when thinking of well-being, but it is considered one of the eight dimensions of wellness. Inside Higher Ed spoke with three financial aid professionals about their best strategies to strengthen this area for students. What Is Financial Wellness?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

The Higher Education Act recognizes organizations that contract with a college or university to help administer or participate in the Title IV financial aid programs as third-party servicers, subject to federal monitoring and compliance requirements. 15, the U.S. Our future depends on it.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

Those tools include a table that advocates say will make it easier for families and students to determine their Pell Grant eligibility. Brown and other financial aid and college access professionals said the release of the timeline was a “big step forward” in the process toward a simplified FAFSA.

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Robert Kelchen

JUNE 15, 2023

Journal of Student Financial Aid, 48 (3), Article 4. link ) The financial viability of higher education Ducoff, N. Students pay the price if a college fails. So why are we protecting failing students? Transitions in higher education: Safeguarding the interest of students (THESIS). link ) Ward, J.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

NACUBO also found that colleges increased their endowment spending, with dollars increasingly flowing toward institutional operating budgets, largely focused on student financial aid. Colleges tapped into their endowments for a variety of reasons, but primarily for student financial aid.

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Higher Education Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Title: National Student Aid Profile: Overview of 2022 Federal Programs Source: NASFAA Federal financial aid programs play a critical role for students as college costs continue to rise. NASFAA aims to increase awareness.

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University Business

MAY 24, 2023

A new report by Bain & Company is forecasting the majority of higher education to be in a tough financial spot three years from now due to a confluence of operational challenges affecting institutions. .” For example, colleges must also address increasing student financial aid and decreasing private giving and endowments.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

College leaders report staffing losses at all levels, including IT workers, student success professionals, dining hall workers and executive leaders, she said. She also noted that a growing lack of financial aid officers at the colleges risks slowing down the processing of student financial aid paperwork.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

How does your university handle financial aid? Can you provide demographic or psychographic information on your online student population? Student Support Questionnaire What forms of payment are allowed? How does the institution track students’ financial aid status? What is your desired service level?

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It will also be trimming its faculty and staff positions to parallel its enrollment losses more accurately, and considering how great the number of students SUNY Potsdam has lost in the past decade, its staff cuts will not be light. SUNY Potsdam plans to cut up to 14 degrees from its academic catalog, including 11 bachelor’s programs.

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Blackboard Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2022

In this climate, partnership offers the possibility to extend the reach of your team and ensure student enquiries don’t get missed. Our One Stop virtual student support or IT Help Desk solutions can assist in Tier 1 and Tier 2 level requests that students, faculty, and staff need every day.

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University Business

MAY 15, 2023

Today, nearly one-third of parents and students believe that a college education is overpriced, and 81% of families crossed a school off their list at some point due to cost, according to a Sallie Mae and Ipsos study. It used to be a clever marketing tactic for colleges to increase their cost of attendance incrementally.

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College Forward

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The scholarship is specifically designed for older enrolled students who are within four semesters of completing their degree. This unique opportunity is an acknowledgement that oftentimes, students’ financial aid and scholarship awards decrease as they persist yet the need for support continues.

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University Business

JUNE 17, 2024

senators and the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators , for example, explain the immense burdens that GE places on all institutions. Unfortunately for students and institutions, that now appears to be exactly what it intends to do. Letters to the Department from a bipartisan group of U.S.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This blog post will explore the chief concerns of community college students and recent graduates regarding loan repayment, and three strategies to better support them. Nationwide, students are facing different financial challenges now than they were three years ago.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 22, 2023

To create a debt-to-earnings ratio that covered as many programs as possible, I pulled median student debt accumulated at that institution for the cohorts of students who left college in the 2016-17 or 2017-18 academic years and matched it with earnings for those same cohorts one calendar year later (calendar year 2018 or 2019).

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

Each time, I have updated the readings considerably as the field is moving quickly and I figure out what works best for the students. Transitions in higher education: Safeguarding the interest of students (THESIS). Transitions in higher education: Safeguarding the interest of students (THESIS). The Hechinger Report. Bray, N., &

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Edu Alliance Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2021

“His expertise in college choice, student persistence, student financial aid policy, and enrollment management adds a new level of depth to our organization and advisors who assist colleges and universities. . He has his Bachelors degree from California Lutheran University and his Ph.D. Edu Alliance Group, Inc.

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EAB

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They also advise leaders to ensure they offer adult students maximum flexibility in course modalities and to highlight scholarship and financial aid opportunities that will make returning to college more affordable. Todd and Beth urge university leaders to make their school website more helpful to adult learners.

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Edu Alliance Journal

JANUARY 25, 2022

College rankings are important in the United States and even more important to students from other countries. And an institution’s ranking is also an important part of risk reduction for international students. Whether we like it or not, our ranking is part of our product. The place is another factor that gets careful consideration.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

It is a bittersweet moment for me and my family because we love this university and the unparalleled opportunities HBCUs like ours provide for thousands of students across the country each year,” according to the Charlotte Observer. Since 2020, the student population has grown 25 percent. “I Armbrister – Johnson C. president. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Schools were allowed to pay work-study wages for students whose employment was interrupted by COVID, for example, and didn’t have to count incomplete classes due to COVID in financial aid calculations. I don’t know how common it is right now for a student to have their employment interrupted by a COVID-19 event,” said Desjean.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

About 43 million people are expected to resume or start repayments of their student loans. The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) has issued its final report and a toolkit for financial aid professionals across the nation in anticipation of the resumption of federal student loan repayments.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Melanie Storey, deputy director of policy implementation and oversight for the Office of Federal Student Aid, told attendees at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators’ leadership conference that the agency wouldn’t commit to a launch date this fall, though it is working aggressively toward an Oct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Joshua Rovenger, a fellow at the Student Borrower Protection Center, which filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioners, was pleased by how the arguments went. Overall, I see it as a good day for student loan borrowers,” he said. But a good portion of the argument didn’t turn on the merits of those cases.

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