Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But after showing up at one of Michigan’s community colleges, the returning student is given a high-stakes test in math and English to see if they are “ready” for college-level work. Yet students spend their time and money in these courses while burning through their financial aid.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

I am beyond excited to be back in the (virtual) classroom this spring, as I get to teach a course for the first time since spring 2020. The last two times that I taught the course ( spring 2020 and fall 2017 ), I shared my reading list for the class on this blog. Lumina Foundation video series on federal financial aid: [link].

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

The invisible colleges revisited: An empirical review. State investment in higher education: Effects on human capital formation, student debt, and long-term financial outcomes of students. Intended and unintended consequences of for-profit college regulation: Examining the 90/10 rule. Gorton, N., & & Lovenheim, M.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: Setting community college students up for success can result in institutional partnerships, as demonstrated by the University of Dayton’s work with Sinclair Community College in Ohio. Of UD Sinclair Academy’s 2020 and 2021 cohorts, 96 percent received their bachelor’s degrees.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The College and Career Bridge for All program started as a pilot in 2017 as a partnership between CUNY and the New York City Public Schools. All public high school seniors in the state became eligible in 2020 in response to the pandemic. The program is funded to support high school seniors from the classes of 2021, 2022 and 2023.

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

Tackling workforce needs with financial assistance Maine Free College, a free college scholarship initiative introduced by the Maine Community College System (MCCS) in the 2022-23 academic year, has helped contribute to a mass resurgence in enrollment compared to the rest of the country.

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Dr. Al Solano

JULY 4, 2022

University of Illinois, Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL). - The first barrier, it is a very pervasive issue in higher ed, but particularly for this group of students: the utter lack of financial support across almost all levels of financial aid policy making. USC CUE. -

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

The department’s Office of Federal Student Aid released a road map outlining key dates and milestones over the next several months, ending with the launch of the new application in December. That overhaul includes simplifying the underlying formula used to determine aid eligibility. She and others still want a specific date.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

A new report released by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University offers guidance to state lawmakers and college leaders seeking to close the “college SNAP gap,” the number of students eligible to receive federal food benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program who do not receive them.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The silver lining for many students is that the university is also expanding financial aid, raising the income threshold for free tuition, room and board from $75,000 to $100,000. ” According to Stanford’s website, about two-thirds of students receive some form of financial aid.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Nearly half of the state funding went to four-year institutions, while two-year colleges received 22 percent; another 13.2 percent was allocated to financial aid, and 11.4 billion of federal funding to higher ed, bringing the total federal stimulus money allocated to higher ed between 2020 and 2023 to $8.8

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Campus Sonar

AUGUST 15, 2023

College Exploration Conversations reflected each milestone as students sought guidance about best-fit programs, application processes, and financial aid while celebrating their acceptances and other accomplishments. Pre-pandemic (August 2018 through February 2020) had a positive to negative sentiment ratio of 0.63

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 23, 2023

She’d spent seven years as a part-time student at Los Angeles Pierce Community College after graduating from high school and struggled to earn money and find financial aid to pay for a four-year education. She was also 25 years old and an undocumented immigrant from Peru.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

She thinks states have also responded to concerns about college affordability by granting funding requests attached to promises for a tuition freeze—as state lawmakers did in Tennessee and are contemplating in Texas—or to help with financial aid in general. percent went to financial aid and 11.4

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 6, 2023

Colleges and universities are only eligible for federal financial aid if accredited by a Department of Education-approved accreditor. Since the pandemic (officially) began in March 2020, postsecondary enrollment has declined by over 1.09 However, higher education needs help from an enrollment and perceptions perspective.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

Chancellor Kent Syverud agreed to address the students’ list of concerns in October 2020; Schenandoah joined the counseling staff at the Barnes Center at The Arch in the summer of 2021, along with Susanne Rios, an Indigenous therapist. ” But the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily put any discussions on hold.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Office of Disability Resources and Services helps students access financial aid, find jobs and housing, and connect with peer support groups as part of the office’s mission “to ensure that students with a disability have full access to the university experience.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“There are a number of material things that can be done to make college success more achievable for Black students—financial aid, tuition reductions, support for childcare—but that’s not the only answer,” she said. “It’s cultural, too.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

