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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.

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Is your college following the 10 best practices for financial aid transparency?

University Business

Most colleges are not following best practices for providing clear and standard information in their financial aid offers. That’s a direct quote from the latest federal analysis of how easy—or difficult—colleges and universities are making it for students to figure out how much higher ed will cost.

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Legislation won't solve unclear financial aid offers (letter)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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St. Augustine's University Placed on Probation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Are your school’s hidden costs spooking students? Here’s how to tell it to them straight

University Business

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. So I think bringing some transparency back lets [us] reevaluate the real value of higher education.”

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College endowments dropped in fiscal year 2022

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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Don Hossler named to Edu Alliance Group Advisory Council

Edu Alliance Journal

He has consulted with more than 50 colleges, universities, and educational organizations including the College Board, Educational Testing Services, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the State of Maryland, and the U.S. Government Accountability Office. He has lived in Russia and has conducted research in postsecondary education there.