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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.” The pandemic has increased awareness of housing insecurity, and she says research shows that students cannot focus on their education if they don’t have reliable housing. During the school year, there are some academic achievement scholarships.

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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. Research your institution’s policies. No student loans. No Federal work study.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. In addition, students who come from low-income families, which allowed them to qualify to receive a Pell Grant, will have debt reduced $20,000,” Biden said in August. million 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. Guilbeau, the higher ed research group’s executive director. This is more than a “business decision,” said Jason P. ” OLC reported $3.2

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The Helen Perkins era

SRHE

Helen Perkins was appointed as Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education in 2004. In December 2021, after another very successful Research Conference, she gave notice of her intention to retire. The benefits were such that the Society was able to introduce its now established series of annual research grants.

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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

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Research Excellence Framework 2021. The irritations researchers experience when working with secondary data are exemplified in looking at the REF 2021 results and comparing with 2014. More are promised after the Future Research Assessment Programme (FRAP) consultation reports. by Ian McNay. Four are fitted on to one page.

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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. Some of this is grounded in EAB research. Following up on Pell Grants for the incarcerated. The end of the master’s degree as we’ve known it? If the investors were surprised, that’s their problem.