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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I frequently write and speak about the higher-than-inflationary college tuition increases since the late 1970’s. More specifically, how the decision by Harvard’s Board in 1978 to increase Harvard’s undergraduate tuition…
