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Early Lift in Persistence After Adopting Integrated Academic Planning and Student Scheduling

Civitas Learning

The Strategy: Implement an end-to-end planning, scheduling, and registration system to make it easy for students to receive guidance and find the classes they need to complete their degree. Additionally, advisors and the registrar’s team invested significant time manually preloading students’ schedules before new student orientation.

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Report Finds Increased Interest in Higher Ed for Career Advancement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The State of Higher Education 2024 Report documents how current, prospective, and stopped-out students view post-high school education pathways, their access to them, their value, and experiences. The study includes responses from more than 14,000 U.S. economy depends on it.

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Navigating the CSS Profile: A Comprehensive Guide for Parents

College Aid Consulting Services

CSS Profile Tips and Tricks: Gather your financial documents in advance: Before you begin filling out the CSS Profile, gather all of your financial records, including tax returns, W-2 forms, and bank statements. Be accurate and complete: The CSS Profile is a complex form, but it is essential to be as accurate and complete as possible.

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2025–26 FAFSA Specifications Guide (October 2024 Update #4)

College Aid Services

The volumes contained in this guide contain FAFSA Processing System (FPS) technical information for the 2025-26 award year and are only available as PDF documents at this time.

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A Registrar’s View: Will You Graduate?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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How Colleges and Universities Nationwide are Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The MLK Day programming schedules for several schools span multiple days full of various events, recognizing the numerous facets and aspects of the Civil Rights Movement. For many of them, the school has scheduled a “day of service,” wherein students, faculty, and staff can volunteer in their community.

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UMich Graduate Employee Union Goes on Strike After Months of Negotiations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The next bargaining session is scheduled for Friday, and the university remains ready to meet at any time." There still remain barriers between them (transgender students) and receiving that care," Fleischmann said. "So