Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

4) Put all conversations you have with anyone in administration - about anything related to your public voice- in writing. Try to avoid casual conversations with them, and if you have them document what was said and by whom. Frankly you need that list handy every day you work for a university. Write it all down immediately. (5)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

In the current moment, many of my colleagues are on the front-line combing through records and various document management systems looking for the answer to whether students completed their degree requirements — did they graduate? All institutions of higher learning have the source of truth in the form of an academic catalog or bulletin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 25, 2024

The Technical FAQ and Known Issues Guide will document and respond to frequently asked questions about production ISIRs for the 2024-25 FAFSA year. ED officials said that they have fixed the error, and the problem would not affect applications that were processed correctly and distributed to colleges this month.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Accreditation bodies increasingly require that residency leaders have the requisite specialty expertise and documented educational and administrative experience,” said Susan Hildebrand of the College of Education and Human Development’s department of organizational leadership and learning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In our personal communications with senior university administrators, they have noted that more “procedural violations” emerge in promotions cases of minoritized vs. majority-group candidates. The criteria should be read aloud, prior to evaluating that dimension.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

When the revised Pell Grant regulations went into effect in July 2023, they contained a provision that college in prison programs must now document how they and/or organizations with which they partner provide reentry services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

Since then, hundreds of former and current students, teachers, staff, and administrators who spent time in Poe Hall have reached out to lawyers and local news agencies across the city of Raleigh to share that they are sick, many with cancer. Independent testing is slated to begin the week of July 29 and last for one week. Bryan Brice, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2023

created a “hostile environment” for her and Gwen Kea, SAU’s vice president of finance and administration. McPhail attributed the issues to incomplete audits, a lack of record maintenance and documentation under a previous administration, and an unreliable former auditor. Tensions in October McPhail alleges that, during the Oct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

Patrick Biddix, professor and program coordinator of the Higher Education Administration Ph.D. Biddix, Lundy, Brown and the A-Team are now in the final process of reviewing the hundreds of documents that make up their accreditation application, “crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s,” Lundy said. It’s been a long journey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As thoroughly documented by High Country News , forced land dispossessions serve as the foundation for institutions of higher education in the U.S. But the story goes much deeper, and the original assimilationist trajectory endures. My own institution, Kansas State University, used land entirely from the Kaw (Kanza or Kaá?

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

This issue has been well documented by Black scholars throughout the years. Higher Education is a very challenging environment for anyone but particularly for scholars and administrators of color. Hilton I have been in the academy for many years and have the stars and scars to show for it.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 25, 2025

The key lies in using accurate, up-to-date financial data, reducing administrative burdens, and following a proven methodology that ensures fairness and precision. Reducing Administrative Burdens with Automated Alerts One of the biggest pain points for financial aid officers is the back-and-forth required to verify financial information.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

For example, a Forbes report in February of 2022 documented how 18 HBCUs were underfunded by over $12.8 We (Black people) need to release ourselves from the chokehold of “pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps”. That would be easy to say maybe if we had boots or shoestrings to actually use. billion from 1987 to 2020. Dr. Frederick V.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Hall was so enamored of her cluster that she produced a short film about it, documenting how the relationships that she and the other professors had formed helped them navigate being people of color in academia. The administration also made sure that Hall wasn’t assigned an unreasonable amount of administrative or DEI work. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2024

I remember seeing copies of Black Issues in Higher Education in various administrators’ offices at Albany State, the historically Black university where I was an undergraduate student journalist in the mid-1990s. It was love at first sight. I love Black people – incontestably, this 40-year-old publication does and always has, too.

