Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

Casualties of the ongoing FAFSA debacle continue to stack up, even as Federal Student Aid Director Richard Cordray leaves the situation behind. While the U.S. Department of Education works to fix the broken system, it’s time for community college leaders to remind Americans that these important institutions exist. Experts predict that huge numbers of students won’t go to college this fall — we can head that off by reminding them that college decisions need not be made in spring, and no matter wh

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Steve Keating

MAY 2, 2024

I’ve been fortunate to know many successful people. They come from all walks of life, many different cultures, backgrounds, and industries. Many of them report one particular similarity in their journeys to success. That similarity is that they faced a myriad of challenges and obstacles on their individual journey to success. Some of the challenges were severe enough that they felt like quitting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

College students are turning to faculty for career advice, but not as many of these educators are working with their school’s career centers to better respond, according to a new study from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Shawn VanDerziel The study – conducted in partnership with the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) and the Society for Experiential Education (SEE) – looked at responses from 6,800 college faculty to gauge the extent to whi

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College Aid Services

MAY 2, 2024

On May 1st, FSA announced that the Department will begin reprocessing 2024-25 FAFSA forms at the request of state agencies to address an issue with the order of school codes on the Institutional Student Information Record (ISIR). These reprocessed records will not result in changes to the student’s SAI or eligibility for federal student aid.… More » 2024-25 FAFSA Update: Additional ISIRs being Reprocessed The post 2024-25 FAFSA Update: Additional ISIRs being Reprocessed first appeared on C

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

Monica Sanders Monica Sanders has been appointed social innovator in residence at Grinnell College. During the residency, Sanders is expected to engage with students, faculty, staff, and the wider community through collaborative initiatives that promote civic engagement, social justice, and environmental stewardship. Sanders holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Miami Coral Gables, a master’s degree in international business law from the University of London, and a j

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College Aid Services

MAY 2, 2024

317,000 borrowers will have $6.1 Billion in student loan debt forgiven after an investigation by the Department Education revealed that The Art Institutes committed “pervasive and substantial misrepresentations” to prospective students about postgraduation employment rates, salaries, and career services. This approval automatically applies to borrowers who were harmed by this misleading information regardless of… More » Former Art Institute Students Receive $6.1 Billion in Loan

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Student Loan Planner

MAY 2, 2024

If you are a physician working in a managed care health system, chances are you’ve asked yourself at least one of these questions about work-life balance: If this sounds like you, transitioning into locum tenens work might be appealing. It lets you choose your own assignments, decide when and how long to take time off,… The post Locum Tenens Physician Tax Planning Essentials: Navigating Inconsistent Income appeared first on Student Loan Planner.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

MAY 2, 2024

Note: This letter originally appeared as an e-mail sent to the Hopkins community on Thursday May 2, 2024. Dear Johns Hopkins Community, I am sharing with you the message I sent earlier today to the members of the Hopkins Justice Collective and student protesters who are encamped on our Homewood campus. As I did earlier this week, I chose to speak directly to the protesters, who include members of our community and those unaffiliated with Hopkins, to share the reasons why we are calling for an im

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