Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

Aaron Fichtner Educators, college administrators and students say the governor’s proposed FY25 budget reduction — flat funding from FY24 — could negatively affect students and the higher education community.

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MAY 15, 2024

Financial aid offices were already struggling with staff shortages, a lack of representation and other personnel challenges when the FAFSA fiasco struck higher ed. The report found that median salaries for financial aid employees are higher at colleges and universities that process more FAFSA applications.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In Scholaroo’s recent student financial aid index report, the scholarship-tracking service investigated the amount of money each state is allocating to its students through assistance programs. The report broke it down by each undergraduate student on average, by state.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Senators Alex Padilla of California and Bernie Sanders of Vermont in a letter to Education Secretary Dr. Miguel A. Padilla and Sanders, who is also chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, led 24 Senators in urging U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Traditionally, the FAFSA form opens on October 1, leaving students and their parents plenty of time to fill out the form. 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. Nina Longino, executive director of iMentor, Chicago.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 2, 2025

link ) Financial aid policies, practices, and impacts Anderson, D. Experimental evidence on the impacts of need-based financial aid: Longitudinal assessment of the Wisconsin Scholars Grant. FAFSA and beyond: How advisers manage their administrative burden in the financial aid process. Broton, K.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

According to the school, student financial aid will not be affected. . While we are disappointed with the decision made by the SASCOC Board, we are not discouraged; the entire SAU community has renewed our commitment to fulfill our vision and stay the course to complete our mission.”

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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. That is more than double these gifts’ weight in 2022, when seven such contributions accounted for 1.8% of the total.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2024

billion in student financial aid in the 2021–22 academic year, a 1 percent increase compared to the year before, according to an annual survey by the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, an association of state agencies that administer state-appropriated financial aid dollars.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

If implemented, its recommendations would likely lead to significant cuts in funding for programs designed to support underrepresented students, including recruitment and retention programs for minority students, financial aid for low-income students, and support services for first-generation college students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 22, 2024

With less than two weeks until the typical May 1 commitment deadline, only 34 percent of colleges have started sending financial aid offers to accepted students, according to new survey data from the National Association for Student Financial Aid Advisers (NASFAA); 54 percent had not begun packaging offers at all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Last year, we contracted with the National Institute for Student Success to assess graduation and retention gaps at the state universities and at one community college and develop customized playbooks for each institution to close their gaps.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 19, 2024

Assemblymember Marc Berman California state legislators are considering a bill designed to ensure that students who are parents can get the most out of their student financial aid. AB 2458 would help student parents afford, enroll in, and successfully complete their higher education journey," said Berman.

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University Business

APRIL 8, 2025

Philanthropy is on the rise in higher education as donors prioritize research, financial aid and faculty. Perhaps unsurprisingly, nearly half of all endowed gifts were designated for student financial aid. Here’s a closer look at the numbers. of the total amount contributed to endowments.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Dartmouth College and Northwestern and Vanderbilt Universities have become the latest institutions to settle a financial aid antitrust lawsuit that accused 17 institutions of illegally colluding to limit student financial aid packages. Dartmouth will pay $33.75 million, Northwestern $43.5

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

Journal of Student Financial Aid, 48 (3), Article 4. link ) Financial aid policies, practices, and impacts Anderson, D. Experimental evidence on the impacts of need-based financial aid: Longitudinal assessment of the Wisconsin Scholars Grant. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 51 (2), Article 2.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Dartmouth College and Northwestern and Vanderbilt Universities have become the latest institutions to settle a financial aid antitrust lawsuit that accused 17 institutions of illegally colluding for decades to limit student financial aid packages. Dartmouth will pay $33.75 million, Northwestern $43.5

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Aid Officer’s Advocate Liam Knox Mon, 09/23/2024 - 03:00 AM The interim president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators discusses cost transparency, staff burnout and, of course, FAFSA. Byline(s) Liam Knox

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Coleman said that a common structure that schools are using is to have an overarching committee focusing on big picture issues, with subcommittees focusing on potential effects for individual departments.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 12, 2024

The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) is calling on Congress to take legislative action and require the Education Department to give colleges until July 2025 to comply with the reporting requirements in the new gainful employment and financial value transparency rule.

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Higher Education Today

MAY 15, 2023

Title: Resumption of Loan Repayment: Task Force Report Authors: National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) recently released a report providing guidance to college and university leaders on how to support borrowers waiting for their student loan repayments to (..)

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Higher Education Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Read more » The post How State Financial Aid Programs Propel Low-Income and First-Generation Students appeared first on Higher Education Today. Recent research by the National.

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Higher Education Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Title: 52nd Annual Survey Report on State-Sponsored Student Financial Aid, 2020-2021 Academic Year Author: National Association of State Student Grant Aid Programs The National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs (NASSGAP) recently released an annual survey report on state student aid programs.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 12, 2023

Colleges interested in providing prison education programs need to adapt their financial aid practices to best serve incarcerated students, according to a new report from the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

About a quarter of all aid that goes toward higher education in Kentucky goes toward student financial aid. Teach financial literacy: The state education department created a website to provide resources to assist schools to implement the financial literacy standards.

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Higher Education Today

JANUARY 30, 2023

Title: Pell for Incarcerated Students Working Group Report Source: National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) The signing of the 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act canceled the ban on access to Pell Grants for formerly or currently incarcerated adults.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Dartmouth College and Northwestern and Vanderbilt Universities have become the latest institutions to settle a financial aid antitrust lawsuit that accused 17 institutions of illegally colluding to limit student financial aid packages. Dartmouth will pay $33.75 million, Northwestern $43.5

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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%. However, Howard, the richest HBCU, bucked the trend and gained around 7% in market value, reflecting the advantages that wealthier schools possess.

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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

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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: I write regarding Wesley Whistle's December essay urging Congress to step in to improve the transparency of financial aid letters. National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. Justin Draeger. President & CEO. Disable left side advertisement?

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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. And schools got that,” said National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) President Justin Draeger, according to The Washington Post.

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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

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. The Florida Coastal School of Law lost its federal financial aid earlier that year. However, the ABA only accredits Juris Doctor (J.D.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 27, 2023

The Department of Education has reportedly opened an investigation into Baker College’s marketing and recruiting practices following an article last year by The Detroit Free Press and ProPublica that revealed the college spent more on marketing and recruiting than on student financial aid.

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University Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

College affordability: Colleges want to better coordinate efforts between operating appropriations, student financial aid programs and policies to set tuition rates that better reflect their communities.

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