Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. College leaders report staffing losses at all levels, including IT workers, student success professionals, dining hall workers and executive leaders, she said.

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EAB

JULY 21, 2023

Blogs Why customer service matters for community colleges Learnings and recommendations from EAB’s 2023 customer service survey I just talked to someone in registration, and they told me to call you! What are the features of a “modern student experience,” and how do community colleges stack up?

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

Public Administration Review, 78 (4), 626-639. link ) University of Tennessee System’s FY2024 budget: [link] University of Tennessee System’s FY2022 annual financial report: [link] UTK’s Budget Allocation Model (responsibility center management) website: [link] Higher education expenditures Archibald, R. link ) Ward, J. Broton, K.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Community college leaders are largely thrilled about the rise in high school students enrolling in college classes, particularly after steep enrollment declines during the pandemic, and many are hoping the trend continues. The paper offers strategies for colleges to run dual-enrollment programs without breaking the bank.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It’s now common knowledge among college administrators and staff that many students experience shortfalls of the essentials. Students require and deserve far more than band-aids. Let’s say I run a community college in Colorado and want to effectively support my students’ basic needs. What else can and should we do?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

Keith Curry likes to walk the campus of Compton College, the two-year school that he has led for the last 13 years — two as interim president and chief executive officer (CEO) and 11 as its permanent leader. It was a devastating blow to the college. There is much to celebrate. This is it.” The trio call themselves the Equity Avengers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

During his tenure, he worked to simplify financial aid, oversaw federal investments in efforts to increase college completion, and advocated for the president’s America’s College Promise proposal. "As Earlier this year, he also launched an unsuccessful bid to become governor of Maryland. But it was his work as U.S.

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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. You may be able to go to community college, pay your tuition, have your books, etc.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Colleges employed 3.9 Community college employee rolls have continued to shrink. And the gains have come despite the fact that community college workforces have continued to shrink, dropping by more than 4 percent over all since 2020 and by nearly 6 percent among instructors. million people in 2022, up 1.75

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

” Colleges found in violation of that prohibition would lose access to grant programs administered directly by the department and indirectly through the states—but not federal financial aid. “Our only disappointment is that the administration took two years to issue this proposed rule.”

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University Business

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Joe Biden’s tenure in office has proven his administration does not take the pandemic lightly for higher education: His $40 billion bandage has helped over 18 million students receive emergency aid since 2021, according to the Department of Education’s latest performance report on HEERF.

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University Business

JULY 27, 2023

Federal regulators have enhanced their requirements that colleges and universities have a comprehensive cybersecurity program in place. If they don’t, they may be unable to participate in Title IV programs and award federal financial aid. Colleges in some states will already be familiar with NIST.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Image: Nearly a decade after the Obama administration broached the idea of rating colleges and universities, the Biden administration is ready to take another crack at the historically fraught concept. The Obama administration didn’t end up rating institutions after opposition from higher education groups and others.)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Financial aid administrators at colleges and universities say a lack of time and guidance from the U.S. Department of Education are key barriers they’ll face in preparing to carry out the coming overhaul of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. 1—the launch date for the FAFSA since 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Indeed, while the scientific review process involves feedback, college administration and even teaching involves very little. I see so much potential in the administrators, staff, and faculty who are building new ways to gather and analyze data, reflect, pause when needed, acquire new skills, and most of all ask questions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Nearly 13 million college students divvied up $19.5 billion in federal COVID-19 emergency aid in 2021, and the Education Department estimated that 18 million total—80 percent of whom were Pell Grant recipients—received aid during the first two years of the Biden administration.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

Still, a combination of technology and legislative changes should lead to a simpler process to fill out the application, which is essential for students to access need-based federal and state financial aid. Desjean said knowing students’ plans would help administrators prepare more accurate offers.

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Robert Kelchen

JUNE 15, 2023

Public Administration Review, 78 (4), 626-639. link ) University of Tennessee System’s FY2023 budget: [link] University of Tennessee System’s FY2022 annual financial report: [link] UTK’s Budget Allocation Model website: [link] Higher education expenditures Archibald, R. Journal of Student Financial Aid, 48 (3), Article 4.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Image: Financial wellness may not be the first area that comes to mind when thinking of well-being, but it is considered one of the eight dimensions of wellness. Inside Higher Ed spoke with three financial aid professionals about their best strategies to strengthen this area for students. What Is Financial Wellness?

