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Holding Colleges Accountable: How the Big Beautiful Bill Affects Higher Education

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In May, the House of Representatives passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, broadly affecting higher education. Title III of the Act consisted of various proposed changes to existing legislation from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, organized in specific subtitles. These are: Subtitle A – Student Eligibility Subtitle B – Loan Limits […]

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A Radical Idea for American Higher Education: Let Colleges Fail

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It’s not unusual for American higher education to be in the news. In recent years, the headlines have ranged from massive student loan debt to student athlete compensation and from innovative research university discoveries to competition from coding camps and other alternative providers. Since President Trump’s inauguration in January, the news has focused more on […]

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Proposed 2025 Changes to Pell Grant Eligibility

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Several proposed changes to Pell Grant eligibility were included in the House of Representatives Budget Bill, passed in May. Most of the higher education community is critiquing these changes. Pell Grants are need-based awards, and the maximum Pell Grant award for the academic year 2024-2025 is $7,395. The first of these changes proposes that the […]

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Will Higher Ed See a Shift to Alternative Providers?

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I’ve been fortunate to spend a significant amount of time during my professional career in senior management roles in two industries, healthcare and higher education. The growth and expansion of both sectors can be traced to the year 1965 and the passage of major bills related to President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Great Society. On July […]

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The Evolution of Higher Ed’s Federal Financial Aid Programs in the U.S.

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During the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term in office, he implemented the following actions, some of which will affect federal financial aid: Issued several executive orders Sent letters to universities inquiring about their support of anti-Semitic activities Suspended federal grants to Columbia and Harvard Cut the federal research grant administrative expense reimbursement […]

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Hacking College: Why the Major Doesn’t Matter

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Many people talk about transforming higher education. Sadly, most of their suggestions relate to common ideas such as cutting administrative costs, reducing program majors that are underenrolled or no longer relevant, and improving student retention. When I read the pre-published blurb about Scott Carlson‘s and Ned Laff’s book Hacking College, I ordered it. The book […]

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Pell Runners: Is Financial Aid Fraud Too Easy?

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A list of papers I reviewed for a future post about Parent PLUS loans surfaced an eye-opening sentence about financial aid fraud from a 2022 article published in the American Journal of Cardiology: “At the suggestion of Larry Summers (the Obama Administration) ‘urged state unemployment offices to send a letter to every person receiving jobless […]

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Deconstructing and Reconstructing Sources Using NotebookLM

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I use an AI-related tool daily. Last October, I wrote about NotebookLM, Google’s personalized AI collaborator. In that article, I described my activities of loading links to previously published blog articles and creating audio files, aka podcasts. There were a few “hiccups,” but I enjoyed the audio output. Recently, I read that Google added more […]

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The Ongoing Debate About Online Course Pricing

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For nearly two decades, I led the online American Public University System through the early, medium, and high enrollment growth stages of online courses and degree programs. In those early years, I knew and worked with many of the major contributors to the development and improvement of online education and understood online course pricing very […]

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The Impact of AI on the Workforce and Training/Upskilling

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By now, it should be evident that generative AI tools will impact the future of the workforce. Predictions of the extent of the impact vary widely. There are several papers and articles that have come to my attention over the past few weeks that provide similar findings and viewpoints. Using AI in the Workplace as […]

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Subjects of Interest

Artificial Intelligence/AI

EdTech

Higher Education

Independent Schools

K-12

Science

Student Persistence

The Future of Work

Workforce

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