Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 12, 2023

multinational investment bank, is suing the college planning platform Frank Financial Aid, which it acquired in 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported. JPMorgan Chase, the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Community college leaders are largely thrilled about the rise in high school students enrolling in college classes, particularly after steep enrollment declines during the pandemic, and many are hoping the trend continues. The paper offers strategies for colleges to run dual-enrollment programs without breaking the bank.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Others, alarmed by reports of the high cost of tuition, believe that going to college will require them to shoulder an oppressive debt burden. Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college. Despite the data, community colleges suffer from low prestige.

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Robert Kelchen

JUNE 15, 2023

link ) Commonfund Institute (2021). 2021 higher education price index. Mapping community college finance systems to develop equitable and effective finance policy. Did gainful employment regulations result in college and program closures? Journal of Student Financial Aid, 48 (3), Article 4.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

State financial aid per student in Massachusetts has been steadily decreasing over the last two decades, according to a new study by the Hildreth Institute, a research and policy advocacy center focused on higher education and social mobility. The majority of students had tens of thousands of dollars in unmet financial need each year.

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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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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

Lumina Foundation video series on federal financial aid: [link]. Mobility report cards: The role of colleges in intergenerational mobility. Commonfund Institute (2021). 2021 higher education price index. The landscape of state funding formulas for public colleges and universities. 2021, January 13).

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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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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

School expenditures on existing infrastructure grew 26% since last year and 33% since 2021, the report found. Gerardo de los Santos, vice president for community college relations at National University, believes colleges and universities should adopt the notion of the “hybrid campus.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Soaring inflation put a squeeze on college endowments in the 2021–22 fiscal year, driving returns down, according to the annual report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers The report , released today, is a marked change from the booming returns of fiscal year 2021 , when endowments soared.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

link ) Recommended data sources: College Scorecard: [link] (underlying data at [link] ) Equality of Opportunity Project: [link] IPEDS: [link] NCES Data Lab: [link] Postsecondary Value Commission’s Equitable Value Explorer: [link] ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer: [link] Urban Institute’s Data Explorer: [link] Institutional budgeting Barr, M.J., &

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University Business

APRIL 16, 2024

.” Elite colleges and universities associated with the highest echelons of society also have a tactical reason to keep up appearances. Willamette University, a private liberal arts college in Oregon, experienced an enrollment uptick in 2021 following abysmal rates in 2019.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Quick Facts Total enrollment of 673 students 76% retention rate 3 systems (admissions, enrollment SIS, and financial aid) combined for visualizations 56% six-year graduation rate The Challenge Elmira had difficultly accessing data from their Enterprise Resource System (ERP), making detailed enrollment analysis and strategy challenging.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The program connects seniors with trained college student mentors who help them with enrollment, financial aid paperwork and course registration, among other tasks. The program is funded to support high school seniors from the classes of 2021, 2022 and 2023.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

billion in Pell Grants wasn’t claimed by eligible high school seniors last year, a new analysis from the National College Attainment Network found. That’s a slight drop from the Class of 2021, which left $3.75 billion in Pell Grants on the table. More than 1.65

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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

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

JANUARY 18, 2023

31 and will mean that the college cannot disburse federal financial aid funds. The college also has a campus in Taunton, Mass., The college also has a campus in Taunton, Mass., The accrediting commission made the decision on Jan. 12 after a November visit to the campus.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 24, 2023

Similarly, it offers tutoring and assistance with choosing courses, applying for financial aid, building financial literacy and applying to graduate programs. Fundamentals of communication course: In the spring semester, the communication studies department offers a TRIO-specific section of a required speech course.

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Campus Sonar

AUGUST 15, 2023

We partnered with them to analyze their mentions to see how students’ college-going perspectives changed throughout the pandemic. From August 1, 2018 to July 1, 2021, 7,318 mentions from 5,445 students were collected and analyzed to see how their college-going perspectives changed from prior to the COVID-19 pandemic through the height of it.

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University Business

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Stanley, former president of SUNY Oswego, who took over the reins in December 2021. The board unanimously approved the selection, putting an end to a year-long global search. King will replace interim Chancellor Deborah F. Excited to work toward equity & excellence as the 15th Chancellor of @SUNY !

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 19, 2023

In doing so, we were able to maintain ownership over our academic functions–learning and instruction, admission, tuition, and financial aid–while benefiting from outside expertise in building and scaling online programs. For these reasons, we match the tuition for our 2U-supported online degree programs to on-campus rates.

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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. Still, students say more needs to be done.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Blogs Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness When I think back to my time in college, student loans were something that nearly everyone had, but not something any of us fully understood. Specifically, we weren’t educated on how to repay them.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Our second cohort concluded in December 2021, our third cohort wrapped up in spring 2022, our fourth occurred in fall 2022, and our fifth occurred in spring 2023. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects. Scholastica Student Success Improving success for pre-health students Joe Fritsch, Ph.D.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

” Colorado State University, in Fort Collins, also boasts a sizable proportion of out-of-state students—about 27 percent in 2021—but for now the bill wouldn’t have much impact there.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

EAB’s Tara Zirkel is joined by Pueblo Community College VP of Student Success, Dr. Heather Speed, to examine changes Pueblo made to boost enrollment heading into the fall semester. Our special guest today is Heather Speed, vice president for Student Success at Pueblo Community College. Transcript. TZ: Great.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment? Kimball and Sarah M.

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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. billion of emergency funding to 12.7

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

billion represents a decrease, however, from the class of 2021’s $3.75 The class of 2022 was much more likely to be attending school in person where they were better connected to support, to school counselors, to financial aid nights, and FAFSA completion events,” he said. This year’s $3.58 billion unclaimed.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

” Christine Price, program coordinator for the Skills, Training and Education for Personal Success (STEPS) program at Austin Community College in Texas, said she gets phone calls from people wanting to know if STEPS is a “real college” program.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Nearly 13 million college students divvied up $19.5 billion in federal COVID-19 emergency aid in 2021, and the Education Department estimated that 18 million total—80 percent of whom were Pell Grant recipients—received aid during the first two years of the Biden administration.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 12, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission’s Safeguards Rule, which changed the standards around safeguarding customer information, went into effect on December 9 th , 2021. The primary rule change is designating a CISO or a qualified individual responsible for protecting customer information or student financial aid data. What is it?

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EAB

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Schools that grew enrollment from 2017 to 2021, across all sectors and levels of selectivity, largely did so via substantial application growth. Infographic How Application Growth Drives Enrollment in Your State Our research indicates that application growth is essential not just for increasing enrollment but for preventing losses as well.

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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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