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Department of Education Announces Steps to Make Better FAFSA® More Readily Accessible

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education (ED) announced additional steps to facilitate submitting the 2024–25 FAFSA form. Earlier this week, the Biden-Harris administration announced new steps that will make it easier for colleges and universities to process records and allow for more time being spent to help students. On Monday, the U.S.

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UC Strike Expected to Inspire Further Campus Organizing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So much of the academic labor is being done by people on short term contracts, in vulnerable positions.” Another factor was changes in the make-up of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which granted graduate workers at private schools the right to unionize in 2010. But under the Biden administration, organizing ramped up again.

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Judge Orders North Idaho to Reinstate President

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A judge on Friday ordered North Idaho College to reinstate its president, Nick Swayne, who was placed on administrative leave without cause in December, The Spokesman-Review reported. However, the court found that nothing in South’s contract demonstrates that NIC intended him be an interim placement. Hide by line?:

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Per the one-time federal student loan debt relief effort, Pell Grant recipients who earned within a certain amount of income during the pandemic — less than $125,000 for individuals and under $250,000 for married couples or heads of households — would have had up to $20,000 in debt forgiven. million borrowers enrolled as of Oct.

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Should conferences stay put or relocate? It's complicated.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Last month, it announced that it would move the 2024 meeting, scheduled for New Orleans, out of Louisiana because of the state’s laws restricting access to abortion and the participation of transgender people in sports. This is more than a “business decision,” said Jason P. “This also impacts people in a very real way.”

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Higher Ed Braces for Impact of Third-Party Service Regulation Expansion: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 149 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Mike Goldstein

The Change Leader, Inc.

The original rule was designed to monitor contracted companies that provide colleges and universities with services to manage various aspects of Federal Student Aid. These regulations will likely not go into effect until July 1, 2024, at the earliest. In his latest podcast episode, Dr. How higher ed has been reacting to the letter.

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The State of EdTech: OPMs, Risk Planning, and Generative AI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 189 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Phill Hill

The Change Leader, Inc.

This success story underscores the crucial role of technology in not only supporting administrative functions but also in driving institutional growth. And the pandemic made it worse and added noise to the system, but now it’s early 2024. [00:39:57] However, this transformation didn’t materialize as expected.