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Department of Education Resumes Federal Student Loan Collections After Four-Year Pause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education announced this week that its Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) will resume collections on defaulted federal student loans beginning Monday, May 5, 2025, ending a pause that has been in effect since March 2020. The book is scheduled to be released in September 2025. million borrowers owing more than $1.6

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Investing in Care to Combat Declining Enrollment in Higher Education

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Similar to institutions nationwide, we saw enrollment plummet during the pandemic, dropping by 20% in 2020-2021. Last year, more than 70% of the graduating seniors in our high schools completed a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, and a Victor Valley application, and 40% enrolled.

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Student Success…. A Definition for the Very Few

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The data shows that, from 2011 through 2020, there was a 39% drop in Black male enrollment in colleges across the United States. Colleges need to review academic schedules for barriers with retention. Are schedules designed with student retention in mind?

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

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Since the racial reckoning of 2020, sparked by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minnesota police officer, many institutions have announced cluster hires of either minoritized faculty or professors who study issues like race and justice. Louis Filmmakers Showcase and is scheduled to screen at the St.

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Fellowship Program Highlights the Work of Disabled Scholar-Activists

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Bowen Cho Beitiks opened fellowship applications in January 2023 to early-career scholar-activists with project proposals related to disability studies or disability justice. Beitiks and three panelists selected the first cohort of 11 fellows — all queer or transgender, mostly people of color — from more than 300 applicants.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Since 2020, almost 60% of Village residents have been Latino and have completed their degree or certificate programs in an average of 3.4 From 2021 to 2024, the percentage of Latinx faculty applicants increased by 15%. years, compared to the collegewide average of 5.2

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Universities Need to Prioritize Educational Investments to Reverse the Great Resignation Trend Among Professors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed a decline in postsecondary instructor employment between May 2020 and May 2021 (1,369,930 versus 1,340,560). institutions down 70% from 2019 to 2020. Guadalupe Vasquez King As a result of these and other factors, professors are fleeing the profession.

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