Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

During his tenure, he worked to simplify financial aid, oversaw federal investments in efforts to increase college completion, and advocated for the president’s America’s College Promise proposal. "As Earlier this year, he also launched an unsuccessful bid to become governor of Maryland. But it was his work as U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges.

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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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University Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

However, growing investment needs across state government, coupled with volatile budget surpluses, require higher ed stakeholders to remain incisive with their demands. In the report , SHEEO identified that the majority of states in question this year are working on healthy budgets thanks to a sturdy national economy and robust reserve funds.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Out-of-state enrollment at the University of Wisconsin at Madison increased by 29 percent in the three years after the state government removed a cap on nonresidents in 2015, according to a new working paper from researchers published by Brown University’s school of education. Tuition revenue also rose significantly, by 47 percent.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But after showing up at one of Michigan’s community colleges, the returning student is given a high-stakes test in math and English to see if they are “ready” for college-level work. Yet students spend their time and money in these courses while burning through their financial aid.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Nearly 13 million college students divvied up $19.5 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.

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

” In a letter to the board, the president described Lewis’s secrecy, hostility, and disregard for “good corporate governance,” ultimately leading to Pettit’s resignation. Lewis then stepped down when the letter was leaked to the broader community, who demanded his resignation. Wellesley College (Mass.),

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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. Some groups say that will mean some families will have to pay more for college.

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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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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Creating a Customized Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Dashboard Elmira College's partnership with Edify About Elmira College is a private college with a total enrollment of 673 students, a 76% retention rate, and a 56% six-year graduation rate.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

In his latest podcast episode, Dr. Drumm McNaughton talks with two CEW professors who worked on the study, Research Professor of Education and Economics Dr. Examples include expanding recruitment efforts and creating stronger partnerships between high schools and colleges. More outreach and advising can demystify college for students.

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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.

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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We’re changing the landscape of how community colleges serve underserved students,” says Espiritu. “We Having cohorts here is really important, especially for engineering and computer science because it’s a community that supports each other.” I care more than just graduation at community college.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

One important policy consideration is how divided government at the federal level will affect higher education. This means that college leaders should pay close attention to the policy issues that matter most to their state-level public officials. There are a lot of interesting policy contexts as we head further into 2023.

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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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University Business

JULY 25, 2023

Franklin University is pursuing this goal by removing “points of friction”: delays due to document transfers, credit for prior learning, admissions and financial aid processing operations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Last year, the Government Accountability Office reviewed the companies and urged more scrutiny from the Education Department, finding that the agency didn’t have enough information to gauge the scale or legality of the companies’ agreements with institutions.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

” Tata said this includes community colleges and trade schools. The grant, provided to students for the first time this past fall, assists foster youth at public colleges and universities after other financial aid and any family contributions are exhausted. Things happen incrementally,” Raucher said.

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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. She said it’s likely the department’s use of this authority would likely depend on how risky the institution is and how much federal financial aid is at stake.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 27, 2023

” Christine Price, program coordinator for the Skills, Training and Education for Personal Success (STEPS) program at Austin Community College in Texas, said she gets phone calls from people wanting to know if STEPS is a “real college” program.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 12, 2023

The primary rule change is designating a CISO or a qualified individual responsible for protecting customer information or student financial aid data. Brian is also an Adjunct Professor at Naugatuck Valley Community College, where he has developed and teaches cybersecurity courses. There are nine elements.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Education Department’s recent guidance expanding the definition of what it means to be a “third-party servicer” for institutions that receive federal financial aid funds put online program management companies, or OPMs, squarely in the center of the bull’s-eye. So no one was remotely surprised that the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

Students also will receive a warning before they receive federal financial aid to attend a program considered to have a low financial value. “If students are unable to pay back their loans in full, maybe the programs that they attended are not something that the federal government should be funding,” he said.

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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

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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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

MARCH 31, 2023

” Before this latest memo, he said, the department hadn’t communicated directly with colleges about the particular SNAP benefits during the public health emergency. He said the memo clearly says that colleges and states can and should work together to get students information about the program.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The federal government’s COVID assistance played a critical role in temporarily sustaining institutions, particularly smaller colleges, which otherwise faced the risk of closure. million in the first round of COVID relief funds, underscoring the significant impact of these aids.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 6, 2023

Colleges and universities are only eligible for federal financial aid if accredited by a Department of Education-approved accreditor. And this doesn’t consider the “ enrollment cliff ,” the decline in college-age students that will begin next year.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

12 December · Episode 185 AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education 49 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The federal government (Department of Defense, CIA) and US corporations (particularly federal contractors) have also held great importance in the direction of higher education, servicing their most oppressive anti-democratic, colonial elements. Thorstein Veblen and Upton Sinclair provided a great deal of information on this.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

Tom Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, said concerns over a potential economic downturn and skepticism of higher education's value for students and state economies alike could make it more difficult for higher ed institutions to make their case to lawmakers.

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