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Report: 13% of Title IV Aid-Receiving Students from Community Colleges Earn Bachelor's Degree Within Eight Years

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Only over a tenth of students receiving Title IV aid (13%) who start at community colleges ultimately earn bachelor’s degrees within eight years, according to a U.S. Department of Education (ED) report. Both two- and four-year institutions play a key role in determining this overall state transfer performance,” the authors wrote.

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Ellucian Foundation to Award Grants to 25 Two-Year Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

public two-year institutions eligible to participate in the Federal Title IV Student aid programs and two-year public minority-serving institutions (MSIs) were encouraged to apply. Two-year public colleges are at the heart of the U.S.

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New Data Reveal More Must Be Done for Equity in Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

college, university, and technical and vocational institutions eligible to participate in any of the Title IV federal student financial aid programs. The National Center for Education Statistics has released data from its Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) published Dec. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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Anti-DEI and the Future of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title IV of the HEA was designed “to strengthen the education resources of our colleges and universities and to provide financial assistance for students in postsecondary and higher education.” government dispersed more than $91 million in Title IV funds in 2021.

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Building Pipelines for a Better Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The overall enrollment nationwide at Title IV institutions (schools that process federal financial aid) is 8% Hispanic males and 5% Black males. “The violence and anti-intellectual culture permeating our urban centers must stop,” an angry Jean wrote in an op-ed that appeared in a local New Jersey newspaper shortly after Cuadra’s death.

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How Net Price Calculators Can Better Serve Students

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To help address this problem, beginning in 2011, federal legislation required that all Title IV participating institutions – those receiving federal student aid funds – add a Net Price Calculator (NPC) to their websites. All of these proposed steps are in the right direction.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Being unaccredited meant students could not access Title IV federal student aid, and the college did not receive any ARP funds. As of April, Morris Brown College, a private HBCU institution in Atlanta, was fully reaccredited after 20 years. This article appeared in the December 8, 2022 edition of Diverse.