Bundling financial planning & student success in higher education [Meadow, January 2023]

Title:

Bundling financial planning & student success in higher education

 

Author:

Amy Jenkins

 

Published:

Meadow, 10 January 2023

https://www.meadowfi.com/resources/bundling-financial-planning-student-success-in-higher-education

 

From the article:

Financial confusion and stress can lead to less-than-ideal outcomes in higher education. But perhaps the most serious of all isn’t tied to loans or work-studies. Instead, financial stress can have a serious effect on student success in higher education. 

 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - The Nationwide College Graduation Rates

Title:

The Nationwide College Graduation Rates

Published:

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 23 November 2020

https://www.jbhe.com/2020/11/the-nationwide-racial-gap-in-college-graduation-rates-4/

From the article:

Department of Education data compiled by the National Collegiate Athletic Association shows graduation rates for all students who entered college in 2013 and earned their degrees within six years at the same NCAA Division I institution at which they entered in 2013. These colleges and universities are among the largest in the nation. For all students who enrolled in bachelor’s degree programs at these four-year institutions in 2013, 67 percent earned their degrees at the same institution by 2019.

Short Article: A Unique Experiment in Serving the Educationally Undeserved

Title:
A unique experiment in serving the educationally undeserved

Author:
David A. Bergeron

Published:
HigherEducationToday (a higher education blog by the American Council on Education), 13 November 2019

From this article:
"As a federal higher education policy advisor and regulator, I often struggled to reconcile the goal of greater access for older adults with the lack of meaningful outcomes. Certainly, there are examples of high-performing public, private nonprofit and private, for-profit institutions that could justify continued federal investment, albeit with greater consumer disclosure and under stricter regulatory requirements. However, the problems of poor retention and graduation rates, particularly among students that had been out of the educational system for some time, often seemed unsolvable, despite a century of reliance on peer review-based accreditation that was expected to gradually - but inevitably - improve outcomes.

At the same time that federal officials were trying to address these challenges, the founders of College Unbound were working to develop and perfect a model that shows great promise for achieving significantly better outcomes for working adults and others that have been poorly served by our nation's more traditional colleges and universities."

To read this article:
https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/11/13/unique-experiment-serving-educationally-underserved/