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Higher Ed Officials Express Uncertainty Amid Further FAFSA Delays

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

ED has had several stumbles following an overhaul of the FAFSA form, as mandated by Congress’s FAFSA Simplification Act, starting the 2024–25 award year. Even before it launched, the 2024-2025 FAFSA form faced criticism for its calculations not accounting for inflation, a now-fixed issue that was part of the reason for this most recent delay.

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New Jersey City University Continues Financial Recovery After 2022 Fiscal Crisis

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And the school is even “conservatively forecasting” a “break-even balanced budget for fiscal year 2024,” according to NJCU President Andrés Acebo. Throughout this process, Acebo has made shared governance and collaboration with organized labor central, much to the approval of the union members.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

The cohort of students who were taking algebra during their first year of high school in 2020-2021 will begin entering college in Fall 2024. High school grades are no longer as reliable, standardized test scores became optional for admissions, and placement tests were often abandoned or replaced with alternatives.

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Attack of the “Math Shark”: Why Unfinished Learning Is a Lurking Threat to Student Success in the Late 2020s

EAB

The cohort of students who were taking algebra during their first year of high school in 2020-2021 will begin entering college in Fall 2024. High school grades are no longer as reliable, standardized test scores became optional for admissions, and placement tests were often abandoned or replaced with alternatives.

Faculty 52
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Microcredentials

Parchment

As the inter said, I’m micro credentials program manager at University of Colorado Boulder, as well as a co founder of the annual badge summit conference that is going to be in its ninth year here in 2024 at CU Boulder. It’s at community colleges. And so 2016 to 2024 is only eight years. I am curating them.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugy of Microcredentials

Parchment

As the inter said, I’m micro credentials program manager at University of Colorado Boulder, as well as a co founder of the annual badge summit conference that is going to be in its ninth year here in 2024 at CU Boulder. It’s at community colleges. And so 2016 to 2024 is only eight years. I am curating them.

IT 52
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California governor wants a guaranteed transfer path to UCLA

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: In the latest California budget proposal , Governor Gavin Newsom called on the University of California, Los Angeles, to create a guaranteed transfer pathway for community college students or forfeit a chunk of state funding. “Uncertainty is a dream-destroyer,” Chida said in a statement.