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Plus, how current students, faculty, administration, and overall staff engage with the campus has changed. Gerardo de los Santos, vice president for community college relations at National University, believes colleges and universities should adopt the notion of the “hybrid campus.”

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Creating a Customized Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Dashboard Elmira College's partnership with Edify About Elmira College is a private college with a total enrollment of 673 students, a 76% retention rate, and a 56% six-year graduation rate.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: Higher education administrators say a change in the federal student aid formula could mean lower levels of financial aid for children whose parents run family farms or small businesses, and they want Congress to take action. million in 2021,” the commission’s report states.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

in rhetoric and intercultural communication, she earned a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean at the CUNY Graduate Center. During her time in administration, John Jay’s graduation rate rose from 24% to 41%. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Department of Education is supposed to release an updated version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid in October, but organizations representing financial aid officers and college access groups are seeking to confirm that timeline. 1, as currently planned.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

The Biden administration is best known for one thing: vastly overreaching its authority and then acting surprised when it gets pushback. But as written, the new guidance will increase regulatory burdens, stifle innovation, balloon administrative compliance costs and reduce access to education, particularly for nontraditional learners.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Melanie Storey, deputy director of policy implementation and oversight for the Office of Federal Student Aid, told attendees at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators’ leadership conference that the agency wouldn’t commit to a launch date this fall, though it is working aggressively toward an Oct.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Several years ago, a wise colleague described someone else at the college – a terrific person, high performer, and just generally good egg – as having attained her dream job too young. It stuck with me. My wise colleague had a point. If so, what was the secret?

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

Intelligent, an online news service, rated different colleges’ offerings, measuring criteria like tuition, faculty, retention rates and resources. Wellesley College (Mass.), Haverford College (Pa.), dominated topped the list, offering financial aid packages worth over $75,000. They experienced a whopping 12.4%

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

William Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Harvard College weighs in favor of taking time off between high school and the first year of college to pursue a special project or activity, work, or spend time in another meaningful way. Many actually encourage gap years, including the Ivy League.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

Public Administration Review, 78(4), 626-639. link ) University of Tennessee System’s FY2024 budget: [link] University of Tennessee System’s FY2022 annual financial report: [link] UTK’s Budget Allocation Model (responsibility center management) website: [link] Higher education expenditures Archibald, R. link ) Rutherford, A., &

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 16, 2023

The communications and marketing office began working with institutional research to launch a series of two-way text messaging pilot programs this past fall. “We ended up partnering with a two-way texting vendor who caters to the higher education sector and works with several other community colleges in our state,” she says.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

In 2010 it was discovered that errors in administering financial aid cost the college millions of dollars, which then prompted layoffs. The college has also struggled in other areas in the past, including significant leadership turnover. Birmingham-Southern has also struggled with falling enrollment in recent years.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

Lumina Foundation video series on federal financial aid: [link]. Mobility report cards: The role of colleges in intergenerational mobility. Public Administration Review, 78 (4), 626-639. University of Tennessee System’s FY2020 annual financial report: [link]. The financial viability of higher education.

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

Tackling workforce needs with financial assistance Maine Free College, a free college scholarship initiative introduced by the Maine Community College System (MCCS) in the 2022-23 academic year, has helped contribute to a mass resurgence in enrollment compared to the rest of the country.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

In his latest podcast episode, Dr. Drumm McNaughton talks with two CEW professors who worked on the study, Research Professor of Education and Economics Dr. Examples include expanding recruitment efforts and creating stronger partnerships between high schools and colleges. More outreach and advising can demystify college for students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 23, 2023

“More than 17 million students and thousands of schools use the FAFSA form to help access and award financial aid every year, but far too many are locked out of aid because of the cumbersome processes and outdated technology that come with the current form,” FSA chief operating officer Richard Cordray said in a statement.

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