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Alleged Payment to Lobbyist Latest in Fiscal Concerns for Community College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Faren Siminoff, concerns are ongoing about the financial management of the community college. The union followed up in May with bullet points for “16 NCCFT Investment Initiatives for the 2025 Operations Budget” to help save on costs and preempt future deficits.

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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. Some roles and departments – such as the divisions of administration and finance or student affairs and enrollment management – were consolidated. And they did.

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Interest rate changes could challenge universities, student loans and post 16 and vocational education

SRHE

If there is another 0.25% increase in the base rate, as is widely anticipated, this will place government and university finances under further pressure over the next few years with significant negative implications for HE students, the UK Government’s education budget in general and the further education college budget in particular.

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Making financial wellness a priority for student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“It is important to us that financial aid and finances are not what people are thinking about and worrying about through their college experience,” Runiewicz says. Give special attention to building budgeting skills Budgeting was the No. You have to have some kind of a budget,” Runiewicz will tell students.