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What the Grand Canyon Taught Me: Getting Real About Goals, Failure, and Digging Deep

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This is a guest blog by Stuart Jones, vice president for advancement and enrollment management at Southern Utah University. Stuart oversees the fundraising, marketing, and enrollment efforts at the university, and we have invited him to share his insights about the strategic enrollment planning process in this this post.

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California Bill Proposes Free Tuition for Low-Income Students Pursuing Bachelor’s Degrees at Community Colleges

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Assemblymember Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles, introduced the legislation , which would extend covered enrollment fees for eligible students under the California College Promise Grant from two to four academic years. "In million students enrolled in CCC. To receive the grant, you must fall within the income standards.

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UGA 2024 Early Action Updates

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We have gone from roughly 11,000 EA applicants in 2014 to almost 27,000 EA applicants this year, and we expect the overall applicant pool (EA and RD together) to show similar growth. If you look at the number of applicants over the past 10 years, you will see tremendous growth in our applicant pool both in size and in academic strength.

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Report Finds Students at 1 in 3 Graduate Schools Can’t Pay Off Their Debt

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An advanced degree is often associated with improved job prospects and higher salaries, but a new report found that many graduate schools are leaving students worse off financially than before they enrolled. It puts them in a scary situation and, frankly, it’s completely untenable."

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Dartmouth Announces Families Making Under $125K Pay Nothing, Thanks to Historic Gift

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Dartmouth alum and former Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt, who died in 2014, and his wife, Barbara Britt, who died in August, made a bequest to the college and its Tuck School of Business of over $150 million, which will help erase expenses for students from middle-income families.

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Georgetown Community Petitions to End Legacy Admissions for Descendants of Alums, Faculty, Staff

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Georgetown projected a decrease in enrollment from underrepresented groups. While President (John) DeGioia released a commendable statement in opposition to the ruling, we are worried by the findings in Georgetown's own report, which project a decrease in enrollment of students from underrepresented groups."

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Proposed Bill Would Allow Certain California Community Colleges to Offer 4-Year Nursing Degrees

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The CSU offers BSN programs at 20 campuses, 10 of which offer an ADN-to-BSN program , allowing community college students studying for their ADN to concurrently enroll at one of the CSU nursing programs. The CCC Baccalaureate Degree Program began in 2014. Only two UC campuses, UC Irvine and UCLA, offer bachelor's degrees in nursing.