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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. It means the institution changes how we develop faculty and advise students – where all 6,662 Compton college students benefit.

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How enrollment leaders should navigate the new FAFSA processing delay

EAB

The latest news from the federal government suggests that students and families will be able to access the new form at the end of December, but data from the new FAFSAs will not be available to schools until the end of January. Once FAFSA data is released to us, we are committed to sharing financial aid information as soon as possible.

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Beyond ideological debates, a focus on process (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

From a macro perspective, higher education oversight operates as a three-legged stool held up by the states, the federal government and accrediting agencies, collectively known as the triad, all charged with protecting the interests of students, taxpayers and the public.

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Let’s Partner with Agriculture to Address Food Insecurity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act. Yet there is an enormous SNAP gap in program utilization.

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Student Loans, College Costs, and Parental Self-Denial

Great College Advice

A report by Yale faculty points to the possibility that university administrators have proliferated, while faculty salaries and budgets have stagnated. They don’t make a financial plan. They research colleges without any understanding of how financial aid works, or how rare those scholarships really are.

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College Students Are Hungry to Learn Everywhere

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep. Now Congress and federal agencies have a full picture of the problem. We must ensure that federal data collection continues so that policymakers know what they are dealing with.

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Leveraging PEP and EMI Data to Improve Institutional Value and Student ROI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 173 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Michael Itzkowitz

The Change Leader, Inc.

billion in grants and establish policy for nearly $120 billion in Federal student aid every year. billion in grants and establish policy for nearly $120 billion in Federal student aid every year. Now, I don’t have the information on individual students.