Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2023

Kim Cassidy Dr. Kim Cassidy will step down as president of Bryn Mawr College in June 2024, bringing to an end an 11-year tenure as the school’s leader, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. “I

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

[Editor's note: This article first appeared at the Kelchen on Education blog.] This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. The higher education finance landscape and data sources Chetty, R., Friedman, J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

Latino college students are more likely to be first-generation students and less likely to leave college having earned their degrees, according to a new report from Excelencia in Education. Many Latino students require financial assistance to attend college, the report noted. Of the Latino students in U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2024

Michael Koppenheffer The report draws on responses to EAB’s 2024 First-Year Experience Survey, which asked almost 13,000 2023 high school graduates a series of questions related to overall college student perspectives, experiences, and satisfaction. They're concerned about the return on investment in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

"We want to make sure that when we're expanding opportunities for everybody, we're doing it for all Minnesotans, regardless of background, regardless of their documentation status," said Senate Higher Education Chair Omar Fateh. high schools continue into higher ed, according to the Hechinger Report.

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Colleges and universities are trudging through inflationary construction costs to successfully reinvest in their existing facilities as students’ interactions with the campus community change in an ever-digitalized world, suggests data from the 11th edition of the State of Facilities in Higher Education report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Institutions review the data and put together a financial aid offer, helping families decide which institution is the best fit for them and their wallets. The result of all the chaos could be a diminished freshman class entering postsecondary education in fall 2024 and a continued racial gap in educational achievement.

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University Business

APRIL 25, 2024

The education and real-life experience that come from travel are irreplaceable for students, as they acknowledge studying abroad is important for personal and professional development. The students we surveyed said they don’t feel fully informed about financial aid options and want their universities to do more to educate them on this.

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University Business

AUGUST 28, 2023

“There’s a delay in the start of the form due to the complexity of simplification,” said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz. For the 2024-2025 school year, the FAFSA filing season will open in December, two months later than in previous years. Read more from NBC New York.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Our proposal covers the cost of tuition so that financial aid and scholarship dollars can go further and help students pay for their living expenses,” said Lowery-Hart. That is a game changer.” Funds from the college’s proposed free tuition program would be the first dollars a student would receive to help cover the costs of college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education's 2024 Emerging Scholars shared sentiments of drive, hope, community, and validation during a webinar Thursday. To accompany the release of its 2024 Emerging Scholars magazine edition, Diverse hosted its first-ever panel for the 15 outstanding scholars it recognized this year.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 27, 2024

Strategies for Increasing Student Enrollment The traditional paradigms of higher education enrollment have shifted, driven by technological advancements and changing student demographics. Enrollment Strategies for Modern Students In many ways, higher education is defined by tradition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Food insecurity wasn’t a widely recognized problem in higher education and “student basic needs” wasn’t a field of practice. Students require and deserve far more than band-aids. The next step is to reach higher and work together. Let’s commit to that goal for 2024. What else can and should we do?

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 12, 2024

The report ranks the top 10 issues, including the value of higher education (3), state funding for financial aid programs (5), general college completion/student success (7), enrollment declines (8) and adult/nontraditional student success (10).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

When the FAFSA Simplification Act begins to take effect this July, it’s expected to significantly affect the process of applying for financial aid, making the paperwork less complex and altering the formula for eligibility. States may respond by modifying their aid programs if they don’t want to pay more or cannot afford to.

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Ray Schroeder

DECEMBER 28, 2023

As New York lawmakers begin to gear up for the 2024 legislative session, one of the budget and policy issues that will be addressed is the state’s preeminent college financial aid program — the Tuition Assistance Program, or TAP, which will see its 50th anniversary next year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Students who become a part of the first cohort, starting May 2024, will undergo training at Mercy’s classrooms and laboratories with MSC instructors leading. Leaders at both Mercy and MSC hope this partnership and credential will move the demographics in the industry to more closely represent the make-up of the country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2023

Those selected will receive a full tuition-only need/merit scholarships for the 2023–2024 academic school year. The ETS-Trenton Central High School (TCHS) Scholarship Program will award graduating seniors who can demonstrate high levels of academic achievement, strong community engagement, and leadership in high school.

