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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Post-pandemic, we have more individual students coming to us than actual school contracts.” A 2019 #RealCollege survey of CCC students by The Hope Center found that 54% of respondents experienced housing insecurity and 15% of respondents were homeless the previous year. EHS President and CEO Jeffrey H.

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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. In 2019, Oglethorpe partnered with TheDream.US , a national scholarship program that helps provide access to a college education for immigrant youth who came to the country at a young age without documentation. On top of that, undocumented students are ineligible for any federal financial aid. No student loans.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And since then, most faculty members and students have been thriving with either a hybrid model or in-person classes. Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. million contract. Biden Administration U.S. The Eighth U.S.

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President moves: One U.S. Rep, one alumna make for big-time hires

University Business

Some college boards are choosing unconventional candidates for the president position to grant it a fresh pair of eyes and a bold new direction. She axed the men’s football team in 2019 and, last June, laid off 21 faculty members. Robbyn Wacker, who has led SCSU as its president since 2018, announced Nov.

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What a Tech Company’s Big Shift Portends for the Future of the Master’s Degree

Higher Ed Connects: News

This article was originally appeared in The Chronicle for Higher Education on August 7, 2019, written by Goldie Blumenstyk. Lots of higher-education leaders and faculty members should be paying attention to that, even if they don’t care about the future of OPMs, or even know what those initials mean. Department of Education.

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$16B College Sports Revenue and Regulations: Knight Commission Insights: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 171 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Amy Privette Perko

The Change Leader, Inc.

By 2032, according to a new report from Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics in partnership with CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), college sports revenue, including college football playoff revenue and new lucrative conference media contracts, is projected to reach $16 billion annually for 54 schools with the most lucrative football programs.

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Higher Ed Cybersecurity, MOVEit Hack, and 3rd-Party Risk: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 163 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Brian Kelly

The Change Leader, Inc.

Institutions must annually vet employees granted access to information and ensure more people haven’t been granted access. I did that through 2019. We had our students, faculty, and staff doing that long before it was an accepted practice. Sometimes training is a dirty word to say to our faculty and staff.