In 2020, nearly a quarter of the state’s high school graduates who went on to pursue a degree did so out of state—5 percent more than in 2009, according to data from the Colorado DHE.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

The study defines a good job as one that pays a minimum of around $38,000 in 2020 for workers younger than age 35. Examples include expanding recruitment efforts and creating stronger partnerships between high schools and colleges. More outreach and advising can demystify college for students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

By way of contrast, consider the University of Pennsylvania’s 2020 pledge to contribute $100 million over 10 years to the Philadelphia School District to renovate decrepit schools. As Kimball and Iler show, the wealthiest 1 percent of the nation’s 3,285 four-year colleges and universities holds 54 percent of campus endowments.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JUNE 12, 2023

The New Student Experience at a Community College The enrollment data for community colleges is positive for the first time in a long time, with an overall enrollment increase of 2.1% Despite this recent trend reversal, community colleges can’t ignore the 37% decline (nearly 2.6

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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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University Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Joe Biden’s tenure in office has proven his administration does not take the pandemic lightly for higher education: His $40 billion bandage has helped over 18 million students receive emergency aid since 2021, according to the Department of Education’s latest performance report on HEERF.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: The new version of the Free Application of Student Aid might not be ready by Oct. 1, Federal Student Aid officials said Tuesday, though the agency is planning to launch the application in the fourth quarter of this year. The FAFSA is at the center of the college financial aid system. 1, as it has since 2016.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

” The Think College National Coordinating Center, based at the University of Massachusetts at Boston’s Institute for Community Inclusion, in 2020 announced it would receive a five-year, $10 million Education Department grant to continue assisting postsecondary programs.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The discussion highlights the disparity between the advertised prices of college education and the actual costs borne by students and how the trend hurts recruitment and enrollment. This approach not only aids in student decision-making but also helps in building trust and credibility. 00:01:29] Bob: Thanks a lot, drum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The surveys I and many other researchers fielded to try and put numbers to the challenge could only shed partial light, since most colleges and universities refused to participate. But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

After nearly 50 years of funding community colleges based on enrollment and outreach, the state of Texas is considering making the switch to outcome-based funding, rooted in metrics like retention, completion, and the successful transfer to four-year programs. Like the majority of community colleges in the U.S.,

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University Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

. “While campus leaders throughout the country confront these macro-level challenges, their financial outlooks increasingly diverge based on enrollment demand, revenue diversity, and institutional resources,” the report reads. State operating support for public colleges and universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Cuyahoga Community College has fourteen separate centers and campuses near and in Cleveland, Ohio. Locally known as Tri-C, the institution provides affordable access to a college degree from the urban downtown to the sprawling suburbs. Dr. Angela Johnson, vice president of access and completion at Cuyahoga Community College.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Still, a combination of technology and legislative changes should lead to a simpler process to fill out the application, which is essential for students to access need-based federal and state financial aid. The draft materials include a similar FAFSA for incarcerated students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: The Education Department wants colleges, universities and state higher education agencies to make sure eligible students know about the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program before pandemic provisions expire this spring. McKibben said the Hope Center has been asking the Education Department and the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Institutions on the list will be asked to submit a plan to improve their program’s financial value, but other consequences were not included in the request. Students also could receive a warning before they receive federal financial aid to attend a program on the list, according to a department fact sheet.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

” Tata said this includes community colleges and trade schools. The grant, provided to students for the first time this past fall, assists foster youth at public colleges and universities after other financial aid and any family contributions are exhausted. Things happen incrementally,” Raucher said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

” Colleges found in violation of that prohibition would lose access to grant programs administered directly by the department and indirectly through the states—but not federal financial aid. The department also is seeking broader input on the 2020 rule.

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