Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

Financial aid offices ought to re-examine their cost of attendance budgets for students living at home and consider the data undergirding their assumptions. Whatever your student housing strategy, please make sure that it is tightly connected to your retention, affordability, and equity strategies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

After nearly 50 years of funding community colleges based on enrollment and outreach, the state of Texas is considering making the switch to outcome-based funding, rooted in metrics like retention, completion, and the successful transfer to four-year programs. It matters for the future of this great state.” Dr. Karen A.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

assistant vice president for retention at Emory & Henry University, weighed in on what colleges and universities can do to help support underrepresented student groups to ensure they receive the care and support they need to succeed. In a Gen Ztressed webinar hosted by TimelyCare, experts Brianna Yahaya, M.S Proffitt, M.A.,

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 4, 2025

He highlighted the typical barriers that schools face: lack of dedicated financial aid officers, document misreporting, complex business ownership, and parents overwhelmed by deadlines and opaque requirements. Thirty percent of the families at my previous school were business owners, Dodson explained.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 11, 2022

Innovating to Close Equity Gaps: The National Institute for Student Success. Closing the Equity Gaps. Those equity gaps often stem from an outdated profile of the typical college student: a full-time, on-campus resident with an understanding of available resources and the bandwidth to seek those resources on their own.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

While loan payments will continue to be stalled for students actively enrolled at your institution, there are a number of ways they could negatively impact your students—and your retention rates— today. These concerns could impact retention as current students think critically about taking on more debt. Navigate partners see a 3.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

From a spring full of student protest to the ending of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) measures in some states, the list of stressors is only likely to increase as time marches into 2025. The delays and complications from the redesign resulted in fewer students applying for aid early, and put a strain on financial aid offices.

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