Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Supreme Court overturned decades of precedent in prohibiting the use of race as a factor for college admissions, it simply returned us to our societal level. The nation’s oldest private and public universities respectively, both were financed by profits from the enslavement of African-descended people. Here is why this matters.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Schools today vying to win applicants over must toe the line between investing in top-notch student support programs and keeping their degrees affordable all while sustaining long-term economic health. The foundation of its commitment is to provide a modern, robust catalog of student success advisers and alumni engagement opportunities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2023

As colleges struggle to cope with declining enrollment as the influx of federal COVID-19 money dries up, a wave of closures is widely expected. A lot of institutions are coming to us well after they’ve run out of political, financial, and enrollment capital.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 26, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Professor Andrew Comrie reached out after reading my piece, How Do Academic Libraries Spend Their Money? In his book, Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Open Book Publishers, 2021), Andrew digs into academic library budgeting.

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University Business

JULY 28, 2023

He believes community colleges should be considered “elite” for housing under-resourced students. It takes 10 years to instill effective, intentional changes to an institution’s student body makeup, said Josh Garcia, superintendent of Tacoma Public Schools. “They’re at my college.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

The crisis had been partly obscured, he said, by COVID-19 relief funds that had flowed from the federal government during the coronavirus pandemic—money that the university couldn’t count on for long. “Federal money was really masking the fact that we were already underwater,” Bailey said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Some context: completion scholarships are typically small grants of money that colleges or universities will give to students who are nearly finished. The idea is to make sure that students don’t get derailed by finances at the last minute. It’s about how best to support students completing their degrees.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

At a holiday party, just weeks after ChatGPT was released, a team leader for a large networking company’s cybersecurity division told me his team had just used ChatGPT to write thousands of lines of code for a project (in just minutes), saving them hundreds of hours of outside contracting. Those are distinctly human jobs.

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Study and Go Abroad

AUGUST 7, 2023

Compare your options for studying law in Canada, Australia, the UK, and US to discover which option is best for you. Some of the biggest things to remember are law degrees in the UK and Australia are significantly shorter than in Canada and the US, and can be entered directly out of high school.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The organization’s Sprinternship program places students in short-term programs to gain hands-on tech experience in a workplace setting. That drops to 55 percent among women who are first-generation college students, compared to 69 percent of first-gen male students.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 6, 2023

For example, where do venture capitalists (VCs) get the money that they invest? The VC firm takes my money and spreads it around to start-ups that the partners believe are good bets. If they have funds to invest, they may want to slow down and make their money last. How venture funding works. It’s a bit like a mortgage.

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Great College Advice

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Let’s face it: high school in America has become exhausting and unpleasant for many high school students. As a result, more and more students are asking themselves, “should I take a gap year?” Here at Great College Advice , we are huge fans of taking some time off between high school and college. Generally, they will love it.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Community college leaders are largely thrilled about the rise in high school students enrolling in college classes, particularly after steep enrollment declines during the pandemic, and many are hoping the trend continues. The state will cover community college tuition for up to five dual-enrollment courses per high school student.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Since then, the recipient institutions have put their gifts of millions of dollars to use in several ways, seeking to enhance what they offer to the many – and often underprivileged – students that they serve. For us, this was the largest donation that we had ever received. [It]

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

Impatience is destructive; it fractures relationships, makes us rude and petulant, degrades performance, and leads to rash decisions. That high-performing Black and Hispanic students are far less likely to earn a college degree than comparable white or Asian American students. Sustaining intimacy takes work.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Schaaf’s struggle to find decent housing on a graduate student stipend is unusual neither for Vanderbilt’s graduate students nor for graduate students in cities across the United States. This has confused and alarmed students, including Schaaf. ” “We don’t see that money.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Restructuring Higher Education for Today’s Demographic Traditional higher education structures were designed for a different demographic, and they often hinder institutions from adapting to the needs of today’s students. Student-Centric Approach To overcome barriers and enhance enrollment, adopt a student-centric approach.

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EAB

APRIL 18, 2023

Blogs 3 Ways Advancement Teams Can Achieve More with Less Many advancement professionals are all too familiar with this scene: you propose a new plan or innovation to leadership, and the conversation ends with “we don’t have money for that.” The almost inevitable guidance is to better utilize your existing resources.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This broader perspective allows universities to better align with the needs of students and employers. Instead, it should consider fixed points to contain costs, such as IRS guidelines for tax deductions, Pell Grants, and the ideal price of zero that students aim for. This approach ensures a market-driven pricing strategy.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

EAB’s Paul Gunther hosts University of Central Arkansas President Houston Davis for a wide-ranging chat about how to reach students and families who feel that a college degree is out of reach. There may be no other university in the nation that attracts as many students with demonstrated financial need as the University of Central Arkansas.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Among other things, tensions still linger over a decision to cut various athletic teams, a move Oubré described as necessary but that her critics say will have severe repercussions on enrollment given that numerous tuition-paying student athletes are likely to depart. Emphasizing Security or Stifling Criticism?

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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. Which students from every walk of life, regardless of age, income, or life circumstance. But you still need a plan to finance your education. Unlike a loan, you do not have to pay scholarship money back.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Campuses struggling with a student mental health crisis. Tenure I wholeheartedly agree with one headline: “ Tenure threatened in US more by universities than politicians.” The older bargain – that if doctoral students play by the traditional rules, they will get an academic job – has broken down.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

” Louisiana’s laws run counter, too, to the values of NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, which is scheduled to hold its 2025 conference in New Orleans, says Kevin Kruger, its president. The finances of such member organizations can often revolve around good turnout to an annual conference.

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Great College Advice

APRIL 15, 2024

They’ll be able to give you insights into things like finances and careers that you may not have encountered yet. Finances: how to choose a college after being accepted based on the costs It can actually be pretty tricky to figure out how much it will cost you to go to college. That’s money you don’t have to pay back.

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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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Parchment

MARCH 26, 2024

In this episode, we speak with Rob Buelow of Vector Solutions to discuss how universities can better engage students and employers by focusing on “durable skills” that better describe the value of the college experience. So I guess a good place to start would be tell us a little bit about your role and about vector solutions.

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EAB

APRIL 4, 2023

EAB’s Beth Donaldson and David Kuehl discuss how to reach prospective graduate school students who are looking to switch careers and enroll in business programs that may be very different from their undergraduate field of study. EAB · How to Recruit Adult Career Switchers Transcript [music] 0:00:12.7 Welcome to the program, Beth.

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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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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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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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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. Her parents were just too ashamed and afraid to talk about their finances before the young woman went off to college. Student Loan Debt: A Burden Too Big to Ignore. It is anything but.

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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

JUNE 15, 2023

The report is based on data from a survey of nearly 900 US colleges and institutions, who provided information on more than 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty members. Finances are more difficult for those lower on the food chain. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4%

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2023

The original rule was designed to monitor contracted companies that provide colleges and universities with services to manage various aspects of Federal Student Aid. This will require them to deliver detailed information about their finances to the Department.

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