Active Minds

JANUARY 22, 2024

The new year brings intentions of resetting, creating goals, and making the most of this fresh start. Often, we find ourselves adopting new habits, exploring unfamiliar routines, and working towards the “best” version of ourselves. However, this exciting time of renewal and change can often come with heightened expectations. It’s easy to get consumed with ideas of perfection and progress while consistently placing pressure on ourselves.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2024

Doctoral candidates Dion T. Harry and Joshua D. Wallace have been chosen to receive the Dr. Melvin C. Terrell (MCT) Educational Foundation’s 2023 MCT Scholarship. The annual scholarship is meant for matriculating students in master’s or doctoral programs in student affairs or higher ed administration-related fields. Dion Harry Harry is a North Carolina State University doctoral candidate studying higher education opportunity, equity, and justice.

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Active Minds

JANUARY 8, 2024

The clinical definition of well-being comprises four components: the individual realizes their abilities, can cope with the everyday stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and can contribute to their community. Simple, right? If only. In my one and half years as a college student, I have learned the importance of stress management , which directly connects to mental wellness.

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College Aid Consulting Services

JANUARY 12, 2024

I created this CSS Profile: A Comprehensive Guide as a financial aid consultant with over 34 years of experience to help you. I have dedicated my career to helping families navigate the complex world of college financial aid. In this comprehensive guide, I will provide expert insights to help you understand the CSS Profile. My goal is to ensure that your child receives the maximum financial aid possible.

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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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Student Loan Planner

JANUARY 5, 2024

Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) is one of the most popular federal student loan forgiveness programs, and it has been in the news a lot during the last two years. Historically, PSLF has been beset by widespread, well-documented problems, including poor loan servicing practices, bad record-keeping and inadequate oversight by the Department of Education.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JANUARY 9, 2024

By: Genevieve Garcia Kendrick and Kim Dancy While scope and design vary across states, one thing has become increasingly clear: f ree college programs are an important policy lever to increase affordability and expand the delivery of postsecondary value. T wo programs in New Mexico and Arizona demonstrate promising approaches to us ing state resources to help students afford college and ultimately ensure they receive an economic return on their investment in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2024

President Claudine Gay’s resignation is a thunderclap echoing from the halls of Harvard, leaving a bitter taste of injustice and a deafening silence from those who should be howling in outrage. The president, the first Black woman to lead the institution, stands cast aside, not by her own hand, but by the very forces Harvard claims to oppose: prejudice, cowardice, and a grotesque disregard for basic fairness.

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Steve Keating

JANUARY 7, 2024

One of the least productive things we can do is to do something tomorrow that we should have done today. Some people call that procrastinating. I call it a waste. Not only did we likely waste time yesterday when we should have been doing what we finally did today, but we’re very possibly not doing what we should have been doing today because of it. Procrastinating is one of life’s great stress creators.

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College Aid Consulting Services

JANUARY 5, 2024

Navigating Financial Aid at the 20 Most Searched Colleges and Universities. Choosing a college is a significant decision, and understanding the financial aid options available can be just as crucial as selecting a major. With the rising cost of higher education, many students and their families are concerned about affordability. As a financial aid consultant, I’ve noticed a trend in the most searched colleges and universities—an indication of where students hope to invest their futures.

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Student Minds

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Editorial Team are here to kickstart 2024 with their mental health 'ins and outs'. - Student Minds Blog Editorial Team ⭐ Our 'ins and outs' for 2024 ⭐ ? Taylor: My favourite quote of all time is from Kris Jenner who says, "If somebody says 'no', you're asking the wrong person". 2024 is going to be the year of finding out who I am and ticking so many things off the bucket list.

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Counseling Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Imposter syndrome can hold some counselors back, which is why it’s important to learn to recognize and manage it. The post The Fraud Factor appeared first on Counseling Today.

