Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Because several minoritized professors are being hired at once, they are less likely to be tokenized and burdened with extra diversity, equity, and inclusion work. And they weren’t looking to just hire one. They were hiring three.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 9, 2025

One of the most complex elements private K-12 schools face is verifying and evaluating international family income, which often differs significantly from domestic documentation standards. For financial aid officers and admissions teams, this can mean lengthy back-and-forth communication, incomplete applications, or inconsistent reporting.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MAY 21, 2025

SSS gives schools live visibility into each application cycle, showing trends and gaps as they emerge. Are updates live as family documents are verified? Leverage Multi-Year Verified Tax Data for Trend Analysis Tip: Prioritize solutions that integrate verified income data from the IRS or tax documents.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Providing more direct support to families filling out applications. Interviewees noted how simplified application processes reported higher satisfaction rates from parents and often saved money through automating menial tasks such as status updates, document access, and personalized support. Removing stigma.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This issue has been well documented by Black scholars throughout the years. Nevertheless, as Dr. Bettina Love asserts to Black students, which is also applicable to Black scholars, let us remember that “Anti-Blackness is not bigger than Blackness. Dr. Adriel A.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MAY 15, 2025

While the fall often brings a flurry of applications, admissions deadlines, and award notifications, the summer months offer breathing rooma perfect opportunity for financial aid directors to host a parent-focused workshop that is proactive, supportive, and deeply informative. Once your goal is set, decide on format.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

California State University offers programs such as Chico’s Gradu- ate Equity Fellowship Program to help students explore whether to pursue a doctorate degree. The students’ volunteer work translating documents for Proyecto Inmigrante has a value of over $100,000 (when compared to what translation services charge).

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Secondarily, schools are seeing an influx of applications from families looking for tuition assistance. While financial aid is essential for keeping private schools diverse and accessible, the administrative workload that comes with processing all these applications can quickly become overwhelming. The good news?

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JANUARY 31, 2025

This underscores the value of the recently announced integration between TaxStatus and VenturEd Solutions which transforms how private schools assess and process financial aid applications. These measures ensure that schools can leverage this powerful tool without compromising the security or privacy of applicants.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 4, 2025

I can remember the countless hours I spent sorting through tax documentation, applications, and spreadsheets I maintained on my own, Dodson shared. Families get a dramatically simplified experience: no document uploads, no manual entry of financial data, and a secure, quick consent process that can be completed in under a minute.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Transparent and Accessible Financial Aid Process: Clear Communication: Provide families with clear and concise information about the financial aid process, including deadlines, required documentation, and eligibility criteria. Simplified Application: Streamline the financial aid application process to minimize the burden on families.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MAY 2, 2025

These new opportunities mean schools must be ready to process increased financial aid applications quickly, equitably, and transparently. Streamline Your Financial Aid Processing Increased funding means increased application volume. Traditional document collection can delay awards and create administrative burdens for families.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 25, 2025

The Challenge: Balancing Accuracy with Efficiency Traditionally, financial aid officers have faced an uphill battle: gathering accurate family income information, verifying documents, and assessing needall while providing personalized guidance to families. Many are new to the process and may feel overwhelmed by the documentation requirements.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

million grant – lasting five years – will go toward what this cadre of faculty and staff are calling the Transformation, Equity, Access, and Sense of Belonging (TEAS) project, which is directly aimed at aiding Asian students at UConn’s regional campus in Hartford.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 5, 2025

Discussions on fostering diversity, equity, and belonging emphasized the importance of inclusive school communities and the impact of policy decisions on student success. Sessions on innovative approaches to financial aid and tuition modeling provided administrators with new strategies to make financial aid more accessible and efficient.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Early communication allows schools to share important information about financial aid eligibility requirements, deadlines, and application processes. Automated Notifications: Automated notifications capabilities for keeping families informed about application deadlines, award decisions, and other important updates.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JUNE 11, 2022

