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Fill Graduation Gaps, Transform Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students receiving Pell grants have graduation rates 21 percentage points lower than students who are not Pell-eligible. Common recommendations included improved advising services, guided pathways for students, and proactive, targeted financial aid and completion grants. It is time for transformative system change.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After degree completion, undergraduates get positions such as account analysts, managers, contract specialists, and business analysts. The business school also received a Missouri Career Attainment Network grant to provide minority students comprehensive information about career pathways.

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Education Department faces calls to rescind outsourcing guidance

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The department wrote a Dear Colleague letter in February that said any entity involved with the administration of an institution’s federal student aid is considered a third-party servicer, which puts them under the department’s oversight authority and subjects the companies’ contracts with institutions to regular audits.

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When disgraced presidents return (or never go away)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“What is typically in most presidential contracts is that when they complete their contract, should they want to stay at the university, they will become a full professor in a department to be determined,” Wilde said. “But in my experience, none of those are going into a contract.”

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Should conferences stay put or relocate? It's complicated.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” ASHE is moving its 2024 meeting to Minneapolis, even though it may incur financial costs from breaking a contract with the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. More than five years ago, “OLC entered into binding contracts with specific hotels through 2028,” Mathes said in an email.

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Surviving and thriving in HE professional services

SRHE

by GR Evans This blog was first published in the Oxford Magazine No 475 (Eighth Week, Hilary term, 2025) and is reproduced here with permission of the author and the editor. In some providers there are not two but three categories, with professional services sometimes described as academic-related and other non-academics as assistant staff.

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A new generation of conservative student newspapers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

ISI provides grants to at least 50 conservative student publications, according to its website, though details about how much it provides and how that money is used remain murky; one conservative newspaper editor told Inside Higher Ed that their contract with ISI prohibits them from sharing such information.