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How Universities Can Support Undocumented Students as Federal Policies Continue to Threaten Them

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

No Pell Grants. Constant threats of deportation for themselves and family members, limited options for earning income, lack of accessible healthcare, and ineligibility for driver’s licenses in some states are ever-present hurdles. On top of that, undocumented students are ineligible for any federal financial aid. No student loans.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Presently, about 10% of CMCC’s student population reside in residential housing. Post-pandemic, we have more individual students coming to us than actual school contracts.” In the summer, certain EHS buildings have a Pell Grant rate for individuals who are Pell Grant eligible. EHS President and CEO Jeffrey H.

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How to keep moving when higher ed data dries up

University Business

While the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, also known as IPEDS, continues uninterrupted for now, the broader budget cuts and contract cancellations at NCES signal future disruptions to data collection and reporting, sounding the alarm for higher education planning. Whats happening with enrollment? Completion rates?

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USC will reinstate alumni status to 1,600+ graduates. Why was it ever revoked?

University Business

Students who graduated from USC with a graduate certificate in 2000 onward were positive they’d be recognized as USCAA members and granted access to its exclusive perks. Harvard Business School’s website specifically designates which programs, certificates and degrees grant alumni status and which don’t.

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How to write more supportive, inclusive syllabi (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

This is often used as an opportunity to present the syllabus as a “contract” and to make course policies and penalties clear to students. On the first day of class, many faculty will dedicate time to going over the course syllabus. She is part of the national leadership team for the Student Experience Project.

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Hearing the voices of care-experienced academics

SRHE

Several reported that they had benefited from ‘lucky’ relationships with doctoral supervisors or senior colleagues that had helped them to progress through short-term contracts or secure a permanent role. This study was kindly funded through a British Academy and Leverhulme Trust Small Grant.

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Debt and doubt: a graduate’s frustrations with the current higher education loans regime

SRHE

In 1962 a mandatory grant was introduced to pay for the education of ‘all those qualified by ability and attainment and who wished to do so’, in the words of the Robbins Report (1963). There was an important balance to strike between preserving freedoms in the present, and enabling future freedoms in the pursuit of social prosperity.