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University Business

MAY 8, 2024

Their reasons have varied over the years, but most people will tell you cost is their greatest barrier to entry in 2024. That’s according to a recent survey from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation, the latest read on Americans’ perceptions of the overwhelming cost of pursuing higher education.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Press Release PowerSchool and EAB Partner to Simplify College Admissions and Expand College Access for Millions of Students Users of the Naviance platform will now have easier access to offers of college admission and financial aid via EAB’s Concourse technology September 12, 2023 FOLSOM, CALIF.

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College Forward

DECEMBER 7, 2023

If I wanted to succeed in life I knew I would have to take the first step in pursuing higher education to get there.” The next round of applications for the Kohler Scholars Program will launch in January 2024. I want to pay them back for all that they have given me and for supporting my goals even when times were hard on us.”

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College Forward

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Ultimately, it’s about more than a piece of paper at the end of one’s education—it’s about students realizing their capabilities and unabashedly pursuing their aspirations for higher education and beyond. That’s the ripple effect that equitable education access offers. They’re discovering just what more means.

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College Forward

OCTOBER 5, 2023

All our coaches bring a commitment to service and a desire to improve higher education access and success. Isaiah aspires to build a career in the higher education and nonprofit sectors and knows his time with College Possible will move him closer to this goal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Department of Education (ED) announced additional steps to facilitate submitting the 2024–25 FAFSA form. In addition, new routine program reviews are being suspended through June 2024, except for issues of suspected fraud or severe breach of fiduciary duty. On Monday, the U.S. Since the form became available on Dec.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

Providing more financial aid and more information about financial aid can help prospective students make a true risk assessment. Providing more generous financial aid targeted based on need and simple to apply for has a strong positive impact on increasing enrollment and persistence.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

The competitive landscape in higher education is pushing institutions to not just be another “plain vanilla” entity but to utilize their unique attributes to serve students effectively. Therefore, technology is playing an important role in addressing these broad megatrends and reshaping the landscape of higher education.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In “The Student’s Perspective,” the prominent edtech company sought to understand what higher education stakeholders believed needed to be refined to maximize teaching and student support. As a result, surveys from 255 students and 251 higher ed leaders were considered.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Laura Moore, managing director of strategy and policy for the National Educational Equity Lab According to Laura Moore, managing director of strategy and policy for the Ed Equity Lab, HBCU offerings can be especially powerful for the high schoolers in the program. I think they bring that ethos to their work.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Image: One-stop services are not new to higher education. For decades, colleges have consolidated many of their admissions and enrollment services functions under a single umbrella office—including, but not limited to, the bursar, the registrar, the cashier’s office and financial aid.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Federal emergency funding programs granted to higher education and K12 during the pandemic provided them with a significant budget to help support students on the verge of disengaging and falling by the wayside. “You get about 12 months before the big impact is going to show,” he says. 30, reports WTTW.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

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. DeBaun said that this was because of decreased disruption from the pandemic. 74%), Tennessee (71%), and Louisiana (69%).

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2023

Drumm McNaughton discusses the recent Dear Colleague letter and the upcoming regulation expansion with Michael Goldstein, Managing Director of Tyton Partners’ Center for Higher Education Transformation. These regulations will likely not go into effect until July 1, 2024, at the earliest.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But the world of higher education will be listening carefully for what Biden may say about the many issues America’s colleges and universities are facing, several of which have assumed national prominence in recent months. Wong also said calls to make investments to keep American higher education No.

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University Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

Another year, another opportunity for higher education stakeholders to set the agenda for state policy and improve its value. State support for higher education decreased in more than half of all states between 2020-22 when adjusted for inflation, destroying momentum built over the last two decades.

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University Business

JULY 12, 2023

Financial aid offices often deal with some of higher education’s most complex, nuanced and flat-out tricky fine-print problems. FAFSA forms for the 2024-25 academic year will not be available until December , which can bottleneck applications that offices are used to receiving two months prior.

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University Business

MAY 2, 2024

Jim Justice to take action on financial aid. The state of emergency he declared Wednesday allows students to qualify for the state’s largest financial aid programs—including the Promise Scholarship and the Higher Education Grant Program—without filling out the FAFSA application. 1, the Times added.

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Ray Schroeder

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On October 24, the Biden-Harris administration announced amendments to the regulations implementing title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). The amended regulations will take effect on July 1, 2024.

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