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Contributors Without SSNs Gain FAFSA Access, Webinar Training Scheduled for May 3

College Aid Services

Users without a Social Security Number (SSN) will have access to the 2024-25 FAFSA thanks to a series of changes that the Department has recently implemented to address the ongoing issues for this population.

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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Under the University of Vermont’s (UVM) new open-access academic press, authors and readers will not have to pay fees to publish or access published materials. Entwined in UVM Press’s diamond open-access model is a sentiment of shared responsibilities and a commitment not to profit, according to its website.

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Address 3 Common Course Schedule Planning Challenges with Actionable Analytics

Civitas Learning

Higher education leaders strive to create a course schedule that is both efficient to build and easy for students to enroll in necessary courses. Despite this intention, course schedule planning is often a reactive process that can lead to increased workloads for staff and frustration for students during active registration periods.

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Early Lift in Persistence After Adopting Integrated Academic Planning and Student Scheduling

Civitas Learning

The Strategy: Implement an end-to-end planning, scheduling, and registration system to make it easy for students to receive guidance and find the classes they need to complete their degree. Additionally, advisors and the registrar’s team invested significant time manually preloading students’ schedules before new student orientation.

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To Improve College Access

Counselors' Corner

As we return to our students, and during a time when the world is focused on goal setting, what better time to look at our profession and consider the big-picture changes that would improve college access. Their response was somewhere in the neighborhood of $35,000, when, in fact, the average at that time was around $12,500.

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Report: Degree Completion Rate Tied to Number of Credits Taken Per Year

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The number of academic credits a student takes per year has ties to their likelihood to graduate and complete their college journey, a new report from course scheduling company Ad Astra found. Siloes in the schedule build often lead to unintended barriers to student progression. It analyzed data about 1.3

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Today’s College Students Aren’t Who You Think They Are. Institutions Must Rethink How They Serve Them.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A college education gave Aracely Bahenat access to a career in health care that enabled her to provide a better life for her three sons and escape violent domestic abuse. Faculty and staff must work to center their schedules around the learner, not vice versa. Julie Peller is the executive director of Higher Learning Advocates.