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Potential Processing Delays for Financial Aid Due to Calculation Error

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Department of Education. “It

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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. Each time, I have updated the readings considerably as the field is moving quickly and I figure out what works best for the students. Eight economic facts on higher education.

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Higher Ed Organization Leaders to Form Task Force to Address Financial Aid Confusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The “Paying for College Transparency Initiative” seeks to improve clarity, accuracy, and consistency of student financial aid offers. This national task force will create financial aid offer principles and standards to help students understand education costs and compare offers.

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Senators Concerned About FAFSA Form Error Harming Students in Mixed-Status Families

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Senators Alex Padilla of California and Bernie Sanders of Vermont in a letter to Education Secretary Dr. Miguel A. Padilla and Sanders, who is also chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, led 24 Senators in urging U.S.

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Higher Ed Institutions Garner $58B Through Philanthropy in FY23

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

higher education institutions was $58 billion in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023. percent decline from the record high reported in 2022, it demonstrates continued significant philanthropic support to the important higher education sector. Giving to U.S. Although this represents a 2.5

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Education Dept. Investigates Baker College

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Department of Education has reportedly opened an investigation into Baker College’s marketing and recruiting practices following an article last year by The Detroit Free Press and ProPublica that revealed the college spent more on marketing and recruiting than on student financial aid.

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LETHERIO ZEIGLER

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Letherio Zeigler Letherio Zeigler has been named financial aid director at Savannah Technical College in Georgia. He served as director of student financial aid at Mississippi Valley State University.