Administration Government Higher Education Student Financial Aid 
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 25, 2024
Education Department (ED) said it has discovered a calculation error in student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them, potentially continuing delays for college applications.
University Business
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Nine out of 10 colleges either exclude or understate their net cost of attendance in student financial aid offers, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a government watchdog organization. So I think bringing some transparency back lets [us] reevaluate the real value of higher education.”
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 10, 2023
Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: I write regarding Wesley Whistle's December essay urging Congress to step in to improve the transparency of financial aid letters. Consider that a third of schools in a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report used a federal template created by the U.S. Justin Draeger.
University Business
DECEMBER 6, 2022
But about 90% of colleges “understate or don’t include the net price” in their offers, according to a report released this week by the Government Accountability Office. “The GAO report highlights the ways schools are falling short in communicating college costs to students. Financial aid transparency figures.
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.
Edu Alliance Journal
DECEMBER 5, 2021
He has consulted with more than 50 colleges, universities, and educational organizations including the College Board, Educational Testing Services, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the State of Maryland, and the U.S. Government Accountability Office. He has lived in Russia and has conducted research in postsecondary education there.
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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