➤ The department is exploring a move to the NAIA within the next two years, as the institution is growing with a number of four-year degree programs and a shrinking number of in-state peers. “Not many people know this, but the junior colleges are kind of diminishing in Georgia. There's only three state junior colleges left in Georgia: Georgia Highlands, South Georgia State College and Gordon State College. That's it. There are some technical colleges left that do play in our conference, but they only play the sport of basketball. So right now we're competing against two other teams for baseball and softball, and we have no other volleyball teams in our conference. So we're competing with a hodgepodge of teams from Alabama and Tennessee because we're closer to the Tennessee border. So yeah, our league is just kind of diminishing a little bit and we fit the size and the mold for the NAIA model now that our degree paths have grown and our enrollment is growing and we've been highly competitive in our level as well.”

➤ On sport sponsorship: “In my opinion, we're stabilizing. We've got our six sports because you have to have six sports for NAIA. We're just trying to build healthy checks and balances for every sport so we can still be competitive, get the recruits that we want, but also still provide a good student-athlete experience because that's very important to me as well. We want them to be able to get the food that they want, to have decent travel, not fully fundraising to function 24/7 and just be able to provide good support. So I think right now our goal is to stabilize that across those six sports. I do think if we were to add an additional sport, the next one up to bat would be men's cross country.” (link)

➤ The 24K square-foot Center for Sports Performance is under construction and will house the football program as well as athletic training and several academic programs. On moving all coaches outside of football and gym sports into the Triton Athletic Complex: “It has created an environment that screams teamwork every day. All of our assistants are in cubicle spaces, so they're talking every day, they're working together every day. So there's some really exciting things going on. And I think that's going to push us as an athletic department over the top, make us more successful.”

➤ On expanding the athletic training space from 1,200 square-feet to 3K: “For me personally, that's one of the most exciting parts. Student well-being and student experience, that's what we want Iowa Central Athletics to be about. We want them to have a good experience. We want them to be sad that we're only a two-year program. We want them to want to be there for four years. I think this is going to provide us another touchpoint where we can make that effect on our student-athletes and increase their happiness.” (link)

➤ The analysis found that approximately half of the evaluated institutions reported allowances for indirect costs were more than 20% above local benchmarks, while higher-tuition and selective colleges frequently estimated miscellaneous expenses well below average rates.

➤ The discrepancies stem from varying institutional methodologies for estimating off-campus housing, food, and transportation, which directly dictate financial aid limits.

➤ Hildreth Institute Managing Director Bahar Akman Imboden emphasized how these inconsistent financial projections directly impact university enrollment and retention: "There is a very legitimate concern there that higher-cost living allowance could make an institution appear less affordable and potentially discourage enrollment. A budget that is too modest can make a college appear more affordable … so a student may enroll, even take out a loan based on this initial picture, only to discover that their actual expenses are beyond their means. If those financial pressures prevent students from completing, then we risk the most troubling kind of outcome of higher education, which is debt without a degree." (link)

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