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Active Minds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

That’s where what Active Minds calls “Youth Champions” come in — parents, guardians, teachers, administrators, and community leaders alike — who all have an essential role in suicide prevention. Every year, too many young lives are impacted by mental health challenges, making suicide a significant concern.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Parents represented a wide spectrum of socioeconomic backgrounds and family compositions, while staff ranged from directors down to lower-level administrators. Financial aid administrators ultimately see themselves as championing the families they serve. Prioritizing students. Schools with streamlined billing processes stand out.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 19, 2024

Brice says he has fielded calls from over 250 people, including former students, staff, faculty, and administrators who spent time in Poe Hall and have since become sick with cancers or other illnesses. But, they are still subject to basic discovery, like turning over documents for a public records request,” says Brice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 28, 2023

NEW YORK Students, scholars, and administrators from across the City University of New York (CUNY) gathered last week at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) for an ethnic studies conference that both reflected on the discipline’s history and showed off new and on-going work.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JANUARY 31, 2025

This partnership introduces groundbreaking efficiencies that promise to benefit schools, families, and administrators alike. Enhanced Accuracy and Efficiency Traditionally, the financial aid process involves extensive paperwork, manual uploads of tax documents, and repeated follow-ups between families and school administrators.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Development of this 234-page framework document included the input of high school teachers and more than 300 African American studies professors from more than 200 U.S. The framework states that students will learn to evaluate concepts and historical developments that influenced Black experiences; recognize connections between Black U.S.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

While financial aid is essential for keeping private schools diverse and accessible, the administrative workload that comes with processing all these applications can quickly become overwhelming. The Challenges of Managing More Applications A higher volume of financial aid applications means more work for school administrators.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

From March 21, 2023, to July 31, the Lewis Rice attorneys reviewed documents and conducted interviews with 41 NCAA staff members and 29 NCAA committee members. The nine Lewis Rice attorneys who worked on this report have been either college athletes or athletic department administrators. Mullen, the lead attorney for this undertaking.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Designed specifically for private and independent K-12 schools, FAA removes administrative burdens, ensures award accuracy, and supports familieshelping schools optimize aid allocation and attract the right students. But what if you could simplify the process, reduce administrative strain, and enhance the family experienceall at once?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Greater diversity also has numerous well-documented benefits for all students. With diversity, there is a greater likelihood of interactions and friendships which can counter bias, modify negative cultural beliefs and help reduce harmful encounters. For nearly a decade, the Steve Fund has promoted the mental health of young people of color.

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College Aid Services

AUGUST 20, 2024

Administrators now have access to several new resources that focus on making corrections in the FAFSA Partner Portal (FPP) now that it will replace FAA Access to CPS Online.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Her distinct impact is valued by JCSU faculty and administration. “Dr. Another current project is a short film that will document the stories of women who have been part of the JCSU faculty and staff for over 30 years. She encourages young faculty to focus on the stories they want to tell.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Dr. Yoshiko Harden While Scott’s investment in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) is well-documented, her contributions to community colleges have not received as much attention. Students have the opportunity to work for either an administrative or academic department for up to 10 hours a week,” Oviedo says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

She was met with resistance from faculty, who thought distance education would “cannibalize” the in-person courses, but administration realized that distance education is an integral part of higher education’s future. Fully engaging students in the digital space is a work in progress, said Gibson-Gayle.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MARCH 5, 2025

VenturEd Solutions was proud to be a Diamond sponsor at this annual event where over 3,000 educators, administrators, and industry leaders gathered to explore the future of independent schools. This allows schools to streamline their workflows, reduce administrative burden, and focus on building stronger relationships with families.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The students’ volunteer work translating documents for Proyecto Inmigrante has a value of over $100,000 (when compared to what translation services charge). To date, 391 students, 98.72% of them Latino, have collaborated with more than 25 non-profit organizations for a total of 6,782 hours.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

APRIL 1, 2025

This technology allows schools to access verified IRS tax data in real time, eliminating the need for families to upload complex financial documents and cutting down administrative processing time. Thats where the recent integration of SSS with TaxStatus takes financial aid to the next level.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JANUARY 23, 2025

This breakthrough eliminates the need for manual completion of IRS forms and document uploads, ensuring faster, more accurate, and secure processing. Families complete financial aid applications in minutes, enjoying a stress-free process with no document uploads required.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

JANUARY 12, 2023

When providing financial aid for students at private schools, administrators have the important job of organizing and managing who receives funding and deciding how to keep track of each recipient. These financial aid tips for school administrators can help you learn how to manage student funds for your school.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

To achieve an integrated and holistic student support network, leaders understood that faculty and staff needed one place to easily document their student interactions and access important student data. They can document their own interactions and actions to contribute to the full picture of that student’s experience.

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