Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Almost 90% of students whose family income places them in the top quintile of earnings decide to enroll in either a two or four-year college, while just over 50% of high school graduates coming from the lowest quintile of earnings go on to enroll in postsecondary education. We have this prevailing meritocracy aura in higher education.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2023

By: Mamie Voight As the year draws to a close, we at the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) are taking a moment to reflect on the strides we’ve made and the work left to do to advance our mission – building a more equitable and just society through higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Four higher education organizations have come together to target and return SCND students, helping them complete their degrees and keep California on track to economic success. The bottom line, Drekmeier added, is to bring students back and rebuild the trust that higher education can and will serve them well. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

In a precedent-setting career in higher education, the late Dr. Alfredo de los Santos Jr. De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. Richardson Jr.,

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IHEP

APRIL 5, 2023

President Biden’s FY24 budget proposal included several much-needed increases in higher education funding. of funds from certain Higher Education Act (HEA) programs for data analysis, data collection, and rigorous evaluations.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

We’ve been making the case, backed by data, that higher education provides the best opportunity for social and economic mobility, that a college degree really represents the best long-term value for people. “We wanted to really try and understand what’s driving these enrollment drops,” she said.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Federal, state, and institutional policymakers have the power to close these racial and economic gaps and promote equitable access to the better living and better life that higher education can provide. The Institute for Higher Education Policy. The Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Therefore, in the postsecondary education arena, institutional decision-makers respond to short-term budgeting rewards. Figure 1 Postsecondary institutional budgets depend largely on tuition.

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HESA

MAY 24, 2023

A less charitable alternative is that the province does not understand (or is not willing to face the implications of) the key cost drivers in higher education. And these ones suggest that there is a lot of room for improvement in the state of the Higher Education policy discourse in Ontario.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Image: As recently as a decade ago, the concept of “value” rarely found its way into discussions about federal policy making about higher education. McCann: You certainly see it in the history around the policy, if not, in the Higher Education Act itself.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Now, there is a new analysis based on the Federal government’s College Scorecard that ranks 4,000 higher education institutions, providing prospective students with a clear and detailed view of their earning potential with specific majors, from which colleges and universities, and how quickly graduates pay off their loans.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

” Kaufman said the addition of secret shoppers in one piece in a broader effort by the department to protect students from bad actors in postsecondary education. The department’s decision to use secret shoppers is “four decades overdue,” he said.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

The Education Department announced last month that it would revisit nearly three decades of policy making under Title IV of the Higher Education Act that has largely restricted colleges from paying recruiters based on how many students they enroll. What Is the ‘Bundled-Services Exemption’?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: As recently as 2015, the University of Phoenix enrolled more than 400,000 learners, making it not only the center of the for-profit higher education universe but the biggest university in the United States by far. Phoenix wasn’t just synonymous with for-profit higher education. What’s acceptable?

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Department of Education, higher education lobbyists and policy experts say. “Their priorities are going to be much more about building a record with an eye toward 2024,” said Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies for the American Enterprise Institute, a right-leaning think tank.

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