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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
Enrollment Rebound and History of Survival September 9, 2025 - 4:59 pm
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 […]
Enrollment Rebound and History of Survival
Sean Hudson – Consultant – Financial Aid Services I recently received a LinkedIn announcement stating that one of my former schools has its largest freshman class this fall since the pandemic. I welcomed this positive news. College enrollment is still below pre-pandemic levels, but it seems to be trending upward over the last couple of […]