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A New Way of Looking at Administrative Burdens and Race

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the reasons that many of these efforts haven’t made as much difference as they could have is the administrative burdens that they place on students—the difficulty of the steps that students and their families must go through to apply for financial aid, or even to college at all. “By

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Potential Processing Delays for Financial Aid Due to Calculation Error

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Education Department (ED) said it has discovered a calculation error in student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them, potentially continuing delays for college applications. The guide will be updated regularly through April 2024.

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The Law School Hiring Market Undervalues Women, Minorities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The suit accuses the school’s faculty and administration of snubbing high-profile white male applicants. Inevitably, the document pairs its lonely truth with an almost laughable falsehood, stating that tax law scholars who are female are “difficult or impossible to find.” Neither Stanford nor the University of Chicago have any.

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Replacing Affirmative Action with ‘Positive Practices’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Because high schools that enroll substantial percentages of students of color are readily identifiable, colleges and universities must engage these designated school districts and, in conjunction with their administrative offices, create focused recruitment drives that begin the first day of the freshman year of high school.

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Another HBCU on Track for Reaccreditation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The college is anticipating submitting its application for approval in April. Patrick Biddix, professor and program coordinator of the Higher Education Administration Ph.D. Knoxville College (KC), a private institution, lost its accreditation in 1997. It’s been a long journey. I’m grateful for the team that’s stuck with us.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

whether reviewers decline to write for the candidate, length of the letter). · Recognize that there may be fewer appropriate letter writers in the pool for diverse applicants. · Recognize that minoritized faculty seldom/rarely have the same social and cultural capital as their White peers.

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Enhancing Family Experiences Through Financial Aid: Solutions and Strategies for Private K-12 Schools

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Parents represented a wide spectrum of socioeconomic backgrounds and family compositions, while staff ranged from directors down to lower-level administrators. Providing more direct support to families filling out applications. Satisfaction often came down to how easy it was for parents to fill out documents and pay school expenses.