CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The post Demystifying Financial Aid: Key Terms Every High School Senior Should Know appeared first on CFAA. For many high school seniors, the reality about balancing school, life, and even work may be settling in as the first month of classes finishes up.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2024

The percentage of recent law school graduates employed in full-time, long-term Bar Passage Required or J.D. of the 2023 graduates of the 195 ABA-approved law schools, were employed in full-time, long-term Bar Passage Required or J.D. of the graduates reporting similar full-time, long-term jobs in the previous year.

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Moneyman

JUNE 13, 2020

By purchasing life insurance at a young age, you get two important benefits: a much lower monthly rate for your premiums, and the chance to qualify for insurance (hopefully) long before you have developed or suffered from any long-term health complications. Term insurance covers you for a specific period of time, and then ends.

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Community College Review

AUGUST 2, 2021

While study abroad has long been considered an option only for students at four-year colleges and universities, there are actually many options for community college students who would like to experience studying in another country.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

We see how introductory courses like Calculus play a unique role as a gateway or barrier for racially minoritized students in terms of access to STEM majors and careers,” he says. “We Another project that he is working on is titled, “Queer Students of Color in STEM,” a multi-institutional study across PWIs and MSIs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One of the characteristics that sets this report apart is how it separates students not only by part-time versus full-time, but also by splitting within those two categories themselves in terms of annual credits taken, what the report authors refer to as ‘degree velocity.’

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

The Senators also called on the Department to remedy the incomplete guidance for higher education institutions and students, confusion and misinformation surrounding the form, and the potential long-term educational impacts of this error.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

“We sought to put in place a new financially sustainable structure that will support CAR’s mission for the long term. According to Kendi, the center’s funding since its creation was heavily dependent on donor gifts rather than long-term institutional grants.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

While the issues and challenges related to LGBTQ students in higher education have become a national concern, the study of the three community college conference programs revealed that the term LGBTQ did not appear one time. The terms food insecurity and housing insecurity appeared once for each term.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

This starts with short-term credentials that help graduates gain entry to a specific career field in industries that are hiring. Helping overcome barriers, no matter how small , can increase the likelihood that students will return for the next term and complete enough credits to stay on track to finish their credentials.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2023

It’s a short-term fix, not a long-term solution,” Bultas said. “I It found that bac­calaureate nursing students taught in a course with a therapy dog showed improvement in stress, anxiety, and happiness. Students are stressed all semester. We bring a dog in, which calms them for an hour, but next week the dog's gone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under USDS, the education department seeks to create a centralized loan servicing environment that will increase its ability to perform effective oversight and meet the needs of borrowers with aims to move full account management, branding, and repayment from the servicers’ websites to studentaid.gov, over the longer term.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Though their former contract expired last June, the union members – approximately 5,500 faculty and athletic coaches – have still been working under those terms. Ratification from the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties itself will take at least a month, said union president Dr. Kenneth M.

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APRIL 25, 2023

Keon will be transitioning into a faculty role at the end of his term in June 2024, The Exponent reported. Keon’s term ends next year given that he will have reached the limit to how long one can stay in the role, 12 years. Purdue Northwest (PNW) Chancellor Dr. Thomas L. Dr. Thomas L. Keon This announcement came Monday.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Dr. Marybeth Gasman To truly comprehend the role HBCUs play in community and economic development, it is essential to understand the complementary nature of these terms. HBCUs perform well in terms of moving African Americans up the socioeconomic ladder , which has led them to being an instrumental force in building the Black middle class.

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MARCH 27, 2024

The job is continuing to change in terms of the complexity. We truly get to know them in terms of board, alumni, students, faculty, and staff.” For presidents or executives who do not want to deal with that, they may shorten their term and leave,” says Broussard. Social media has changed how so many things operate.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Reuters reported that a proposal under consideration by the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar would require law schools to hire full-time legal writing instructors and other untenured full-time faculty on five-year “presumptively renewable long-term contracts.” The proffer — offered initially in a Nov.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The statement further fired back against Florida: “They also claimed that we removed terms like “systemic marginalization” and “intersectionality” at their behest. The notion that we needed Florida to enlighten us that these terms are politicized in several states is ridiculous. This is not true.

