Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Dr. Kenyon Bonner Kenyon Bonner has been appointed vice president and chief student affairs officer at the University of Virginia. Bonner holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and psychology from Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, a master’s in rehabilitation counseling from Kent State University in Ohio, and a doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania.
College Aid Services
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
C-Flags and Comment Codes: What’s New and What’s Not? C-Flags and Comment Codes: What’s New and What’s Not? Broadcast date: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 Join us as we dive into all the changes to the C-Flags and Comment Codes for 2024-25, as well as provide a refresher course on all the items we already know… More » C-Flags and Comment Codes: What’s New and What’s Not?
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
All these unheard voices Please let them be heard These are lyrics from a song called “Unheard Voices,” written by “C.T.,” a young person at Butler Treatment Center in Massachusetts. It was written for the Unsung songwriting competition, where incarcerated youth write and produce their own music. It’s part of BreakFree Education, an organization which partners with juvenile justice agencies across the nation to offer educational programs.
College Aid Services
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Federal Student Aid has updated the draft 2024–25 FAFSA Specifications Guide. The volumes contained in this guide contain FAFSA Processing System (FPS) technical and processing information for the 2024–25 award year. What changed? Volume 4 – Record Layouts and Processing Codes and the 2024–25 Final ISIR Record Layout in Excel Format; these are now final.… More » 2024-25 FAFSA Specifications Guide (February 2024 Update) The post 2024-25 FAFSA Specifications Guide (February 2024 Update) firs
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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Dr. Kenyon Bonner Kenyon Bonner has been named vice president and chief student affairs officer at the University of Virginia. Bonner served as vice provost for student affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and philosophy from Washington and Jefferson College, an M.Ed. in rehabilitation counseling from Kent State University, and a doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania.
NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
To help fix massive past problems in the student loan system that prevented people from getting the credit they should have toward loan forgiveness, the Department of Education is currently working on giving borrowers retroactive credit toward loan forgiveness. The Department is calling this credit a “ one-time payment count adjustment.” The goal of the payment count adjustment is to help borrowers who have been hurt by loan servicing failures get the credit they should for the time they have al
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
ORLANDO— Achieving the Dream (ATD), the national reform network of more than 300 community colleges committed to increasing student success, kicked off its annual convening this week showcasing the powerful narrative of its member institutions. College presidents, senior leaders, faculty and students have come to this year’s conference with the goal of sharing best practices on how they’ve transformed their institutions to benefit students.
COE
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
From Iowa to Louisiana, TRIO Day Commands National Attention February 20, 2024 — by Terrance L. Hamm The Mississippi Association for Educational Opportunity Program Personnel hosted its National TRIO Day 2023 event at Jackson State University: the day-long celebration workshops, student competitions, and men’s and women’s basketball games.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Recently, yet another case of traumatic racism made the headlines. A two-year old Black girl (toddler) was fingerprinted and handcuffed by a white classmate during a play about Rosa Parks. While we often cannot know intentions, the impact of such incidence is profound. This is especially unfortunate as there are numerous cases of related forms of school-based discrimination in the U.S.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
The Biden-Harris administration has announced it will automatically discharge $1.2 billion in loans for nearly 153,000 borrowers who are eligible for the shortened time to forgiveness benefit under President Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan. The action comes as 7.5 million borrowers are enrolled in SAVE, 4.3 million of whom have a $0 monthly payment.
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