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How higher education leaders can institute and support financial literacy programs for their student body

Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

Financial Literacy and Education Commission, between the academic years of 2004-2005 and 2015-2016, the cost of undergraduate tuition, fees, and room and board at public institutions rose 34%. This means that more students have taken on debt to pay for college—much of which consists of federal government loans totaling more than 1.5

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Let’s Partner with Agriculture to Address Food Insecurity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act. The average benefit for a single adult is around $2,000 a year and it is higher for students with children. The U.S.D.A.

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Leveraging PEP and EMI Data to Improve Institutional Value and Student ROI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 173 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Michael Itzkowitz

The Change Leader, Inc.

billion in grants and establish policy for nearly $120 billion in Federal student aid every year. billion in grants and establish policy for nearly $120 billion in Federal student aid every year. Then I slowly started analyzing it before I left in 2016, and I’ve been analyzing data ever since. I like it.

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College Meltdown 3.0 Could Start Earlier (And Be Worse) Than Planned

Higher Education Inquirer

Since 2016, the Higher Education Inquirer has documented the College Meltdown as a series of demographic and business trends making US higher education of decreasing value to working-class and middle-class folks. This despite the commonly-held belief that college is the only way to improve social mobility.

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‘Gainful Employment’ Rule Examines Abuses by For-Profits

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For-profit institutions must comply with a 90/10 rule that limits the amount of revenue that the schools receive from the federal government by requiring that 10% of revenue has to come from non-federal sources. Bill and Defense Department Tuition Assistance benefits, counted toward income from non-federal sources.