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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 26, 2023
This includes working on retention strategies that emphasize information on financial aid and mental health services as well as continuing to build a sense of belonging. Another support group, the Hispanic Organization for Growth, Advancement and Retention, has focused on family engagement.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The guide also recommended pairing completion grants with other resources and supports for students in need, because “participants reported that students who received completion grants were also likely to request emergency aid to remedy acute financial barriers to student success, such as basic needs insecurities and other nonacademic factors.”
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.”
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.,
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.
Blackboard Blog
MARCH 21, 2022
Harpham, Director of Student Financial Aid at The University of Akron, had to say: “The partnership with Blackboard has completely changed the way that we do business in the financial aid office. Increased learner satisfaction and retention. Addressing these pain points is essential to improving retention.
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