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APRIL 2, 2023

Making sure that all students have what they need and that we’re being mindful of any gaps in terms of completion, persistence, programming and social and economic mobility.” If students are not mentally and psychologically safe and if they’re not cared for in terms of their needs, it’s very difficult to learn.”

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JUNE 6, 2023

Lightfoot will be a fellow for the fall 2023 term, during which she will teach a course, tentatively titled, “Health Policy and Leadership” in the school’s Department of Health Policy and Management. Chan School of Public Health. Lori Lightfoot Lightfoot is Chicago’s first Black woman and first openly gay mayor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Bazan — whose term begins July 1, soon after the official transition to the new name of Union Adventist University — brings a long legacy of supporting and mentoring students, university leaders, and local church constituents. Yamileth Bazan will become the 30th president of Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

But we must also operate within our means to protect the long-term success and stability of the university, our students, and our faculty.” Officials said that, in the absence of a change in bargaining position by CFA, the raise concludes bargaining on the contract reopener.

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MARCH 8, 2024

Further lapses in Clery Act compliance could jeopardize the terms of the university’s participation in the federal student aid programs or result in other administrative sanctions. The education department will also conduct post-review monitoring of Liberty through April 2026 to ensure the school executes on promised improvements.

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MAY 6, 2024

It is trying to convince you that behind the apparent complexities of a discipline (exotic equations, weird terms, dates, and definitions) is an exquisite charm that has enraptured other people like you for centuries. It is trying to generate affections in your mind for the subject. Go to office hours These are divine inventions.

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Student Loan Planner

MARCH 27, 2024

Long-term disability insurance protects your income if an injury or medical condition prevents you from working for an extended period of time. How do long-term disability benefits work? But how much disability insurance pays and for how long depends on your policy and its benefit period.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Reading and mathematics skills of 13-year-olds have declined, according to findings from The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)’s NAEP long-term trend (LTT) reading and math assessments. The scores also saw a decrease, 7 points in reading and 14 points in math, when compared to a decade ago. “We

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

To note, the data used by California Competes only looked at students’ first two attempts at each transfer-level course, so those who complete courses during their third try in a year – in perhaps a summer term or a third quarter term – would not have been accounted for, the brief stated.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Currently, women are underrepresented not only in terms of those pursuing degrees in tech-related fields but in the tech workforce as well,” said Dr. Judith Spitz, founder and executive director of Break Through Tech.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Michael Hansen, CEO of the Cengage Group “Colleges who offer flexible, shorter term and cost-effective ‘micro-credential’ opportunities will win out in today’s market,” said Cengage CEO Michael Hansen. Too often, these short-term certificates get presented as a silver bullet,” said Cormier.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Instead, new student orientation, advising, and other supports are focused on assessing whether students need remediation, introducing students to the college, and helping them schedule their first-term courses. we have learned that student connections should begin early—even before they start the term.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

“We look forward to providing students with an opportunity to gain relevant working experience while continuing their college education, whether they have an interest in working for Target long-term or want to gain knowledge and skills as they look to their junior year," said Maya Moss, Target's lead executive recruiter.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Partnership With Native Americans PWNA collaborates with Tribal programs to address immediate relief and long-term solutions such as emergency preparedness, food security, and education. Synchrony is providing the grant for 2023 and 2024, through its philanthropic program, Education as an Equalizer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

“Understanding the importance of holistic development, our RPED program focuses on building self-confidence, perseverance, critical thinking skills, and self-responsibility essential for long-term success,” said Rouse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2023

The significant expansion will increase the number of degree, certificate, and short-term training programs at Onondaga’s school of health by more than double.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Even with these successes, the long-term viability of many HBCUs remains precarious if we don’t take advantage of this moment to create lasting, systemic changes to advance the ways HBCUs operate and provide more Black Americans with access to the distinct educational opportunities these historic campuses offer.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

The agreement enables the CSU to fairly compensate its valued, world-class faculty while protecting the university system’s long-term financial sustainability,” said García.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Stout said that colleges with strategic financial plans were more easily able to invest HEER funds into long-term projects. “Going into COVID was an emerging big need around basic needs, tech access, food insecurity, housing insecurity, and they really stepped up and made emergency student aid an agenda.”

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