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Patter by Pat Thomson

JANUARY 21, 2024

Imagine you’ve gone out to café and you ask for a salad. What arrives is a chopping board, a knife, a bowl, a lettuce, a tomato, a carrot, a bundle of random herbs, a mystery fruit and sundry bottles and jars. You are surprised. This wasn’t what you were expecting. And you really don’t know what the chef intends that you do with these things. You can see some of it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

For over 150 years, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have not only been sites of academic excellence but also powerful economic engines in their local and regional communities, leaving a lasting mark on the nation's landscape. Beyond classrooms and campuses, the impact of HBCUs resonates in various economic and community development initiatives that transcend traditional education boundaries, fostering job growth, workforce development, and training opportunities.

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Steve Keating

JANUARY 4, 2024

Some people don’t like admitting a mistake. It might even be that MOST people don’t like admitting them. Some people dislike admitting a mistake so much that they will deny them, even to the point of lying or placing the blame on someone else. What they fail to realize is that by not accepting responsibility for a mistake they give up the opportunity to learn from it.

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Ed.gov Homeroom

JANUARY 26, 2024

By: Roberto Rodriguez, Assistant Secretary of the Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development. If you need suicide or mental health-related crisis support, or are worried about someone else, please call or text 988 or visit the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s chat to connect with a trained crisis counselor. The need for mental Continue Reading The post We Want to Hear From You: Supporting Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Needs in Higher Education appeared first on

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Student Minds

JANUARY 13, 2024

Chrissie shares her experience of managing the winter blues and tips for getting through this alongside doing a PhD. - Chrissie Life as a PhD student can bring its own unique benefits and challenges. We get to pursue our own intellectual curiosities and benefit from flexible working hours. But doing a PhD also means working alone, juggling lots of responsibilities, and managing the stresses of a demanding degree.

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Counseling Today

JANUARY 25, 2024

Rick Balkin inspires and educates future and current counselors through his contributions on practicing forgiveness and working with teenagers in crisis. The post Destined for Counseling appeared first on Counseling Today.

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Counselors' Corner

JANUARY 17, 2024

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. Dear Students: You may remember I encouraged you in 11 th grade to start meeting with your parents once a week for 20 minutes to discuss life after high school. This is the best way to keep your parents in the loop, while still staying in charge of your own future. Since then, of course, your plans have nicely taken shape, and the folks feel pretty informed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

The 64th Sit-In Anniversary Breakfast and Wreath Laying is set for Feb. 1. The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University community will gather at the North Carolina A&T Alumni-Foundation Event Center to celebrate the legacy of four A&T freshmen who were keystones in the civil rights movement in 1960 during their sit-in at the downtown Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter.

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Steve Keating

JANUARY 11, 2024

I had a conversation with a friend a while back and he said that once you have discipline in your life everything is easy. I only wish that were true. That reality is that doing hard things is hard. Discipline allows you to do them anyway. It doesn’t make them easy. My definition of discipline is wanting something more in the future than the something that you want today.

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College Aid Services

JANUARY 31, 2024

Today, Richard Cordray, Chief Operating Officer for Federal Student Aid, published a Dear Colleague Letter (GEN-24-01) announcing the Federal Pell Grant maximum and minimum award amounts. For the 2024-2025 academic year, the maximum Pell Grant award remains fixed at $7,395 and the minimum award amount is $740. It is important to mention that Mr. Cordray… More » 2024-2025 Federal Pell Grant Maximum and Minimum Award Amounts The post 2024-2025 Federal Pell Grant Maximum and Minimum Award Amo

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Student Minds

JANUARY 6, 2024

Xaviera (Vee) describes their university experiences as a student from many marginalised backgrounds and gives advice to any students who need it. - Xavieria When I first came to university, my focus was on studying only. I care a lot about my academics and plan to stay in education as a researcher at some point. I spent my first year alone and isolated.

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Symplicity

JANUARY 3, 2024

In November, the UK Office for Students (OfS), in partnership with Nous Group, released it's report on a 10-month project to understand how higher education providers (HEPs) can better engage and work with the NHS and healthcare professionals. Participants from 45 HEPs and 19 regional healthcare providers engaged in monthly meetings to explore the challenges facing this collaboration.

