Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

He noted in a news release after the vote that the board had “made the informed and thoughtful decision to keep Birmingham-Southern open” and that the college has “been working closely with our allies in state and local government to secure bridge funding.” Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Birmingham-Southern College, which lost millions of dollars after finding that it made financial aid errors in 2010, is in danger of closing in 2023, AL.com reported. Lawmakers said the private college may close if it doesn't get a government bailout. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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University Business

JANUARY 24, 2023

The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association ( SHEEO ), an organization that serves to support statewide governing, policy and coordinating boards of postsecondary education staff, recently published a report outlining 10 state priorities for higher education in 2023.

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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. Hope and dreams.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It is also deeply consequential: students at unaccredited colleges are ineligible for federal financial aid and find it almost impossible to transfer credits or be admitted into graduate and professional programs. This applies to any governing board, whether public, private not-for-profit, or private for-profit.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Quick Facts Total enrollment of 673 students 76% retention rate 3 systems (admissions, enrollment SIS, and financial aid) combined for visualizations 56% six-year graduation rate The Challenge Elmira had difficultly accessing data from their Enterprise Resource System (ERP), making detailed enrollment analysis and strategy challenging.

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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 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

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. Colleges tapped into their endowments for a variety of reasons, but primarily for student financial aid.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2023

Institutional accreditation is a quality assurance process that provides colleges and universities access to critical resources once attained: federal financial aid, the ability to transfer and accept student transcripts and credits, and the increased likelihood of degree acceptance from employers and other higher ed institutions.

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Edu Alliance Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Government Accountability Office. Hossler has received career achievement awards from the American College Personnel Association, the Association for Institutional Research, the College Board, and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. Edu Alliance Group, Inc.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic dawned in Spring 2020, the federal government granted institutions of higher education a series of waivers and flexibilities that allowed them to continue functioning under radically different conditions. This adjustment may be an administratively complex process. It sort of starts a clock.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Graduates of the program find jobs in hospitals, educational settings, business and tourism related companies, government institutions, translation companies and as freelancer translators. Rueda-Acedo says the service learning is extremely beneficial in retention as well as the students’ personal connection to this profession.

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 4, 2023

The leadership of ACBSP accreditation The leadership of ACBSP accreditation The ACBSP (Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs) is governed by a Board of Directors, which is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the organization and overseeing its operations.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Despite these challenges, a small but dedicated group of educators, administrators, and students worked hard to provide educational opportunities and promote academic excellence. The Supreme Education Council (SEC) is the primary governing body responsible for the education sector in Qatar.

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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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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

MAY 11, 2022

Claremont McKenna College’s former Vice President for Admission and Financial Aid engaged in false reporting practices that went beyond inflating SAT numbers, misrepresenting statistics on ACT scores, class ranking and application numbers, according to a report published by O’Melveny & Meyers LLP. News & World Report.

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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

This success story underscores the crucial role of technology in not only supporting administrative functions but also in driving institutional growth. Technology, governance the same way. The original intent of TPS regulations was to regulate entities that directly administer Title IV financial aid.

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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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Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

It is important that students take into consideration how they will deal with college finances as they decide which schools to apply to, and it is important that admissions officers and college administrators help low-income students to develop strategies and programs so that they can succeed.

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University Business

JANUARY 5, 2024

Turning into the new year, the Education Department has released a series of papers outlining how they propose to increase program integrity and institutional quality in higher education, building on the Biden Administration’s longstanding mission to improve school accountability.

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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

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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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2023

The Department believes it’s responsible for ensuring that the Federal financial aid monies is being properly used, and thus are examining transactions between institutions and these enterprises. He returned to New York City government as Assistant City Administrator and Director of University Relations.

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Creatrix Campus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Both educators and administrators can benefit from the power of data analysis by gaining useful insights that motivate wise choices and improve student outcomes. Streamlining administrative processes. Data management automation can help collate and map tons of data seamlessly, reducing administrative burdens and human errors.

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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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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. Colleges must also help communicate the ROI for getting a post-secondary degree. The same thing happens today with students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

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. Nearly 13 million college students divvied up $19.5

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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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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

The Biden administration has been doing extraordinary work on the cost side of higher education—seeking ( if the Supreme Court will permit it ) general loan forgiveness and reforming income-driven repaymen t , Public Service Loan Forgiveness and borrower defense to repayment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

Over 2,300 student borrowers who were ripped off by their online for-profit college will have their loans forgiven, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. My administration won’t stand for colleges taking advantage of hardworking students and borrowers,” said President Joe Biden in a statement. billion dollars in relief to 1.1

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University Business

JULY 12, 2023

Financial aid offices often deal with some of higher education’s most complex, nuanced and flat-out tricky fine-print problems. This delay in aid can lessen students’ financial aid rewards and impact their decision-making. Recent national developments will only exacerbate the problem.

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