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Wall Street is watching: enrollment, retention and tuition aren’t just an academic concern

Graduation ceremonies are over and a new freshman class is only weeks away from orientation. As another campus metamorphosis begins, student classes are clear evidence of a university’s realization that building enrollments and promoting graduation rates are only a small measure of their success.

June 18, 2007

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Common cents: what educators won’t tell you about managing personal debt

What Educators Won’t Tell You About Managing Personal Debt

June 17, 2007

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Stopping the raid on student aid

Washington In an assessment of the past political year at a Quality Education for Minorities luncheon, Dr. David Merkowitz of the American Council on Education said that threats to financial aid have been defeated and that affirmative action is still alive.

June 16, 2007

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Senate Report Questions Student Lender’s Old Rewards System

LINCOLN Neb. Student lender Nelnet used a points system to reward members of an advisory board with donations to universities in exchange for attending meetings and providing ideas, according to a U.S. Senate report.

June 15, 2007

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Student-athletes at work: NCAA work rule will be ‘difficult to monitor.’ – National Collegiate Athletic Association

In a surprise development at its annual convention, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) approved new legislation allowing athletes to work part-time jobs during the school year.

June 15, 2007

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Shutdown leaves ED program adrift – United States Education Department – includes related article on how the shutdown will effect higher education

The U.S. Education Department (ED) and other agencies continued to operate with only a skeleton staff through the December holidays after the second federal shutdown in as many months took effect Dec. 16.

June 15, 2007

Latinx

House Committee Approves Increase in Pell Grant, New Funding For Black Colleges

The House education committee on Wednesday approved a higher education bill that would increase Pell Grants, cut lender subsidies and make wide-ranging changes to help low-income students and minority-serving colleges.

June 13, 2007

Latinx

MSIs, College Access Programs Gain in House Bill

Advocates for low-income students are hailing a new U.S. House of Representatives agreement that would increase funding for college access programs and minority-serving institutions in 2008.

June 10, 2007

Students

Perspectives: College Dream Can Be Reality For America’s Refugee Citizens

Education is the proven universal passport to a better personal and financial future. Our nation prides itself on providing equal educational opportunities for all. The system isn’t perfect, and no one knows that better than the poor and those outside the mainstream of American life. Like other Americans, refugee and asylum families in this country dream of college for their children, but few find their way to our campuses. We must change that.

June 10, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Bishop State President on Hot Seat For Financial Aid Problems

For months, Dr. Yvonne Kennedy has sat on the searing presidential seat of Bishop Community College, the Mobile, Ala.-based historically Black institution that has been riddled with numerous scandals over the past four years.

June 5, 2007

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Hanging in the Balance

Federal legislation may chart new course for states considering whether to grant in-state tuition to undocumented immigrant students.

May 30, 2007

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Hanging in the Balance

Federal legislation may chart new course for states considering whether to grant in-state tuition to undocumented immigrant students.

May 29, 2007