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The last normal year: Freshman Discounts at Private Colleges, 2019

Higher Ed Data Stories

Different colleges talk about it differently, and even with this IPEDS data, it's impossible to be precise. But discount rate essentially calculates how much of a college's tuition revenue is offered to students as institutional financial aid. College X enrolls 1,000 students, and it charges tuition of $40,000. Sounds easy.

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Here’s the share of college students who took financial aid in 2019-20

Higher Ed Dive

Newly available federal data also shows how much average aid that undergraduates and graduate students accepted.

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Report: HBCUs Received 178 Times Less Foundation Funding than Ivy League Schools in 2019

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

On average, historically Black college and universities (HBCUs) received 178 times less funding from foundations than Ivy League schools in 2019, according to a report from research group Candid and ABFE, a nonprofit advocate for investments in Black communities, the Associated Press reported. billion from foundations in 2019.

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

Inside Higher Ed

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 million freshmen who enrolled in 2019, “this is a very promising sign for higher education,” said Doug Shapiro, the research center’s executive director. In 2020, community college enrollment dropped a whopping 10.5 and 2 percent.

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This university says it cut emissions by 19% since 2019. Was it all changes in commuting?

Higher Ed Dive

Here's what other college leaders can do. Vanderbilt University chalks up carbon emissions cuts to efficiency, energy sourcing and, yes, travel changes.

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University of Arizona plans accreditor switch set in motion by controversial online college acquisition

Higher Ed Dive

The change comes after the Education Department in 2019 started allowing regional accreditors to recruit colleges outside of their historical boundaries.

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New England College to shut down Manchester campus, previously an art institute

Higher Ed Dive

What was previously the New Hampshire Institute of Art merged with the private nonprofit college in 2019.