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. You’re never going to do it alone,” says Rodriguez.

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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

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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

When you have students applying to early action or early decision trying to finalize where they’re gonna go—for a lot of our students, that financial need is really important.” The delay is causing anxiety amongst her peers and even more so in the students she is trying to serve. When it works, it’s simpler, it’s better.

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University Business

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

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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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 2, 2025

Each time, I have updated the readings considerably as the field is moving quickly and I figure out what works best for the students. Predicting college closures and financial distress. FAFSA and beyond: How advisers manage their administrative burden in the financial aid process. The Hechinger Report. link ) Kelchen, R.,

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University Business

MAY 15, 2024

If we’ve learned anything from this last year, it’s just how critical financial aid administrators are to ensuring students can access postsecondary education,” NASFAA President and CEO Justin Draeger said in a statement.

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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. “We’re still fighting this misconception that higher education is too expensive and that everybody has a $125,000 loan,” Thompson said.

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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. Clayton, A.

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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. Another year, another opportunity for higher education stakeholders to set the agenda for state policy and improve its value.

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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

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Image: The first version of what the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid will look like is here, and it’s not the short application many have hoped for. It has 46 questions and runs 21 pages, although many students won’t have to answer all the questions. So I think it could be a really easy experience.”

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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 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

MARCH 21, 2023

But under the new federal financial aid formula that will launch later this year, that same family would be expected to contribute $41,056, the Iowa Student Aid Commission found in a recent report. Wiederspan added that the issue of whether to include the value of family farms in the financial aid calculation is not new.

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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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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

MARCH 23, 2023

Before the release of the application, FSA is planning to share online tools that families, students, counselors and others can use to estimate aid eligibility under the new formula, and the office will hold numerous training sessions on the new system. She and others still want a specific date.

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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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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

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.

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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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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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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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? Can payments be made online?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

Virtually all of them—whether they argued for or against current policy guidance, which permits revenue-sharing agreements if the provider “bundles” nonrecruitment services with the recruitment work it does—purported to be speaking on behalf of students. What Is the ‘Bundled-Services Exemption’?

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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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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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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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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

AUGUST 28, 2023

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? For example, John Marshal Law School, the only for-profit school among the five, states on its website that it remains “approved to participate in all Federal Student Financial Aid 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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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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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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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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