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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

But what bugs students about college costs isn’t just that it’s expensive; it’s because they rarely understand by how much. And schools got that,” said National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) President Justin Draeger, according to The Washington Post.

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Here are states’ top 10 priorities for higher education in 2024

University Business

However, growing investment needs across state government, coupled with volatile budget surpluses, require higher ed stakeholders to remain incisive with their demands. In the report , SHEEO identified that the majority of states in question this year are working on healthy budgets thanks to a sturdy national economy and robust reserve funds.

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The divestment problem

University Business

Similarly, student calls for their institutions to cut ties with Israel has a storied history. college or university student governments vote on divestment resolutions in the 2014-2015 academic year, Jewish Philanthropy reports. The Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement saw 44 U.S.