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ShutterstockHEA 60th AnniversaryNovember 4, 2025 - 4:09 pm
Shifting Ground Part 4: The Compliance Crunch: When Regulation Meets RealityOctober 14, 2025 - 1:55 pm- Shifting Ground Part 3: The Staffing Crisis in Financial Aid: A Strategic Risk Hiding in Plain SightSeptember 22, 2025 - 3:46 pm
HEA 60th Anniversary
“Happy Birthday, Higher Education Act – You Turn 60 this November!” If someone asked you what the birth date of our profession was, what would you say? I think the consensus would say it was Monday November 8, 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Higher Education Act (HEA). The HEA opened college doors for […]
Shifting Ground Part 4: The Compliance Crunch: When Regulation Meets Reality
Why compliance is becoming higher education’s next existential challenge—and what leaders must do now. In the wake of sweeping federal restructuring and shifting financial aid economics, colleges and universities face a new and unrelenting pressure point: compliance. The higher education regulatory environment—already labyrinthine—is now entering a period of unprecedented fragmentation. The same federal policies meant […]
Shifting Ground Part 3: The Staffing Crisis in Financial Aid: A Strategic Risk Hiding in Plain Sight
A Silent Crisis with Loud Consequences Higher education is facing a crisis that too often goes unspoken: the collapse of the financial aid talent pipeline. More professionals are leaving the field than entering, and the trend shows no sign of slowing. This isn’t a temporary staffing challenge — it’s a long-term structural decline that threatens […]