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Department of Education Announces Steps to Make Better FAFSA® More Readily Accessible

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These steps are a direct response to input we’ve received from financial aid administrators and college and university presidents about where they’re seeing challenges in implementing Better FAFSA and the concrete ways and steps we can take that help them process this information easier and simpler,” said Cardona.

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Institutional Accreditation is in Dire Need of Change: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 144 With Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton And Guest Ralph Wolff

The Change Leader, Inc.

Because institutions are so large, accreditation typically looks at processes, program reviews, assessments of student learning, shared governance, documents, policies, and how they’re implemented. What are three takeaways for university presidents and boards? But the demographics have changed dramatically.

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Acting in the Best Interest of the Institution

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

President Welch emphasized that if you know you’re facing a hard choice, resolve to face it sooner rather than later: “We immediately went to our other six system campuses and said, ‘We're going to begin a very aggressive program review process.’ And I said, ‘No, no, no, no.