Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Department of Education (ED) is delaying the sending out of student information relevant for financial aid calculations to institutions, higher ed scholars and officials have voiced concern and uncertainty over how this change will affect low-income and first-generation students in particular.

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University Business

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Most colleges are not following best practices for providing clear and standard information in their financial aid offers. But about 90% of colleges “understate or don’t include the net price” in their offers, according to a report released this week by the Government Accountability Office.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: I write regarding Wesley Whistle's December essay urging Congress to step in to improve the transparency of financial aid letters. Consider that a third of schools in a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report used a federal template created by the U.S. Justin Draeger.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

With this in mind, college leaders should know to what extent their state is helping remedy potential students’ financial inhibitions by providing need-based financial aid. It’s no secret that, for the general population, college cost is becoming a growing concern among students and their parents alike.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

One of the reasons that many of these efforts haven’t made as much difference as they could have is the administrative burdens that they place on students—the difficulty of the steps that students and their families must go through to apply for financial aid, or even to college at all. “By said Gándara. “Or

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

An additional 1,600-1,700 students at Emory University received grants and scholarships instead of loans in their financial aid packages this fall, the Atlanta-based institution announced recently, more than doubling the number of undergraduates expected to finish school with limited or no debt. This allows us to enroll those students.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Blogs Key takeaways from government guidance on SCOTUS’s affirmative action ruling The Department of Education finally issued its eagerly anticipated follow-up guidance on the Supreme Court’s SFFA ruling in September. Since the Court’s ruling did not specifically address financial aid, some have assumed that it is exempt.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Now, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce has released a report on the potential impacts of the decision and how higher ed and governments can react. The CEW also proposes a bold admissions reform that the governments could make: requiring that every college enroll at least 20% Pell grant recipients.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2023

Recruiters lied about Ashford’s cost of attendance and financial aid offerings, as well as how long the programs took to complete. The government also announced that it would seek to recoup the cost of the forgiveness from Ashford’s current owner, the University of Arizona (UA).

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

According to the school, student financial aid will not be affected. . The school had been “on monitoring” for two years, the maximum consecutive monitoring period, according to the agency.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

Ten top-scored community college programs compete in one of three award categories — instructional programs and services, workforce development, and planning, governance, and finance. Rose Martinez, director of the Bellwether College Consortium. Competing teams vie for both the Best in Showcase Award and the respected Bellwether Award.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the federal government tries to streamline financial aid, things wind up becoming more complicated. High school seniors could lose out on thousands of dollars as a result. Two states, Minnesota and Texas, have moved their financial aid deadlines backwards to give students more time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It’s our job at VA and across the federal government to deliver on that promise, making sure that veterans and their families not only have access to affordable education through the GI Bill – but also that they are protected from education fraud and abuse. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They deserve to be the focus of public attention and philanthropic giving and the priority for governments, instead of the tiny number of already highly-resourced gated colleges always dominating the news. Students require and deserve far more than band-aids. I call a place that does this a #RealCollege. What else can and should we do?

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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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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The suit, brought by an anonymous former employee, alleges that the for-profit college defrauded the federal government out of hundreds of millions of dollars by deliberately failing to provide students with the number of learning hours needed to meet federal financial aid requirements. However, Senior U.S.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2024

Because of the delays in the FAFSA rollout, schools do not have the information they need from the government to assemble financial aid offers. Students have had to postpone decisions about where to attend college because they have no idea how much aid they will receive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 20, 2023

Additionally, investing in stipends, financial aid, and support programs for career transitioning can help people navigate economic transitions successfully and adapt to changing industry demands. 4.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Nine out of 10 colleges either exclude or understate their net cost of attendance in student financial aid offers, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a government watchdog organization.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

Recruitment involved more than competitive financial aid packages, glossy brochures, and the shine of rankings. Protect faculty governance in colleges and universities.

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EAB

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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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Ray Schroeder

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

They’d be optimistic, for starters, about the prospects for doubling the maximum Pell Grant award for students, expanding Pell to cover short-term programs like job training classes or standardizing federal financial aid applications.

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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. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 4, 2023

Department of Education plans to require private college leaders to assume personal liability for unpaid debts institutions owe to the government when their institutions “fail to operate in a financially responsible way.”

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University Business

JANUARY 24, 2023

The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association ( SHEEO ), an organization that serves to support statewide governing, policy and coordinating boards of postsecondary education staff, recently published a report outlining 10 state priorities for higher education in 2023.

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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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Hope College Network

JANUARY 14, 2021

It is the primary application for receiving need-based aid at American colleges and universities. If you need help paying for college, submitting your FAFSA is the first step in applying for financial aid from most colleges and universities in the United States. When do I submit my FAFSA? What happens after I submit my FAFSA?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2023

Department of Education is stepping up with $368 million in new grant funding to aid teacher retention and recruitment and improve diversity. But there’s more the federal government can do. Helping schools of education produce more teachers is only one half of the equation.

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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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EAB

JUNE 13, 2023

EAB’s Kathy Ruby and Madeleine Rhyneer explore changes to FAFSA forms themselves and to how the federal government calculates eligibility for student financial aid. Follow the podcast on Spotify , Google Podcasts , Apple Podcasts , SoundCloud and Stitcher or visit our podcast homepage for additional episodes.

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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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EAB

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Quick Facts Total enrollment of 673 students 76% retention rate 3 systems (admissions, enrollment SIS, and financial aid) combined for visualizations 56% six-year graduation rate The Challenge Elmira had difficultly accessing data from their Enterprise Resource System (ERP), making detailed enrollment analysis and strategy challenging.

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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. Colleges tapped into their endowments for a variety of reasons, but primarily for student financial aid.

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Study and Go Abroad

OCTOBER 27, 2022

How does the country’s government provide healthcare assistance for international students? Financial aid. What are the eligibility requirements for government funding ? What financial aid does the school offer specifically for international students ? What is covered under these plans?

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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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University Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

Public and private colleges and universities have long enjoyed independence from federal governing bodies over the nature of their operations. The reforms would tighten foreign financial disclosure requirements and strip federal financial aid to any institution that fails compliance over three consecutive or nonconsecutive years.

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