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Community colleges suffer from employee shortages

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. The institutions lost 13 percent of their employees nationally from January 2020 to April 2022, according to an estimate from EAB, a higher education consulting firm.

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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

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. link ) Gándara, D. Kelchen, R.,

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My 2023 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

The last three times that I taught the course ( spring 2022 , spring 2020 , and fall 2017 ), I shared my reading list for the class on this blog. State investment in higher education: Effects on human capital formation, student debt, and long-term financial outcomes of students. Students pay the price if a college fails.

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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List (Robert Kelchen)

Higher Education Inquirer

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., & Kelchen, R.,

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New FAFSA won't launch until December

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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.

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Emergency pandemic funds kept schools afloat, new report says

University Business

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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Making financial wellness a priority for student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“It’s about setting up that mind-set: even though you don’t have a full-time job, the concept of saving, the concept of living within your means, budgeting,” shares Dana Kelly, vice president of professional development for the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.