Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Student debt issues loom, and problems due to the rollout of the 2024-25 FAFSA linger. Student Debt/FAFSA Rollout Throughout his term, President Joe Biden has tried to provide student debt relief and has succeeded in bringing student loan forgiveness to some five million borrowers. Dr. Everrett A. Enrollment will begin in fall 2025.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Greg Nayor In what has been another delay, ED announced last week that schools and agencies involved in financial aid will receive Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) information – which they use to determine student total financial aid offerings – until the first half of March. It really does shorten things up quite a bit."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Students receiving Pell grants have graduation rates 21 percentage points lower than students who are not Pell-eligible. The regents have strengthened their partnership with the Kansas State Board of Education to begin improving access at the high school level. About 60% of our state university students graduate within six years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Flores, professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy and professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at University of Texas, says that 2024 was filled with the challenge of implementing Senate Bill (SB) 17, Texas’s new law prohibiting DEI programming and initiatives in public institutions of higher education.

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