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How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.

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Birmingham-Southern Board Votes to Remain Open

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Birmingham-Southern has also launched an effort to raise $200 million by May 2026. ” BSC’s financial crisis dates back more than a decade. In 2010 it was discovered that errors in administering financial aid cost the college millions of dollars, which then prompted layoffs. Hide by line?:

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Building pipelines After attending undergraduate and graduate school, Thompson built a career as a professor, administrator, and researcher/writer before joining the CPE in 2009 as senior vice president for academic affairs. Part of the CPE’s role is to bring about a positive return on the investment of public funds in higher education.

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Groups Seek Details on FAFSA Simplification Timeline

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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Elite private colleges may be the only financially healthy segment 3 years from now

University Business

Higher education gained an unlikely asset during the pandemic, and it came in the shape of billions of federal emergency funding. While CARES Act funding largely kept schools afloat and even jumpstarted a renaissance at HBCUs, one global management consulting firm believes most higher ed is unprepared to deal with a post-pandemic landscape.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The consequence: the richest institutions can fully fund the education of lower-income students, while the vast majority of working-class and lower-middle-class undergraduates must take out loans to pay for their education. Swensen, taking advantage of alternate assets, including hedge funds, private equity and natural resources.

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College endowments dropped in fiscal year 2022

Confessions of a Community College Dean

NACUBO also found that colleges increased their endowment spending, with dollars increasingly flowing toward institutional operating budgets, largely focused on student financial aid. Even as endowment returns dipped, colleges tapped those assets to fund their needs. The median percentage of budgets funded by endowments was 5.3