Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror for a reason. – Jelly Roll Alone for 23 hours a day in solitary confinement as part of his 10.5-year prison sentence, Cordero Holmes could not see his future as a great dad, Honors College student, or recipient of the MLK Living the Dream Award for community service in his old neighborhood. In fact, he viewed solitary as a hallmark of his success.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 16, 2024

How do geography, institutional practices, and student characteristics influence earnings after college? IHEP’s Equitable Value Explorer , an interactive data visualization tool that compares post-college earnings across more than 4,000 colleges and universities, is helping researchers answer that question. Using a series of economic thresholds developed by the Postsecondary Value Commission, the tool measures the financial return institutions provide to students.

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Counselors' Corner

OCTOBER 16, 2024

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. Seniors, it's the first month of school, and seniors are already in the doldrums. That glow of the first day of senior year is a million miles away, buried under layers of college essay drafts, emails to the teachers writing your college letters, and four failed attempts to remember your school's CEEB code. One college application is in, two more are stalled, and it seems like all you can do now is wait for something to change.

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COE

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Data’s Role in Shaping Education Policy Highlighted at COE Conference October 16, 2024 — by Terrance L. Hamm Pictured left to right: Aaron Brown, Executive Vice President of COE; Roberto Rodriguez, Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Education; and Stephanie Miller, Vice President of Data and Impact at Axim Collaborative.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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College Aid Services

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Federal Student Aid has released volumes of the 2025-26 FAFSA Specifications Guide. The volumes contained in this guide contain FAFSA Processing System (FPS) technical information for the 2025-26 award year and are only available as PDF documents at this time. Update on October 16, 2024: FSA has published Volume 8 – Agency Matches. This volume… More » 2025–26 FAFSA Specifications Guide (October 2024 Update #3) The post 2025–26 FAFSA Specifications Guide (October 2024 Update #3) first appe

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The National Association of Independent Schools found over the course of the 2022-23 school year that 43 percent of students at boarding schools received financial aid , and at day schools that number was 24 percent. With so many students taking advantage of additional financial resources, schools stand to strengthen connections with families through the right strategies and support.

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HEAG

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Effective during the 2024-25 award year, the FAFSA Simplification Act introduced significant updates to the terminology and definitions around what constitutes as financial aid. One of the notable changes is the renaming of “Estimated Financial Assistance” (EFA) to “Other Financial … Read more ».

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A record-high 78% of 2024 high school graduates took the ACT during school hours through state- and district-sponsored programs, according to new data released by ACT earlier this week. This marks a record participation rate for the ACT School-Day Testing program, which allows students to take the college entrance exam at no cost. “We are really pleased that we saw a record number of students testing through school-day testing, which means they tested and received a college reportable score at n

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COE

OCTOBER 16, 2024

New Report from Pell Institute Reveals How Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Students Perceive the Value of College Degrees October 16, 2024 — by Terrance L. Hamm Regardless of race, ethnicity, or institutional type, 80% of students surveyed believed that their financial commitment was worthwhile in the long run. WASHINGTON, D.C.– A new report from the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, the research arm of the Council for Opportunity in Education (COE), titled “Is

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