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The Better FAFSA: What Colleges Need to Know Right Now

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The Free Application for Federal Student Aid—commonly known as FAFSA®—is the form current and prospective college and career school students must fill out each year to qualify for federal financial aid, whether that be in the form of grants, loans, or work-study funds. The Federal Student Aid (FSA) office in the U.S.

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Association 4.0—A Playbook for Success

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Boards that are professionally, demographically, and ideologically diverse are more likely to be open to risk tolerance. recommends looking outside members’ professional expertise to provide a spectrum of opinions among leaders: “If you don’t have leaders with a range of professional backgrounds, there will not be a lot of new thinking.

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Information: The Better Half of IT

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As a Database Administrator, my world revolves around helping users make sense of the information they receive, from voice-of-the-customer anecdotes and impressions to polished Key Performance Indicator (KPI) graphs, charts, and dashboards. Data gives us context. How do I care for my data? That’s okay!

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The One Record Myth in K–12 School Software

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Your school has a wealth of vital information—enrollment applications, student records, financial records, donor and alumni records—and stakeholders with different requirements and abilities. Is it possible to have one record for each constituent at a school? The short answer is no, not if you want to use your data in meaningful ways.

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Evolution of Today’s Nonprofit Professional

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Whether you were born into it, fell into it or discovered it along your life’s journey, today’s nonprofit professionals follow an evolutionary path much like that of our species. Students build off the work of alumni going back to the 1980’s raiseing funds to attend the national conference in January each year.

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Debunking 3 Myths About Digital Transformation

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Robert Morris University’s mission is to help students become engaged, productive, and successful citizens. As RMU President Dr. Chris Howard puts it, technology is one of the key enablers that pushes the university toward its goals: “[We want to be] the most agile, professionally career-focused university in the country.

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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

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Learning analytics is an emergent field of research that aspires to use data analysis to inform decisions made on every area education, from understanding student data to build better pedagogies, target at-risk students, and to assess whether programs designed have been effective and should be sustained.