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Beyond the Campus Food Pantry

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When a couple of student affairs practitioners created the College and University Food Bank Alliance in 2012, it had just 10 members. Prior to 2015 it was difficult to find much formal acknowledgement of student food insecurity, let alone services to help.

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Arrest of Dreamers Highlights Plight of Undocumented Students

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since 2012. That means 72% of undocumented college students are pursuing their educations without work permits, access to federal financial aid or protection from deportation. “We After a bond hearing on June 18, she was expected to be released. The term Dreamers refers to undocumented individuals brought to the U.S.

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Data-Informed College Decisions: Students Deserve Clear, Consistent, and Complete Financial Aid Offers

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Unfortunately, recent research suggests that many students are not provided clear, concise, and accurate information they need to fully understand the financial implications of the choices they have made. Moreover, schools have resources at their disposal to do so. Moreover, schools have resources at their disposal to do so.

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Pushing to No Longer Keep Meredith College a ‘Best-Kept Secret’

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She enjoys being able to see how budgets function, how admissions and financial aid operate, and how campus security is run. From 2012 to 2018, Meredith also carried out its largest fundraising campaign yet, raising more than $90 million. She enjoys being able to understand how higher ed works beyond just the academic parts. “I

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

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Most people don’t realize that financial aid is a line item in a budget, and it, like everything else, is funded by the same source: tuition,” said Fleming. One of the only mechanisms you have to increase financial aid is to increase tuition. It’s a completely diabolical, upward spiral.

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Report: Adult Community College Students Make Strides

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Students could spend years in sequences of developmental education courses, using limited financial aid awards and personal resources without earning degree- and transfer-applicable credits and delaying enrollment in transfer-level courses— if they did not drop out first,” the brief noted.

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Georgian Court University Boasts Women-Led Majority Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

GCU, located in New Jersey, also has women in other school leadership positions as well, such as director of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; director of career services, the director of financial aid, and the director of global education. The school went co-educational in 2012, but its concern for women remains.