Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In addition to support services that include financial aid and academic advising, an example of supporting Latinx student success is the CSUSB Impact Internship, developed by the university’s Undocumented Student Success Center. This is a paid, on-campus internship for undocumented students at CSUSB. “By They’re on a journey.

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OCTOBER 27, 2024

The research suggests that access to affordable child care can improve persistence and graduation for students raising children. To cover child care expenses and tuition at a public institution, The Education Trust estimates that a student-parent would have to work 52 hours a week — an impossibility.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

The publication offers detailed analysis of law school admissions, enrollment patterns, financial aid distribution, and employment outcomes for recent graduates. Financial aid distribution shows similar disparities. The updated data reveals persistent disparities in admissions rates across demographic groups.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Patrick Horning The University of Phoenix conducted two years of in-depth, face-to-face meetings with tribal leaders and engaged in extensive research to gain a deeper understanding of the unique challenges faced by tribal students and their communities.

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Great College Advice

JULY 21, 2023

While I was there, I took a few moments to explain how merit based financial aid works. If you’re interested, I also explained need-based financial aid in this post. I’m here right now on the campus of Dickinson College, which is in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and I want to talk a little bit about financial aid.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

The research, which gathered responses from 740 students at two- and four-year institutions, found that 53% of current college students have contemplated taking a temporary break from their studies, while 17% have considered abandoning their education altogether.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Leonard and Laura Kennedy, an admissions officer at MSU, were tasked with researching institutions with similar initiatives. “We NATAP is a collaborative effort between MSU’s Native American Institute, Office of Admissions, Office of Financial Aid, University Outreach and Engagement and the Office of the Provost.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Leonard and Laura Kennedy, an admissions officer at MSU, were tasked with researching institutions with similar initiatives. “We NATAP is a collaborative effort between MSU’s Native American Institute, Office of Admissions, Office of Financial Aid, University Outreach and Engagement and the Office of the Provost.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

Millions of people who have never been incarcerated live in families, friendships, and communities with those who have (researchers estimate that almost half of all Americans have a family member who has been incarcerated). The results of bringing returning citizens to college extend well beyond those individuals.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 2, 2025

This is my absolute favorite class to teach, as it aligns well with my research areas and on-the-ground experience as a cog in the bureaucratic machine at two different universities. Predicting college closures and financial distress. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 33216. The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

And he is doing his part as director of policy and advocacy in California at The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS), an independent, nonprofit research and policy organization. TICAS resonates deeply with me, as financial aid was pivotal in my own college journey,” he says.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The surveys I and many other researchers fielded to try and put numbers to the challenge could only shed partial light, since most colleges and universities refused to participate. 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

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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

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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The reports analyze the available data and call for more research to be gathered so that this population can be served more effectively. The California Student Aid Commission, which administers the state’s financial aid program, has found that student parents face housing and food insecurity at a higher rate than non-parenting peers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2024

Hallock More prospective University of Richmond students will qualify for Richmond’s Promise to Virginia thanks to changes to the initiative, which targets first-time, first-year students who meet certain income and need-based financial aid criteria.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to " From Setback to Success: Meeting Comebacker Students Where They Are " – research done as part of the CaliforniaAttain! And the status was found to have prompted many students to stop out altogether, said report author Dr. Laura Bernhard, a senior researcher at California Competes.

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 28, 2025

College Exploration : Begin general college research – consider preferences regarding size, location, and academic programs. College Research : Intensify college exploration through campus visits, virtual tours, and information sessions. Research and apply for scholarships. Consider summer retakes if needed.

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Higher Education Today

JULY 19, 2023

Read more » The post Unleashing the Power of Financial Aid to Equalize Postsecondary Education appeared first on Higher Education Today.

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Robert Kelchen

APRIL 29, 2024

HCM places colleges’ federal financial aid disbursements under additional scrutiny in order to protect taxpayer dollars. There are two levels of scrutiny: HCM1 requires additional oversight, while the more severe HCM2 requires colleges to pay out money to students before being reimbursed by Federal Student Aid.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A proposed federal financial aid policy could change the lives of postsecondary students, particularly Black and Latinx students, by allowing them to spend less out-of-pocket for their degrees and prevent the accumulation of student debt, which remains financially crippling for many graduates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Institutions review the data and put together a financial aid offer, helping families decide which institution is the best fit for them and their wallets. For states that run out of state aid, if you’re not one of the students who was able to successfully navigate getting a FAFSA I.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

Research has shown that Black women face unique challenges in the workforce and in leadership; however, despite persistent obstacles, including a lack of mentorship and feedback, a dearth of role models, and discrimination in hiring and promotion, Black women continue to excel in their chosen fields and rise to leadership positions.

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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. My thoughts on how we can approach this is by looking at policy reforms, community engagement, institutional changes, roles models and mentors, and research and data collection.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

The college offers merit-based scholarships, need-based financial aid, fellowships, ROTC opportunities, and other programs. There is no cost to join ATI, which is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and coordinated by the Aspen Institute's College Excellence Program and Ithaka S+R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

As institutions of higher education turn to AI machine learning and data-driven algorithms to make their work more efficient, a new study published in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) peer-reviewed journal , AERA Open , reminds administrators that algorithms can be racially biased.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

This first Equity Innovations Guide illustrates results the organization has gathered from pilots and initiatives it had implemented over the years on matters of college admissions, financial aid, and equity. In addition to its pilots and initiatives, Common App engaged in research about the student communities it’s trying to cater to.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2023

Diversity of the US Public Health Workforce Pipeline (2016-2020): Role of Academic Institutions ,” developed by researchers at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) looked at public health student diversity from 2016-2020 using a Diversity Index (DI).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

It recaps previous CEW research involving simulated admissions that showed that the proportions of all under-represented groups only increased in the highly unrealistic scenario of colleges directly admitting students from the entire high school graduating class, rather than only from those who applied to them. “I Money, again, is a problem.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The annual survey results were released today by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in a research brief. 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. Although this represents a 2.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

On top of that, undocumented students are ineligible for any federal financial aid. On and off-campus jobs, paid internships, and funded research would be almost entirely off the table, post-graduation career opportunities will be limited. Research your institution’s policies. No Pell Grants. No student loans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Earning a college degree is still a sound investment, although the rate of economic return varies across college majors and student demographics, according to a new American Educational Research Association (AERA) analysis of 5.8 million Americans. It relied on 2009–2021 data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey for 2.9

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

HB261 also prohibits institutions from considering an individual’s personal identity characteristics in determining receipt of state financial aid, including waivers, but excluding private scholarships.

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JULY 25, 2024

As the academic summer quickly wraps up (nine-month faculty contracts at Tennessee begin on August 1), I am working on wrapping up some research projects while also simultaneously preparing for new ones. In this post, I am sharing two more new papers. Additionally, colleges on HCM2 tend to close at higher rates than colleges on HCM1.

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