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💡 TL;DR: Paperwork at a trade school looks like a staffing line item but acts like a liability. It consumes 10-20% of your admissions and aid team’s week, delays students by days at a time, and creates the exact conditions Title IV auditors flag. With proprietary schools required
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What the Anthology Bankruptcy Means for Your Student Information System Your SIS vendor just filed for bankruptcy. Now what? If your institution runs on Anthology’s PowerCampus — or any of its suite products — September 29, 2025 was a date that changed your technology roadmap whether you were ready for it
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Introduction: The High Stakes of Student Management Changing Landscape for Small Colleges in 2026 Small colleges in 2026 face mounting disruptions: unpredictable shifts in enrollment, aggressive EdTech investment among peers, and fast-changing regulatory demands. These changes force institutions to adapt rapidly—operational agility and digital transformation are now mission-
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Why Are Financial Aid Applicants Falling Through the Cracks? When trade schools and community colleges invest resources in recruiting students, every unfinished financial aid application is an urgent warning sign. Institutions are seeing enrollment opportunities slip away—not because of demand, but because the financial aid process itself is confusing,
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The New Face of Trade School Attendance: Why Modernization Matters Enrollment and Industry Trends in 2025 and Beyond Trade school enrollment is undergoing historic expansion, with a projected 6.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through the end of the decade. Fall 2023 alone saw program enrollments reach 5.5
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At least 15 nonprofit colleges closed in 2025 due to enrollment and financial challenges. The “enrollment cliff”—a projected 15% decline in college-age students through 2029—is hitting small institutions hardest.  For colleges with 50-500 employees, the math is brutal. Small institutions are 47% more likely to face
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The welding instructor teaching both on-campus and remote sections of the same course faces an impossible calculus. His classroom students swipe ID cards when they enter. Simple enough. But his remote students? They’re supposed to log into Zoom for live sessions, complete asynchronous modules on their own schedule,
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The rules are changing mid-game. In April 2025, President Trump signed an executive order instructing the Department of Education to reform higher education accreditation—streamlining processes, encouraging competition among accreditors, and investigating agencies that impose what the administration characterizes as ideologically-driven requirements. The Department responded by lifting restrictions
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Securing funding through grants and donations in higher education is a critical strategy for sustaining educational operations and fostering innovation. However, gaining consistent, reliable funding requires navigating an increasingly competitive landscape. In the U.S. education sector, over $45 billion in grants and donations are awarded annually. But this vast
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Current Landscape and Challenges of Traditional Student Information Systems in Trade Schools Limitations of Traditional SIS for Trade and Small Higher Education Institutions Traditional student information systems (SIS) were built with large, four-year institutions in mind. For trade schools and small higher education institutions, these legacy SIS platforms often