Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Details Trickle Out About $50 Million FAFSA Support Fund Katherine Knott Thu, 02/15/2024 - 03:00 AM The money comes from a fund designated to pay off insurance claims and refund payments to borrowers, though the education secretary can authorize other uses. Byline(s) Katherine Knott

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 5, 2024

California Offers Stipends to Financially Vulnerable Community College Students kathryn.palmer… Tue, 03/05/2024 - 03:00 AM A new pilot program gives students who were formerly incarcerated or in the foster care system, and some low-income parents, money to help pay their living costs. Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

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Ray Schroeder

APRIL 13, 2024

Bloomberg said she plans to ask the board for $9 million to pay for those buyouts. That money would come from a one-time draw from the institution’s reserves, she said at a faculty senate meeting Wednesday, April 3. Implementing these voluntary separation incentive programs, she said, will help save more money over time.

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Robert Kelchen

APRIL 29, 2024

There are two levels of scrutiny: HCM1 requires additional oversight, while the more severe HCM2 requires colleges to pay out money to students before being reimbursed by Federal Student Aid. HCM places colleges’ federal financial aid disbursements under additional scrutiny in order to protect taxpayer dollars.

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Great College Advice

JULY 21, 2023

And we’ll talk about merit aid because merit aid is the money you get because you’re a good student. So, that means that 43% are paying $41,000, okay? Okay, so, 43% are paying full price and 13% are getting some sort of academic scholarship for their high school labor. But let’s talk about financial aid.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s about paying forward the good grace he received throughout his own career. And I want to make sure I pay it forward to young people.” Per the advice of a mentor, he picked being travel coordinator over academic adviser at GSU to get a better understanding of budgets and money and to have more doors in the sports world open to him.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

The Australia Institute report, released on Wednesday, questioned if more public money should be used for research and education instead of being directed to international academic publishers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

The money will pay for financial literacy efforts and "providing a practical model for economic empowerment,” per a press release. Combs’ checkbook had a busy weekend. The Bad Boy CEO also announced a $1 million investment fund in partnership with Earn Your Leisure, an entrepreneurship-focused media platform.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

Unless one has a substantial intergenerational wealth transfer like someone gifting them with housing, a down payment, inheritance, investments, or money that is in addition to their own earned income, then it is extremely difficult in most major metro areas to financially support a family on a teacher’s salary.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Ko estimates that the money from Google will allow the program to run for another five years, with additional funding from the National Science Foundation and the university funding another five. She is collaborating with faculty from other universities, around five of which she hopes will soon start similar programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Both non-enrolled respondents and high school juniors and seniors cited similar financial benefits as the core reasons to get a college degree, such as career advancement and making money. Uncertainty has a prominent presence in the college journeys for both demographics, according to the report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Though she ultimately said that she found the pursuit worthwhile – she spoke about the flexibility that becoming university faculty can give her – she advised those looking to attend grad school to negotiate for higher pay. you are committing to five years of chronic underpayment and financial instability,” Rheem said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

To do that right, it does actually cost money.” We know in New York City how to help students graduate—pay for their books, give them a Metro Card (used on public transportation) so they don’t have to pay for the subway or bus, and give them really good advising so they know what courses they should be taking,” she added. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

Martin Van Der Werf The report, Small Towns, Big Opportunities , categorizes what constitutes a “good job” as a one that pays a minimum of – in 2022 dollars – approximately $43,000 for workers ages 25 to 44 and a minimum of approximately $55,000 for workers ages 45 to 64. White workers comprise the majority of the rural U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Akré raised her hand and described some of the decisions that people in that position have to make—like whether to pay for insurance or whether to pay for gasoline or a cell phone bill. Akré has not yet decided what she will do with the money, but researching marginalized groups is at the top of her list.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Didactic instruction can be offered virtually, with asynchronous options, to eliminate the barrier of travel time and gas money to come for a campus lecture. Finally, finances are the number one reason why students drop out of college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The universal nature of the public option would go along way towards addressing these issues and would remove current income thresholds that too often leave the working and middle class making just enough money to not qualify for support and not enough money to pay for needed early learning services for their children that would put them on track towards (..)