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Counselors' Corner

JANUARY 10, 2024

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. My December holiday had a rough start. I went to my usual bagel place on a weekday, in the middle of the morning, and walked right up to the counter—no line, no massive crowd. Without even turning around, the clerk who was in the throes of making a bagel sandwich said “We aren’t taking any new orders.” How odd, I thought. The door was open, the lights were on, and there were clearly enough bagels in the baskets to feed an army.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2024

Complete College America makes a case for a shift in higher education funding formulas. In the new report, “Ending Unfunded Mandates in Higher Education: Using Completion-Goals Funding to Improve Accountability and Outcomes,” Complete College America (CCA) calls on states to evolve beyond performance-based funding to what they call completion-goals funding.

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Steve Keating

JANUARY 28, 2024

Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th President of the United States was known as a man who seldom used the word I. He had the ability to give entire speeches without using that one letter word. There was a more recent President of the United States who used the word I over 200 times in a relatively short speech. Surprising new research from the University of Texas suggests that people who often say “I” are less powerful and less sure of themselves than those who limit their use of

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College Aid Services

JANUARY 30, 2024

Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced that more than 3.1 million FAFSA applications have been successfully submitted and that they have updated the supporting tables used in the Student Aid Index (SAI) calculation to account for inflation. An additional $1.8 billion in federal aid was at stake if the tables were not adjusted. Unfortunately… More » 2024-25 FAFSA Student Aid Index Update and Timeline; ISIRs now coming the first half of March The post 2024-25 FAFSA Student Aid In

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Ready Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

We are thrilled to announce that Jeff Olsen has joined our team as the new VP of Sales America. Jeff brings with him a wealth of experience and expertise in the education sector, joining us from Post University and having served in multiple leadership positions through departments including enrollment, admissions and student success.

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Civitas Learning

JANUARY 11, 2024

Early alerts are a typical student success practice, and in theory, they’re a positive system to have in place. However, the latest research increasingly suggests that early alert systems can backfire, causing harm to both students and institutions. Poorly designed early alert programs can discourage students from engaging, overwhelm staff, and perpetuate existing biases.

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Counselors' Corner

JANUARY 31, 2024

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. Dear Principal: This was a little awkward for me at first. I’ve never been crazy about telling people when my birthday is—even if I’m filling it out online—since it seems like I’m saying “Hey, look at me, it’s time to make my day special”. That was my first thought for next week, which is National School Counseling Week. But then I took a closer look, and realized next week isn’t about me, the counselor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

Community college students in California will now have an easier time lining up their academic progress to transfer to a California State University (CSU) system school, now that CSU has opened up access to its recent Transfer Planner to even more students. Cal State LA CSU’s Transfer Planner – created by enrollment management technology company Liaison International – is an online platform where students who are attending or going to attend a California community college can see whether their p

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Steve Keating

JANUARY 14, 2024

I’ve asked many a business owner or CEO who their most “expensive” employee is. They typically say it is themselves or whoever the highest paid employee is. But that is often not true. An organization’s most expensive employee is their least engaged employee. Their least engaged employee may not be just disengaged, they may be actively disengaged. That means they are acting in a way that’s likely to cause other employees to disengage too.

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College Aid Services

JANUARY 29, 2024

The shift to remote work since the COVID-19 pandemic has created new opportunities for financial aid consultants to develop a stronger balance between their professional and personal responsibilities. For many, not having to commute to a physical office every day provides additional time to prepare for the challenges ahead in the workday. While we can… More » Home Sweet Office: Best Practices for Remote Work The post Home Sweet Office: Best Practices for Remote Work first appeared on Colle

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Student Minds

JANUARY 31, 2024

Dhriti talks about the activities that support her in dealing with grief. - Dhriti In July 2023, my world came crashing down when I lost my 18-year-old cousin. She was my companion in joyous moments, the person I celebrated birthdays, festivals, and family gatherings with. Our bond may not have been the closest, but it was undeniably special to the both of us.

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Community College Review

JANUARY 23, 2024

College is a time to explore new things and to think about where your future is going to take you. To make the most of it, be realistic about choosing your classes but don't forget to leave room for new challenges.

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Counselors' Corner

JANUARY 24, 2024

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. Most high school counselors have a love/hate relationship to scheduling. If building schedules is part of your duties, you get to actually see all of your students, and that’s good. On the other hand, if all you do with this time is put together a list of classes, that’s more a matter of logistics, and less a matter of counseling.

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