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Potential Processing Delays for Financial Aid Due to Calculation Error

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Justin Draeger A vendor working for the federal government incorrectly calculated a financial aid formula for more than 200,000 students, the department noted. The Technical FAQ and Known Issues Guide will document and respond to frequently asked questions about production ISIRs for the 2024-25 FAFSA year.

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HBCUs Can Help Reverse the Black College Enrollment Recession

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A federal government report documented how HBCUs continue to face challenges securing funding to maintain and improve campus infrastructure, “potentially jeopardizing their long-term sustainability.” Yet, we know that even this support is not sufficient to the challenge HBCUs face.

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Distance education via online learning may be in a for a huge shake-up due to this proposal

University Business

For example, a January document from Department officials says SARA allows institutions “to evade State rules and leverages its veto power to override any proposed changes to current distance education policy. Institutions, especially for-profits, have recently come to light for defrauding in-need students.

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Auditor: Unable to Verify Education Dept.’s Debt-Relief Estimate

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Saying it found “material weakness” in the Education Department’s financial statements for the last year, an outside auditor declined to issue an opinion on the documents. The Congressional Budget Office, Congress’s nonpartisan research arm, has estimated it could cost the federal government $400 billion over 30 years.

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FAFSA: Five things to know

Hope College Network

First, apply for a federal student aid ID number from the federal government. This is your username and password for federal student aid websites such as studentaid.gov. Once the federal government has reviewed your information, they will send your data to the colleges and universities you requested.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Quantitative data are also essential, especially for documenting patterns of inequity and raising questions about how bias and other forces lead to observed differences. At the foundation of any effort to improve faculty diversity must be data that document the social identities and background characteristics of faculty.

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What universities should do now in the uncertain OPM landscape

EAB

February Department of Education (ED) Dear Colleague Letter massively increases ED oversight (for now) In the last year, the federal government has taken several key actions that sowed confusion among Professional, Continuing, and Online (PCO) leaders, made worse by the February 2023 ED Dear Colleague Letter.