Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It's commonly known that US student loan debt is now about more than $1.7 trillion and that more than 44 million Americans are laden with this debt. It's also known that student debt is not a problem for everyone who goes to college or everyone who takes out loans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Each June, I eagerly await its release and subsequently use it to direct my fundraising strategy for the ensuing year. Forging Ahead: Strategies and Ideas to Consider Individual donors are all around us. Strategic engagement with these donors will give institutions a leg-up. Are You Ready?

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Podcast How UCA is Creating a Debt-Free Pathway to a College Degree Episode 173. You can join the conversation on social media using #EABOfficeHours. They examine UCA’s innovative new program that creates a debt-free pathway to a college degree for all incoming Arkansas freshmen who qualify based on financial need.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The current venture funding market conditions proved too difficult for us to raise the money that we needed. Our employees are departing with a couple of us continuing on part-time on a volunteer basis to ensure continuity of support for our customers through this transition.

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In July 2022, 2U announced layoffs as it changed its business model (again) and the US Department of Education scrutinized the company's grad school offerings closer. Credentials that frequently are not worth the debt. In April, 2U filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Education to avoid further government oversight.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This long-standing practice worked when large pools of eligible students existed, thus providing adequate financial resources. Therefore, the most effective use of campus facilities will result from the careful coordination of programmatic and space changes. Some of those efforts have been successful and others haven’t.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

I was a full Pell recipient when I was an undergraduate student at Michigan State University in the mid- to late 1980s. I was fortunate that I did not have to take out any student loans while I was at MSU. ” He reminds us that our public colleges and universities in the U.S. serve close to 80 percent of college students.

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College Scholarships

MARCH 19, 2021

We all know that education is not cheap and not many of us have large amounts of money at our fingertips. After all, your decision to obtain your degree is more than likely made with moving forward, not placing yourself in large amounts of debt. Unlike a loan, you do not have to pay scholarship money back. Academic merit.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

When a student from any of these community colleges applies to Franklin University, the system can instantly inform them about the transferability of their courses into their desired degree program. These agreements are not just on paper; they are integrated into a sophisticated technological system.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 2, 2023

However, with the impending demographic cliff due to declining birth rates during the Great Recession, there are not as many traditional college-age students (18-24) as there were in the past. Looking at the demographics of college graduates, only 40% of the US population have a college degree. Thomas in St.

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EAB

APRIL 13, 2023

And graduate students are taking complex, non-linear, and stealth journeys to enrollment. In order to reach and enroll these students and achieve graduate growth, graduate enrollment leaders must devote time, money, and planning to these programs. While priorities haven’t changed, enrollment targets have increased.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 25, 2022

President Biden has just announced the cancelation of $10,000 in student loan debt for Americans making less than $125,000 per year. He also intends to cancel another $10,000 in debt for recipients of Pell Grants, thereby helping those who have come from the lower rungs of the economic ladder. Ho, ho, ho! College Is Expensive.

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Creatrix Campus

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Top Strategies for Improving Student Retention in Higher Education admin Fri, 12/23/2022 - 05:27 It is the rule of Gen Z now. Student Retention is picking up like haywire. The main blowgun to combat this issue would be to walk along with the students, providing help whenever needed.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

The types of prospective students higher ed needs to target. Public RSIs are more dependent on state appropriations but receive fewer appropriations per student because state funding metrics focus on enrollment growth, which is more constrained. How board members should be appointed. But they must stay proactive and transparent.

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Great College Advice

APRIL 15, 2024

How much money will you need to keep yourself alive during those times? That’s money you don’t have to pay back. Other types of aid listed on this letter might include student loans. Be careful: while student loans can be a good and necessary way of financing your education, they are not really aid.

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Study Aborad Association

JANUARY 8, 2020

This article highlights concrete steps colleges and universities can take to support and encourage their budding student entrepreneurs. This is something you – as a college administrator or professor – can actively help your students achieve with some concrete steps and college support. Create a Student Entrepreneur Hub.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 24, 2022

Some argue that the high tuition cost of Harvard and other high-priced colleges isn’t worth the money. Clearly, an elite, private education is a lot of money. But the argument that it’s a waste of money is impossible to refute. Other skills a student develops beyond the major (e.g., And half make less.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A group of students at Spelman College are receiving a rare opportunity to start an investment journey through a new social impact initiative. The financial wellness initiative will offer a cohort of students a finance and investing course plus a seeded Stackwell account to begin building wealth during their college career.

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EAB

APRIL 25, 2023

And if you think the issues that they worry about, things like deferred maintenance, making campus buildings greener, and optimizing space utilization, aren't relevant to your work, allow us to dis-abuse you of that notion. Give these folks to listen and enjoy. music] 0:00:46.0 Michael Fischer: Hello, and welcome to EAB's Office Hours.

