Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In Stephanie Land’s brave and important new book CLASS ( a follow-up to her memoir MAID , the basis for an award-winning Netflix series) she explains that even though she knew a college degree was the best chance she and her 6-year-old daughter had of escaping poverty, being deprived of food made it nearly impossible. The U.S.D.A.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

But the system doesn’t have enough administrative staff to navigate the complexities of managing a multistate workforce and can’t offer the flexibility some employees want. She also noted that a growing lack of financial aid officers at the colleges risks slowing down the processing of student financial aid paperwork.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

In addition to the grant and scholarship awards, I was able to pay for rent, food and other necessities by working at least 20 hours a week while I was in school. I started my career in higher ed in a financial aid office overseeing loans—distribution and collection. Tuition was $41 a credit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Those taking part in the fellowship have come from a wide range of academic fields, such as biology, nutritional science, anthropology, health administration, fungal ecology, social work, history, and neuroscience. They can work on their mentor’s already established research project or develop their own.

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Higher Ed Connects: Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2019

When it determines that students could use specific help, it connects them to corresponding on-campus resources, like the financial aid office or the career center. When appropriate, it also suggests specific next steps that administrators can take to help students overcome these struggles. Campuses are bureaucracies.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

Providing more financial aid and more information about financial aid can help prospective students make a true risk assessment. Providing more generous financial aid targeted based on need and simple to apply for has a strong positive impact on increasing enrollment and persistence.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For decades, colleges have consolidated many of their admissions and enrollment services functions under a single umbrella office—including, but not limited to, the bursar, the registrar, the cashier’s office and financial aid.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 25, 2022

A report by Yale faculty points to the possibility that university administrators have proliferated, while faculty salaries and budgets have stagnated. They don’t make a financial plan. They research colleges without any understanding of how financial aid works, or how rare those scholarships really are. How about a car?

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

April 24, 2023 Looking to Grow Your Health Care Administration Program? Try these 4 strategies. Here Are Four Tips April 17, 2023 The post How can you better support adult learners who are parents or guardians? appeared first on EAB.

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EAB

JULY 28, 2023

April 24, 2023 Looking to Grow Your Health Care Administration Program? Try these 4 strategies. Here Are Four Tips April 17, 2023 The post How can you better support adult learners who are parents or guardians? appeared first on EAB.

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EAB

MAY 9, 2023

So there are easy things that I've seen visiting community colleges, I visited a community college in Maine where the financial aid staff all went to lunch at the same time. If you ever go to Whole Foods and you ask where something is, they take you to the shelf. But some community colleges have managed to do it.

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EAB

AUGUST 8, 2023

We pay for food, we pay for their transportation from the airport to the airport, so we make sure that they have the really all encompassed, "red carpet experience", if you say so to speak, of what the Ross School of Business and the University of Michigan has to offer. We have our financial aid partners that come and talk to parents as well.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2023

For example, most first-gen students don’t know they can petition the academic standards committee for an extenuating circumstance to have an administrative drop from their course when they can. Families can come for 15 minutes, receive the diploma, and leave, or they can stay for four or five hours and enjoy DJs, food trucks, and all that.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Financial This grouping refers to how students pay for college and its associated cost. As might be expected, these conversations centered on longstanding concerns around tuition and financial aid, but often expanded into conversations around supporting the holistic needs of students, especially working students.

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EAB

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Financial This grouping refers to how students pay for college and its associated cost. As might be expected, these conversations centered on longstanding concerns around tuition and financial aid, but often expanded into conversations around supporting the holistic needs of students, especially working students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But they also neglect the fact that millions of college students are dealing with food insecurity and/or experiencing homelessness, and as a result most will never reach the finish line. We can now see clearly: food insecurity and homelessness are affecting students everywhere, at all types of colleges and universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

Similarly, an institution could consider an applicant’s discussion of how learning to cook traditional Hmong dishes from her grandmother sparked her passion for food and nurtured her sense of self by connecting her to past generations of her family.” They weren’t the only ones who thought that race-based financial aid was off the table.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2023

The Biden-Harris administration’s emergency pause on repayment and collections has given millions of families a much-needed break, but the pause won’t last forever. IDR plans help level the playing field between well-resourced and more disadvantaged students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 25, 2023

“Unfortunately, in the last several years, colleges and universities and financial aid offices have gotten used to a political game of chicken in Washington, D.C., Colleges are hoping that a potential default would be short and have a limited effect on students, given that aid is mostly distributed in the fall or winter. “For

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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. Drumm McNaughton 09:45 Well, that makes perfect sense, given that there is less financial aid coming from the States.

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