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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. College leaders report staffing losses at all levels, including IT workers, student success professionals, dining hall workers and executive leaders, she said.

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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

Did gainful employment regulations result in college and program closures? Intended and unintended consequences of for-profit college regulation: Examining the 90/10 rule. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 48 (3), Article 4. link ) College pricing, tuition revenue, and endowments Baker, D. Working paper.

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State Financial Aid Rises Slightly

Confessions of a Community College Dean

billion in student financial aid in the 2021–22 academic year, a 1 percent increase compared to the year before, according to an annual survey by the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, an association of state agencies that administer state-appropriated financial aid dollars.

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College endowments dropped in fiscal year 2022

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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My 2023 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

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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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List (Robert Kelchen)

Higher Education Inquirer

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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Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness

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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.