Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The new FAFSA formula removes the number of family members in college from calculations, and “in many cases,” will make students with college-attending siblings “be eligible for considerably less financial aid,” a 2023 Brookings Institute report stated. It then proceeded with its pre-announced delayed launch on Dec.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
But recent findings from a year later show marked—though inequitable—progress toward the foundation’s goal that 60 percent of working-age adults in the country hold a degree or credential by 2025. For example, Washington, D.C.,
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
The other universities that failed to achieve 50 percent—Bond, Federation and Notre Dame Australia—are due for re-registration in 2024 or 2025. Last year TEQSA reversed its decision not to award university college status to a Christian education provider that had subsequently appealed to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 27, 2023
” Christine Price, program coordinator for the Skills, Training and Education for Personal Success (STEPS) program at Austin Community College in Texas, said she gets phone calls from people wanting to know if STEPS is a “real college” program.
Higher Education Inquirer
MAY 14, 2024
This despite the commonly-held belief that college is the only way to improve social mobility. From 2011 onward, the College Meltdown was most visible with for-profit colleges and community colleges, but other non-elite schools and for-profit businesses were also affected.
Edu Alliance Journal
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
American higher education overall has 39 million people with Some College, No Credential (SCNC) as of July 2020 according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The most recent study dated 2017 shows the following: 30% of first-year students drop out before their second year of college. Conclusion.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 17, 2023
Image: The Biden administration’s $90 billion plan to provide free community college likely won’t make it through Congress, but supporters of the effort say the request shows it’s a priority for the administration and helps to continue the national conversation about the policy. percent decline in enrollment.
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