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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The consequence: the richest institutions can fully fund the education of lower-income students, while the vast majority of working-class and lower-middle-class undergraduates must take out loans to pay for their education. Swensen, taking advantage of alternate assets, including hedge funds, private equity and natural resources.

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Faculty Strike Ends at U of Illinois at Chicago

Confessions of a Community College Dean

20 percent raise pools over the course of the 4-year contract[.] Increased professional development funds[.] As for student mental health wellness, the university said back then it had approved a “$4.47 Increased minimum salaries for the lowest paid faculty: $60,000 [non-tenure track] and $71,500 [tenure track].

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Faculty Strike Ends at U of Illinois at Chicago

Confessions of a Community College Dean

20 percent raise pools over the course of the 4-year contract[.] Increased professional development funds[.] As for student mental health wellness, the university said back then it had approved a “$4.47 Increased minimum salaries for the lowest paid faculty: $60,000 [non-tenure track] and $71,500 [tenure track.]

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Drive Enrollment Growth with First-Gen Pathways to Success: Changing Higher Education Podcast 167 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Marielena DeSanctis

The Change Leader, Inc.

With AP, ACE, or IB courses, high schools are inadvertently thinking about their students who are more likely to go out of state to a traditional R1 university and pushing them towards these courses because they’re universally accepted. My mother is our family’s first-generation student in the United States.

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A Guide to the Accreditation Process with the National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment (NCAAA)

Creatrix Campus

In 2016, the Saudi government invested a sum equal to one-third of its total national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the field of education after considering funding for high-quality HE practices for years. This team should include key staff members from different departments, including administration, academic affairs, and student services.

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Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness

EAB

Financial aid offices are well-positioned to provide guidance on these areas, but there are likely other offices on campus who also have resources to support students as they make this financial transition such as money management centers or student services.

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At stake is local control of an institution in a state that has admitted to years of inequitable funding for its only public historically Black college. A previous legislative report found between $150 and $544 million in unpaid land-grant funds should have gone to the university from fiscal years 1957 through 2007.