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Private college discount rates for first-year students, 2021

Higher Ed Data Stories

And when it does, it won't be at one of "those" colleges. It will not tell you which colleges are likely to close soon, although after the fact, you can probably find a closed college and say, "Aha! It will not show you net costs to students. Unfortunately, as you'll soon, see, colleges all set their own tuition.

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Excelencia in Education Publishes Analysis about Today's Latino College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latino college students are more likely to be first-generation students and less likely to leave college having earned their degrees, according to a new report from Excelencia in Education. This is a significant college-going population,” Labandera told Diverse. Of the Latino students in U.S.

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Summer Sessions Are Integral to Student Success in Higher Education

MindMax

Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year , and summer sessions have become an essential component of both standard and alternative educational pathways. College credit programs.

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Colleges won’t receive FAFSA applicant info until March, Education Department says

Higher Ed Dive

The delay further truncates the timeline for institutions to make financial aid offers, and experts have worried that holdups may harm students.

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Colleges must take ‘student-centered approach’ to prison education, report says

Higher Ed Dive

Incarcerated students will be eligible for federal Pell Grants in less than a month.

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Ghost Students: The Rise of Bots in Online Education 

Faculty Focus

Chatbots are increasingly common in customer service, healthcare, and education; however, in education, chatbots have been used to generate false or misleading information called “hallucinations” and create fake students. This is different from generic applications where chatbots may only handle customer service inquiries.

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Education Department plans to ramp up transmission of FAFSA data to colleges

Higher Ed Dive

The agency also announced fixes to issues that prevented some students from completing the form, though it flagged several new glitches.