Most undocumented college students in California are not eligible for DACA anymore, creating new dilemmas for students and colleges around employment, financial aid and the threat of deportation.
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Posted inMississippi
New JSU president emphasizes accountability and financial sustainability
Thompson has spent much of his first four days as president getting to know students and the campus.
Posted inPittsburgh
Chatham cut faculty compensation to trim its deficit. Now, some faculty want to unionize.
Professors at the financially troubled university say they feel “less and less involved” in decisions — which is why they want bargaining power, and also why they might have a legal leg to stand on.
Posted inOhio
Cleveland State doubles down on ‘transcript trap’
Higher education has lots of practices and policies in place. One of them is called transcript withholding. It even has its own nickname, of sorts: the “transcript trap.” Here’s how that works. If a college student owes a school money for tuition, fees, or other costs, Ohio’s public colleges can – but aren’t required to – withhold […]
Posted inTampa Bay
3 million Floridians started college but didn’t finish. Some need a push.
So-called “noncompleters” are the focus of a program that urges students to finally get that degree.
Posted inTampa Bay
Florida university leaders bash plan to downgrade sociology
The subject has been “an integral part of higher education for nearly two centuries,” they said in a statement.
Posted inMississippi
Delta State dean gets no-confidence vote following lawsuit, Mississippi Today reporting
The resolution comes after reporting by Mississippi Today that included Green’s role in hiring Kent Wessinger, a business consultant, to be the interim co-chair of the music department.
Posted inColorado
Counselors welcome the Better FAFSA. But its delay might have consequences for students.
The updated FAFSA will be released Dec. 31. In a typical year, the government releases it in October.
Posted inTexas
Experts advise students to prepare for December launch of ‘Better’ FAFSA
In Texas, the high school classes of 2021 and 2022 left almost $886 million in Pell Grants unclaimed by not completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, better known as FAFSA. That is in spite of the state’s mandatory FAFSA completion policy that started during the 2021-22 academic year. Results of an Urban Institute study published […]
Posted inMississippi
IHL discriminated against JSU administrator in hiring Thomas Hudson in 2020, lawsuit alleges
Had IHL properly vetted Hudson following a full search, the lawsuit claims it would have known Hudson had sent “unwelcomed and uninvited photographs of his genitalia” to a JSU student and employee.