The University of Houston has increased the market share of students buying course materials from the bookstore by 79%, a 62-percentage-point increase from fall 2022.
Some students may be unable to receive their financial aid money in time to pay their bills, with classes only a few weeks away, after the Education Department announced that colleges will not be able to submit corrections to financial aid records in bulk this year.
Helping adult learners requires a system and institution-wide focus on providing effective support throughout the process and ensuring students receive credit for their past achievements.
Open educational resources remain an affordable alternative to pricey textbooks to increase accessibility and as an opportunity for faculty to customize their course textbooks.
Admissions offices are slowly integrating generative AI into their tool boxes to manage ballooning application pools while also easing staff burnout and other workload issues.
The rollout of the updated Free Application for Federal Student Aid meant schools received students' financial information months later than expected—and some students are still trying to determine their college costs weeks before the fall semester is set to begin.
Higher education institutions that can access their feelings don't just navigate the challenges of the modern landscape, they master them, ensuring their place at the forefront of an ever-evolving market.
Ramon Montiel-García, a newly minted high school graduate from Denver, was accepted to his first-choice school, Wheaton College in Massachusetts. However, with a sticker price of nearly $80,000 per year, he needed financial aid to bring the cost down.
For many people in prison, access to college courses is dependent on access to federal financial aid, including Pell Grant. But in over half of all states, men's prisons offer more access to Pell Grant-eligible courses than women's prisons do, researchers say.
Leaders at the only historically Black college in East Tennessee say they plan to submit an application within a month to the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools for to regain accreditation, which says the college is maintaining certain levels of educational standards.