Declutter the excess paper, purge old documents and get your “house” in order. Organize Your Documents. Schools have a lot of information to keep track of — applications, student records, and financial statements from families. If your documents could use some reorganizing, now is the perfect time to do so.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Providing more direct support to families filling out applications. Interviewees noted how simplified application processes reported higher satisfaction rates from parents and often saved money through automating menial tasks such as status updates, document access, and personalized support. Removing stigma.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

million grant – lasting five years – will go toward what this cadre of faculty and staff are calling the Transformation, Equity, Access, and Sense of Belonging (TEAS) project, which is directly aimed at aiding Asian students at UConn’s regional campus in Hartford.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Specifically, the trend of higher-income families needing financial aid, was noted in the NAIS 2023-2024 Trendbook , “The demographics of the applicant pool are changing as more higher-income families apply for aid.” Schools can continue their focus on the families’ needs by making it easier for families to apply for financial aid.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JANUARY 12, 2023

However, because of these factors, other families often think they won’t qualify for financial aid due to their middle-class status, leading to fewer applications. Home equity: The value of the family’s home or property. Expect most families to have some form of savings, equity or retirement accounts.

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NACAC's Admitted

AUGUST 10, 2023

The 2021 task force also noted that simply going test-optional or test-free will not in and of itself universally improve equity. EqRC is studying the implications of equity in admission for historically excluded populations. How were testing policy changes communicated to prospective applicants and counselors?

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EAB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One of Carleton College’s five pledges in its Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity plan is to increase representation of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and other underrepresented groups in staff roles—a commitment their Chief Technology Officer Janet Scannell has taken concrete steps to deliver. stands for Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

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COE

JANUARY 7, 2024

As you will read below, the transition from paper to online applications, along with the platform’s ability to collect all necessary data in one place, has significantly improved efficiency and effectiveness in program management. Initially, we dealt with paper applications, which could be tricky due to errors and missing information.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

LEARN MORE Emblematic of this ambiguity was the Court’s simultaneous assertion that, on the one hand, nothing in the opinion “should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise,” while, on the other, “.universities

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EAB

MAY 1, 2023

This could be as simple as an email or a trip down the hall to their office, or you can create a 1-page overview or FAQ document to advertise the new tool. Case in point In 2021, EAB hosted a focus group for an institution that hoped to understand why the equity dashboard they created wasn’t being utilized.

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EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

IT Strategy Decentralized IT infrastructure, data management, and a patchwork of point integrations across applications and infrastructure put many institutions at risk of serious cybersecurity incidents, while also making it difficult if not impossible to make data-informed decisions.

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EAB

JUNE 27, 2023

As Valerie Martinez, a nursing faculty member at UCF, shared , “Since it's well-documented that health outcomes improve when patients and their families receive care from health professionals who share their racial and ethnic backgrounds, Hispanic nurses can have a great impact on reducing the disparities and working towards health equity.” Marketing (..)

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Teachers can participate in coaching to further their own Giving Tuesday goals of accelerating equity in your district. Features include: Fast application delivery. Easy application monitoring. Speedy document verification. Immediate access to documents. We want to help schools help families.

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COE

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ron Abel empower proved the ideal choice, seamlessly integrating into our workflow and easing the transition from traditional paper applications. Schedule a demo empower ’ s individual student services tracking goes beyond grades and testing, providing insights into financial aid, application status, and other crucial data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The wide-ranging bill, introduced by Senator Jerry Cirino, proposes several substantial changes to Ohio's public universities, including a ban on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, restrictions on faculty strikes, and the introduction of a mandatory civics course.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Another fundamental aspect of this discussion is the need for educators to adopt an anti-racist (social justice or civil rights) and cultural competence approach to their work, which means being equity-based and culturally responsive in philosophy and action. Emerald Publishing Limited.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

It instructed the University to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs under whatever name, and to cease any admissions or hiring practices that consider race, gender, or even proxies for race. The administrations memo targets racial equity work explicitly. Theres no intervention needed.

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