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Financial Aid Is Not Just Processing: Why It Is Mission-Critical to Institutional Health and Success
Financial aid operations are often treated as back-office processing. In practice, they function as mission-critical...
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Keith W. Cobb Appointed as Consulting Director for Financial Aid Services for focusEDU
Herb Riley, President of focusEDU, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Keith W. Cobb as Consulting...
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Is Your Financial Aid Operation Ready for 2026–27?
Keith W. Cobb on why the 2026–27 aid year is a readiness checkpoint, not an annual rollover: align aid setup,...
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Preparing for the Visit from a Consultant
Glenn Munson outlines the steps a president, provost, or vice president should take to prepare for a consulting...
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Everybody Loves Progress, but Nobody Likes Change
Change is a way of life — but everyone experiences it through four stages: denial, resistance, exploration, and...
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Stop Treading Water: Reinvent Your Business Processes
Many higher education processes become inefficient over years of minor fixes. Stop treading water—initiate process...
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