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University Business

MAY 9, 2024

Nathan Reyes lives with his family five minutes from Cal State Los Angeles, where he’s paying close to nothing to earn a bachelor’s degree that typically lands graduates a salary of $62,000 within five years of completing college.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 31, 2024

University administrators explained the increase as a shifting of the university's cost burdens — paying off debts — from the end of the year to the beginning. It was paid for at the start, they said, with money available through a federal higher education aid relief fund passed as part of larger COVID relief bills.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 1, 2023

Money talks. If children of Black alumni get the same preference as kids of White or Asian alumni, then it may be more difficult for SCOTUS to consider this a discriminatory policy except on the issue of ability to pay. Rather, they are paying for access to the elite of America. The rich have more access. This is no surprise.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

One of the primary things about this program is that I didn't want to just bring money into different areas. A whole society pays for this serious issue over a lifetime as dropouts are more likely to be incarcerated and non-productive members of society and greatly negatively impacts the economics.” He also stressed that the U.S.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Colleges and universities remain frequent victims of ransomware and other attacks, those attacks are increasingly costly and disruptive, and cyber insurance providers are paying out more money more often in response to these breaches.

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University Business

APRIL 5, 2024

At the most nefarious level, scammers use the identity of other unsuspecting persons to collect financial aid money. The San Diego Community College District is still reeling after discovering it was paying out over $100,000 in fraudulent claims in 2021, Faculty Focus reports.

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Great College Advice

JANUARY 16, 2024

Money and rankings. It’s all about the money Let’s take the bottom line first. Each matriculating student comes with money. Some come with a lot: the students who will pay the full cost of attendance. Of course, if your family can pay full price for tuition, your chances are perhaps a little bit better.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

They had money from Train for Jobs SA (TFJSA), a city-funded pandemic-era program to help unemployed or underemployed San Antonio residents retrain for high-demand careers. Students were paid a $15 per hour stipend for their training, and CHCP covered any gaps with grant money. Nine of them were female, and nine were over 25.

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University Business

JANUARY 5, 2024

don’t necessarily pay their presidents the most. Both his base pay and total compensation exceed that of other private college presidents. The post How much money do college and university presidents make? The most selective schools in the U.S. million in 2020, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Sho maker emphasized pay. Citing CUPA-HR research that found that more than ¾ of higher ed workers a re seeking or are likely to seek new work for better money, he s uggested that universities need to figure out what fair wages look like and to pay them. This, he argued, would result in financial savings in the long run.

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University Business

AUGUST 23, 2023

Since the passing of California’s Fair Pay to Play Act in 2019 that allowed college athletes to receive monetary compensation on behalf of their names, images and likenesses (NIL), states were quick to begin considering similar legislation of their own. “ I don’t really blame them. . “ I don’t really blame them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

The reason comes down to money. It doesn’t change the fact that they still actually have to pay for college,” said Odle. “It It doesn’t really mean a lot if you’ve been directly admitted but you then can’t pay $10,000 a year to enroll.” Direct admissions] doesn’t change the fact that they need to fill out the FAFSA.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

These students also received regular dental care and were more likely to reduce medication use or delay mental, physical, or dental health care to save money. The research found that college students with loans had significantly worse self-reported physical and mental health and more major medical issues.

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University Business

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Last year California lawmakers agreed to expand the Cal Grant, financial aid for low-income students next spring, but only if there’s enough money in the state budget. If dollars are scarce, some advocates say the state should pull money from a new scholarship partly for middle class students to pay for more aid to students of lesser means.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JULY 17, 2023

He explained: I think it’s important that the system is also fair for taxpayers, because ultimately as taxpayers that fund the system – and we’ve got a situation at the moment where around half of people who go to university don’t end up paying back the cost of that degree – that costs the taxpayer money. Continue reading.

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CAPD

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Boston Women’s Workforce Council in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement hosts talks throughout the year on pay equity. The webinar talks about saving and investing money from a women’s perspective including how are values and what women are taught effects their money decisions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 22, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation How do academic libraries spend their money? Do library leaders trade off between layoffs / replacing retiring library lines against cutting back on paying for databases, journals, and collections? A question I have in looking at this figure is to wonder where the money goes inside these big categories.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, many are “pay to play,” requiring significant investments of time, money, and resources from an early age, from music lessons to travel sports. These students often have less opportunity to try (and pay for) extracurriculars. At surface level, activities seem like a way to level the playing field.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Let’s be real: it costs significant money and time to address this problem, and most community colleges lack both. That’s why researchers at Ithaka S&R found that three in four community college provosts rate student physical and mental health as critical to student success.

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Great College Advice

JUNE 22, 2023

Both the admissions and financial aid offices start the process with an annual budget –an amount of money that can be used for financial aid Some of this budget is “hard” money (interest income from endowed scholarships), but the overwhelming majority of financial aid is given in the form of discounts off the price of tuition.

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