Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

NACUBO also found that colleges increased their endowment spending, with dollars increasingly flowing toward institutional operating budgets, largely focused on student financial aid. 21 Dartmouth College 8,065,743 8,484,189 -4.93 million), Lakeland Community College ($5.7

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” I care more than just graduation at community college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 12, 2023

Since any associated policy changes could affect a much wider set of services than originally expected, we thought that we’d use this space to share what we think are the key points that university leaders across higher education need to understand about the potential impact of recent and anticipated actions by the federal government.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Lately, university governing boards around the country have been considering the balance and diversity of intellectual scholarship in the institutions they oversee. That takes us to issues of higher education governance—a process that is often tediously slow and too often inefficient but nevertheless the way we do business today.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

To make matters worse, the most highly resourced campuses exacerbate institutional inequalities by absorbing a disproportionate share of government, philanthropic and foundation resources. Meanwhile, expenditures on administration, even excluding student services and student life, have increased markedly. Over time, as Howard R.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

Drumm McNaughton speaks with Dr. Marielena DeSanctis, president of the Community College of Denver, who shares some of the solutions she was able to identify based on her unique understanding of higher ed. She started her education career in K-12 and moved to community college leadership. Dr. DeSanctis is unique.

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 4, 2023

In recent years, the organization has expanded its focus to include issues such as sustainability, globalization, and technological innovation, reflecting the changing needs of business students and the wider business community. This fee covers the cost of the on-site peer review team and other administrative expenses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act. Yet there is an enormous SNAP gap in program utilization. In 2018 the U.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

The university has established over 1,300 articulation agreements with community colleges across the country. When a student from any of these community colleges applies to Franklin University, the system can instantly inform them about the transferability of their courses into their desired degree program.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Perhaps the most significant public policy moment for colleges and universities this year was the failure of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) legislation, after the administration and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin could not at arrive at a deal. million borrowers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

And some may be reluctant to share financial data with the government. The report attributes this change primarily to increases in the value of Pell Grant awards under the Biden administration. billion left behind represents a strong increase from 2017, when $2.3 This year’s $3.58 billion unclaimed.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

The department wrote a Dear Colleague letter in February that said any entity involved with the administration of an institution’s federal student aid is considered a third-party servicer, which puts them under the department’s oversight authority and subjects the companies’ contracts with institutions to regular audits.

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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 3, 2023

A program participation agreement is required to receive federal financial aid through Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965. “The Higher Education Act specifically limits the authority of the department to pierce the corporate veil and hold individuals financially responsible,” Kent said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

“The State of the Union is the president’s chance to address the nation and say, ‘these are the things I care about,’” said Jonathan Fansmith, senior vice president of government relations at the American Council on Education. Supreme Court, to indicate that his administration will not give up on relief for student borrowers. “It

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid for potentially deceptive practices. That report was later reissued to clarify and add more precise wording in some areas.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Image: If the Biden administration wants to create a list of “low-financial-value” postsecondary programs, it’s going to have to overcome stiff opposition from the higher education lobby, which decried the plan as a slippery slope, problematic and potentially dangerous.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

They also talk about the careers with the best ROI and how those with liberal arts degrees fare by comparison. Podcast Highlights Michael draws on his background as the former director of the College Scorecard program during his time in the Obama Administration to create user-friendly reports, utilizing the dataset’s 2,000 variables.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The discussion highlights the disparity between the advertised prices of college education and the actual costs borne by students and how the trend hurts recruitment and enrollment. This approach not only aids in student decision-making but also helps in building trust and credibility. from Harvard University. Well, thanks drum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep. We can now see clearly: food insecurity and homelessness are affecting students everywhere, at all types of colleges and universities. Government Accountability Office, demands it.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

Whether it’s candy bars, ballet barres or college education, the same two variables matter: cost and quality. In short, accreditors must hold institutions to tough standards to save students’ careers and taxpayers’ dollars.

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EAB

JUNE 30, 2023

With trustworthy data stored in a secure location (known as a data warehouse), a data management platform allows your campus to govern data, assign data access based on user roles, put data into action, and develop customized dashboards. EAB's data management platform, Edify , is built specifically for higher education.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Pell Grants are a form of federal financial aid, issued to lower-income students, that does not have to be repaid. much of it is held by government entities) is unsustainable. The government can only “force” its executive action on federally provided loans. I do support the idea of free tuition for community college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Education Department’s recent guidance expanding the definition of what it means to be a “third-party servicer” for institutions that receive federal financial aid funds put online program management companies, or OPMs, squarely in the center of the bull’s-eye. So no one was remotely surprised that the U.S.

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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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

But the university’s longtime president, Glenda Glover, alumni and other supporters of the Nashville institution have argued against a proposal that would place the institution under the oversight of the Tennessee Board of Regents, the governing board for 37 technical and community colleges in the state.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2023

Image: The Biden administration is moving forward on a sweeping plan to overhaul how student borrowers can repay their loans, though advocates want the Education Department to go further in its plan, while critics cite the price tag as an area of concern. Over all, the changes are expected to have a net budget impact of $137.9

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

” Increasing the Pell Grant by is a key part of the administration’s plan to make college more affordable. The administration also is renewing calls for free community college with a $90 billion proposal over 10 years. The American Association of Community Colleges did not have a comment Thursday.

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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. “But all of a sudden, now it is.” ” Thomas L.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 6, 2023

“This is especially ambitious in light of everything that the department’s already done and everything that they still need to finish,” said Clare McCann, a higher education fellow at Arnold Ventures, a philanthropy, who previously worked in the Education Department during the current administration.

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

” In a letter to the board, the president described Lewis’s secrecy, hostility, and disregard for “good corporate governance,” ultimately leading to Pettit’s resignation. Lewis then stepped down when the letter was leaked to the broader community, who demanded his resignation. Wellesley College (Mass.),

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

12 December · Episode 185 AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education 49 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Last year, the Government Accountability Office reviewed the companies and urged more scrutiny from the Education Department, finding that the agency didn’t have enough information to gauge the scale or legality of the companies’ agreements with institutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2023

Diversity of faculty and administration. Colleges or universities shouldn’t just try to increase the diversity of the student body but of their faculty and administration. So there is financial aid for students, and they see it as a great benefit to keep them persisting toward their credentials.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

One important policy consideration is how divided government at the federal level will affect higher education. College presidents and other high-level administrators have been active in negotiated rule making in the past, so this is a matter higher education leaders should particularly watch in 2023.

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