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Parchment

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Marc Booker, Vice Provost of Strategy for the University of Phoenix joins us to discuss how institutions can adopt a culture of credit mobility by incorporating credit-for-prior-learning (CPL) and prior learning assessments (PLA) during the admissions process. And in certain cases, we can learn from our students as well.

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EAB

MAY 9, 2023

Reporter Jon Marcus joins EAB’s Tara Zirkel to explore the root causes behind steep enrollment declines and poor student outcomes at community colleges. The number of students at community colleges has fallen 37% since 2010, or by nearly 2.6 At 31 community colleges, more than half of their students are high school students.

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Robert Kelchen

JUNE 9, 2022

Although a recession probably would result in an increase in enrollment across higher education, that is not the reason why any of us want to see enrollment increase. Much of the higher education policy discussion over the last two years has been dominated by the issue of student debt forgiveness as payment pauses continue.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Inside Higher Ed spoke with three financial aid professionals about their best strategies to strengthen this area for students. Mike Runiewicz, assistant vice provost and director of student financial services at Washington University in St. Students also disproportionately use their financial aid offices based on their class year.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Blogs Your student loan payments are due: 3 strategies to support community college students’ financial wellness When I think back to my time in college, student loans were something that nearly everyone had, but not something any of us fully understood. Financial hardship is the #1 reason students stop out.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

The article is an intermittently hopeful and damning portrayal of community colleges failing to do the sorts of things that would help students graduate. The piece includes some eyebrow-raising quotes from respected figures in the field, as well as some heartbreaking stories of students who fell through the cracks.

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EAB

AUGUST 29, 2023

The two discuss the growth of the non-consumption market, the challenges of recruiting Gen P students—those heavily impacted by the pandemic—as well as unexpected impacts from the recent Supreme Court ruling on ways that colleges engage with prospective students. There's a lot to unpack here, so give these folks a listen and enjoy.

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Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

There are many stories to be told about students of color in college, and as I wrote in a column for Inside Higher Ed, finances are often the main issue for these students. When I started at Stanford in 1983, there were no special programs for first-generation students , and I didn’t know much about how to pay my bills.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Kothari was a Professor of Accounting at the University of Rochester during my brief stint as an English graduate student there. First, he was interested in designing software to teach students accounting. Community colleges accept the top 100% of students who apply. Beyond that, two things stuck with me about S.

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eLiterate

JULY 10, 2023

With changes like major demographic student switches, huge swathes of the economy being reconfigured, and profoundly impactful technologies popping up seemingly out of nowhere, companies need time to plan and implement appropriately significant responses. We have a handful of data points and endless surveys of student and work attitudes.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Last month President Biden announced that he will be using executive action to implement a broad student loan forgiveness initiative that will wipe out $10,000 in federal student loan debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 per year (or $250,000 per year if they are married). It's worth noting that the U.S.

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Parchment

MARCH 12, 2024

If someone’s never heard the term stackable credentials, give us the skinny, like what are they? One, that some students choose not to go when they could really benefit from going. Or maybe it means, maybe they don’t have the money or the time or the interest to sit in college for an additional four years.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The two discuss ways to forge better partnerships with CBOs by understanding the role they play in helping students overcome obstacles when applying to colleges. And can you tell us a little bit about your organization and the role that you play? Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Office Hours With EAB. Jordan, welcome.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

With a background rich in guiding higher education institutions through periods of disruption, Dr. Khoury’s tenure at Unity is marked by a significant increase in enrollment, substantial budget growth, a halving of tuition fees, and significant debt reduction—all achieved amid the challenges posed by the pandemic.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Graduates and former students at South University and the Art Institutes are struggling even more, with only about ten percent making progress with their student loans. Yet two years later, in 2019, the US Department of Education allowed the Colbeck Foundation to acquire South and Ai.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The institutions of government in the US have been formed through battles along lines of race and class. At least in this case the measure is straightforward: after a few years, either students’ voting rates went up or they didn’t. Have students learn to express themselves politically. After that, he was in.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 12, 2023

New to the board are Anita Martinez, former head of the American Federation of Teachers 2121, the faculty union; Susan Solomon, former leader of the San Francisco Unified School District teachers’ union; and Vick Chung, former City College student trustee. “The potential is there to have more students,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Student debt in the United States is a heavily racialized issue. Minoritized students borrow more money and have a harder time repaying it. More than half of Black students have student debt balances that exceed their net worth, and nearly half owe more money than they initially borrowed four years after their graduation.

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