School & Student Services by Community Brands

OCTOBER 31, 2024

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. Satisfaction often came down to how easy it was for parents to fill out documents and pay school expenses.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MAY 21, 2025

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. What to Ask Vendors: Can I view current and projected award totals by income tier?

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Student Privacy Compass

JULY 23, 2024

Updated] Equity, Access, and Reputational Considerations Beyond regulatory compliance, digital fundraising introduces challenges related to equity, access, and public perception. Fundraising Tool Implementation Checklist Planning and Alignment Does the fundraising activity align with the district’s mission, values, and equity goals?

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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

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. These may include foreign tax returns (in different languages or formats), employer statements, apostilled documents, or bank records.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JANUARY 31, 2025

Enhanced Accuracy and Efficiency Traditionally, the financial aid process involves extensive paperwork, manual uploads of tax documents, and repeated follow-ups between families and school administrators. Enhanced Equity : Schools can ensure that aid is awarded fairly and consistently, supporting broader goals of accessibility and inclusion.

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Civitas Learning

JANUARY 9, 2025

However, coordinating care becomes challenging when information is siloed, documentation methods vary, and processes are not aligned. Coordinate Care with a Unified Student Support Approach Improving student outcomes requires a coordinated student success network, where guidance and support extend beyond just the advising team.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2025

Shaun Harper In a powerful defense of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education, Dr. Shaun Harper, Provost Professor of Education, Public Policy, and Business at the University of Southern California, presented evidence-based testimony before the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

According to court documents, the administration's Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism issued a demand letter on April 3 outlining "immediate next steps" Harvard must take to maintain its "financial relationship with the United States government." The legal action, filed Friday, seeks to block the administration from withholding $8.7

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MAY 15, 2025

For example: This workshop will walk families through the steps of applying for financial aid, explain how awards are determined, and answer live questions about timelines and documentation. Once your goal is set, decide on format. Shownot just tellwhat families will need to do.

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Catherine Cronin

JANUARY 11, 2025

But returning to speak about open educational practices for good with scholars and librarians who are leading work in open education for equity and antiracism that was a future I could never have dreamt. This drew on GTM and team members’ expertise as well as principles of data feminism (DIgnazio & Klein, 2020 ).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

First, lets look at how we define, value and seek equity. What became lightening-rod terms, diversity, equity and inclusion in reality constitute neither a policy nor an ideology; they are a way of life that, when intentional and outcome-oriented, change lives in meaningful, measurable ways. So, whats still missing?

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2025

While the initial response was robust with corporations, higher education institutions, philanthropy, and nonprofits pledging billions to confront systemic racism the report documents how commitments have significantly eroded.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MAY 2, 2025

Make Equity a Cornerstone of Your Process School choice funding will bring a wider range of applicantsincluding many first-time private school families. Traditional document collection can delay awards and create administrative burdens for families. Schools must move quickly to process financial aid awards without compromising quality.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 1, 2025

For schools that want to strengthen family relationships and reinforce their values of equity and access, building trust into the financial aid process isnt optionalits essential. If your school is looking to improve its financial aid process, increase equity, and better support your community, The Peddie Schools journey is full of insight.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2025

Trump's directive to eliminate materials considered to advance diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. It seems as though the Naval Academy, as with so many other institutions from K-12 schools to colleges is capitulating to the current erasure of equity and inclusion, even in their libraries," Wise told Diverse.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Some of the biggest challenges schools face include: Administrative Overload: Manually reviewing applications, verifying financial documents, and answering questions from families takes a lot of time and effort. Compliance and Documentation: Schools must keep accurate records to ensure they comply with financial aid policies and audits.

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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

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

DECEMBER 17, 2024

One year in, a new report titled, "Under Siege: Campus Racial Climates in Texas Higher Education Amid Anti-DEI Legislation examines how a controversial bill which prohibits diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) activities, has impacted college campuses across the Lone Star state. Dr. Liliana M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Trump's executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, delivering a significant blow to the administrations efforts to curtail such initiatives in federal contracting and higher education. A federal judge has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against President Donald J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2025

Systemic equity gaps and disparities continue to persist across demographic groups, particularly impacting our most vulnerable students. As a leading figure within the Black Prophetic Tradition, King understood that a nation rooted in systemic injustice, economic inequity, and racial oppression is inherently sick.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2025

The report also examined salary equity by gender, finding persistent disparities. The gender salary-equity ratio was lowest (87.2) The report documented continuing changes in the academic workforce composition. By institutional control, nominal average salaries for full-time faculty members increased 3.9 percent in fall 1987.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2025

This informs the concept of athletic equity. Though major progress has been made since the enactment of this law, questions remain as to what equity looks like in athletics (Jensen, 2022). The NJCAA head coaches’ opinions about athletic equity initially focused on facilities, scholarships, and travel provided for teams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The decision comes at a time when universities nationwide are struggling to balance competitive athletics programs with federal equity requirements. Some universities have established specific protocols for distributing NIL opportunities and monitoring gender equity in athletic compensation, which may now need to be reevaluated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2025

Steeped in the revolutionary language of our countrys founding documents, both Harvards letter and Stanfords response speak to notions of the public good but mount a defense only of private institutions. Her current research concerns access, equity, and empathy in public higher education today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Marybeth Gasman is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and the Associate Dean of Research in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University, where she also leads the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity & Justice and the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

Two years after a scathing report on gender equity issues, the NCAA commissioned an external, independent review of its progress at championships. “A A continued commitment to equity must be at the center of everything in college sports,” said National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Charlie Baker.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. Many of the historical documentation that takes place in the city surrounds the lead up to-and the aftermath of the assassination of Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

The power of collaboration and the importance of building paths for others to follow were topics , front and center , during the 2024 White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence. The alliance launched in 2022 at the first White House Summit on STEMM Equity and Excellence. And we just can't let more time go by.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

These organizations provide membership and community for qualitative and quantitative researchers, and WIM focuses on improving gender and racial equity within the field. The report also studied how diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and anti-discrimination is perceived in the workplace. Dr. Susan Lyons, executive director of WIM.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We present the problems/solutions as an easily accessible 10-point checklist, so that you can grade your own processes, identify your challenges, and proactively incorporate de-biasing practices in the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Committee members often arrive unprepared. The tenure process is a social and political process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2023–24 , highlights trends in faculty compensation, tenure and contingency, pay equity, and institutional finances in higher education. Its findings come from AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

Ellen Chaffee “The value of diverse perspectives for teams and for-profit boards is well-documented, and we recognize that governing boards need new and varied voices to overcome the myriad challenges facing higher education right now,” said Lesley McBain, the association’s director of research.

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