Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Community college leaders are largely thrilled about the rise in high school students enrolling in college classes, particularly after steep enrollment declines during the pandemic, and many are hoping the trend continues. The paper offers strategies for colleges to run dual-enrollment programs without breaking the bank.

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Ray Schroeder

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Still trying to recover from last year’s “freshman melt,” the University of Portland now faces a projected $17 million loss because of smaller-than-expected first-year enrollment, lower retention and having to offer higher financial aid packages.

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University Business

MARCH 16, 2023

Additionally, almost half of the respondents believed the biggest benefit of a college degree is the potential for a better job and income while only 23% chose its educational value. 27% worried that they “Will get into first-choice college but won’t be able to afford to attend.”

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College Forward

JANUARY 2, 2024

While getting to high school graduation is a milestone to celebrate, there’s a lot that happens between a student’s momentous cap toss and the moment they set foot in their first college classroom. This phenomenon known as “summer melt” occurs for many reasons, from missing class registration to issues securing adequate financial aid.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Several years ago, a wise colleague described someone else at the college – a terrific person, high performer, and just generally good egg – as having attained her dream job too young. It stuck with me. My wise colleague had a point. If so, what was the secret?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The silver lining for many students is that the university is also expanding financial aid, raising the income threshold for free tuition, room and board from $75,000 to $100,000. ” According to Stanford’s website, about two-thirds of students receive some form of financial aid.

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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

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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University Business

APRIL 16, 2024

.” Elite colleges and universities associated with the highest echelons of society also have a tactical reason to keep up appearances. Willamette University, a private liberal arts college in Oregon, experienced an enrollment uptick in 2021 following abysmal rates in 2019.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

She thinks states have also responded to concerns about college affordability by granting funding requests attached to promises for a tuition freeze—as state lawmakers did in Tennessee and are contemplating in Texas—or to help with financial aid in general. percent went to financial aid and 11.4

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 9, 2023

2: Assuming Online Learning is ‘Second Best’ Some policy makers, perhaps based on earlier efforts to root out for-profit online institutions that were seen as abusing federal financial aid programs, may continue to view online education as a “stepchild” in the higher ed ecosystem, according to Oates.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Transition point: Students seek to finance their educations Affordability Disconnect: Students find a lack of fair and equal access to financial aid ​Impact on time and price: Students are not receiving equitable aid and support to finance their educations.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 2, 2023

Assisting Students with Maximizing Financial Aid, Transferring, and Post-graduation Support Since Arrupe’s model depends on students receiving the maximum amount of Pell grants and state aid possible. And unlike most community colleges, all courses are credit-bearing, including remedial classes.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“It makes my heart so happy to know that students with disabilities, like myself, will get the help that we need to be better educated,” said Shawn Aleong, a sophomore at Temple majoring in legal studies and finance. “This is a monumental moment.”

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Director for Transfer & Pathways, Central New Mexico Community College University Research Optimizing institutional resources for research growth Nick Hagemeier, Interim Vice Provost for Research, East Tennessee State University Want to learn more about the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship?

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EAB

MAY 5, 2023

save your seat Continue reading The 4 stages of an integrated lifecycle approach for community college student success April 14, 2023 Recipes for Student Success March 16, 2023 5 higher ed thought leaders we are following February 27, 2023 How will we measure student success in the 2020s? Here’s what we learned.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Over time, my roles on campus shifted across units and evolved to include a wide range of administrative experiences in school units, from finance and HR to research support and event management to even a library.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Blogs Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness When I think back to my time in college, student loans were something that nearly everyone had, but not something any of us fully understood. Specifically, we weren’t educated on how to repay them.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

What inspires these grim thoughts is Kimball and Iler’s richly researched, provocative and pivotally important history of college endowments, campus fundraising campaigns, university finances, institutional spending and student debt. The result was to anger middle-class parents while failing to increase net revenue.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The interviewees were successful comebackers from California State University, Sacramento State and the Shasta-Tehama-Trinity Joint Community College District. For students who had a high number of college credits, raising their GPA above the 2.0

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Image: Financial wellness may not be the first area that comes to mind when thinking of well-being, but it is considered one of the eight dimensions of wellness. Inside Higher Ed spoke with three financial aid professionals about their best strategies to strengthen this area for students. What Is Financial Wellness?

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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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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JUNE 12, 2023

The New Student Experience at a Community College The enrollment data for community colleges is positive for the first time in a long time, with an overall enrollment increase of 2.1% Despite this recent trend reversal, community colleges can’t ignore the 37% decline (nearly 2.6

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Creatrix Campus

APRIL 4, 2023

Specialized accreditation may be awarded in areas such as accounting, finance, marketing, or management, among others. Improved curriculum and teaching quality Access to resources and networking opportunities including conferences, workshops, and research opportunities.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

So really for the last five years, as we've been doing our work and our resource optimization initiative to make certain that the university's finances, we're not only sound, but that our dollars within our budget flow into priorities. And they were going to plan to come back, and lots of times, we don't see them come back to us.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

And some may be reluctant to share financial data with the government. billion went unclaimed, according to an analysis by NerdWallet, a personal finance company. Tennessee’s position, said Kofoed, was likely a result of its Tennessee Promise program, which offers free community college but requires filling out the FAFSA.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 2, 2023

Gottlieb says these aren’t always bad news for students, either: “Sometimes it means that the student hasn’t shown up in Financial Aid to sign their promissory note.” ” More difficult are financial holds due to large balances that students must pay on their own.

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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. 2023 may be a bumpy ride, at least initially, and Hartle preached patience.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 24, 2022

But the biggest problem is that we can never compare a single kid who had two lives…one in which he went to a high-priced college and one in which he went to a community college and later transferred to the state school. Will you have to go into debt to finance this expensive degree?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

” Department officials have said that institutions on the list will be asked to submit a plan to improve their program’s financial value. Students also might receive a warning before they receive federal financial aid to attend a program on the list, according to a department fact sheet.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

However, 442 colleges (14%) left most students earning below that of high school graduates. Making this data available to students and families is vital to better safeguard them and taxpayers who help finance educational endeavors. billion in grants and establish policy for nearly $120 billion in Federal student aid every year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

After nearly 50 years of funding community colleges based on enrollment and outreach, the state of Texas is considering making the switch to outcome-based funding, rooted in metrics like retention, completion, and the successful transfer to four-year programs. Like the majority of community colleges in the U.S.,

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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 17, 2023

With far less fanfare than debt relief, the administration’s proposed reforms to income-driven repayment (IDR) programs , the details of which were released last week, represent a promising and significant step in delivering on higher education’s promise, as part of a needed suite of broader higher education financing reforms.

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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. million in 2021,” the commission’s report states.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Education Department on Tuesday unveiled the details of its planned overhaul of income-driven repayment, which could transform the financing of higher education by providing more generous student loan repayment and forgiveness terms. The proposed regulations will open for 30 days of public comment today.

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

Intelligent, an online news service, rated different colleges’ offerings, measuring criteria like tuition, faculty, retention rates and resources. Wellesley College (Mass.), Haverford College (Pa.), dominated topped the list, offering financial aid packages worth over $75,000. They experienced a whopping 12.4%

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