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Tag: Congress: Page 2
Latinx
Ensure Emergency Grants to Students Aren’t Taxed: Higher Ed Groups
A host of higher education groups, including the American Council on Education, have written to congressional leaders asking them to ensure that the emergency student financial aid grants authorized by the coronavirus stimulus package, or the CARES Act, are not subject to taxation. Under the act, $6.28 billion was awarded to college and universities “to […]
April 21, 2020
COVID-19
Large-Scale Debt Forgiveness May Benefit High Income Borrowers: Higher Ed Associations
The American Council on Education and 31 other higher education institutions on Monday wrote to Congress saying it should be careful pursuing any large-scale student debt forgiveness measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic because they may end up benefitting high income and other borrowers who don’t require such help. “… any debt relief program […]
April 20, 2020
COVID-19
Cancel Student Debt of Frontline Healthcare Workers, Say Some
A Congresswoman and a professor emerita at Indiana University have called for canceling frontline healthcare workers’ student debt, saying they are doing extraordinary service during the coronavirus pandemic. Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney said on Thursday she plans to introduce a bill, Student Debt Forgiveness for Frontline Health Care Workers Act, proposing the elimination of graduate […]
April 12, 2020
Students
Report: Congress Needs to do a Lot More to Ensure Educational Equity During the Pandemic
To help small businesses, higher education institutions and individuals recover from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Congress recently passed a $2 trillion stimulus package.
April 7, 2020
African-American
UNCF: $1 Billion for HBCUs, TCUs, MSIs in Federal Coronavirus Stimulus Package
Congress and the White House have agreed to provide $1 billion in emergency funds to historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and universities, and other minority serving institutions to help them cope with the coronavirus pandemic, said the United Negro College Fund in a statement on Wednesday.
March 25, 2020
HBCUs
Letter Requests Progress on Small Business Administration’s Outreach to HBCUs
Five members of Congress has signed a bipartisan letter to the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) associate administrator, Allen Gutierrez, requesting that the agency report its progress in implementing last year’s outreach goals to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In April 2019, Gutierrez testified on how SBA could provide better entrepreneurial services to HBCUs in […]
February 7, 2020
African-American
Un-Civil Rights: America’s Fear of Diversity in 2020
Have the war protests started? Are your students beginning to wonder about military service and the importance of a draft? Our country’s constitutional crisis seems to be coming to a head as we deal with a president who insists he can do anything he wants.
January 12, 2020
Opinion
Impeachment Pattern: Diversity vs. The White Men
The biggest news of the day in our country — no matter what your individual concerns or endeavors — is impeachment. And if the support for it isn’t diverse along party, race and class lines, then we definitely need a check-up as to what it means to be an American living in the model democracy.
December 15, 2019
Opinion
Trump Backs Protesting Students….In China
The protests that delayed this year’s Harvard-Yale game were enough to break some news the weekend before Thanksgiving. Climate change is a big deal. And if the nation’s top schools with a combined endowment worth $70 billion did something about it, maybe higher ed could set an example for the country, if not the world.
December 3, 2019
Opinion
Diversity, Ukraine, and Impeachment
There’s a diversity angle in the impeachment hearings you may have overlooked.It’s not just about Trump. It’s about a proud people who have overcome mass starvation and invasions for centuries. And they continue to struggle to be free from tyranny and corruption.
November 16, 2019
Students
Higher Education Has Changed. The Law Must Change with It
The Higher Education Act (HEA), the law that helps students finance their postsecondary education, has not been reauthorized since 2008. A lot has changed in the last 11 years, including higher education, and the law that was passed in 2008 is no longer responsive to the challenges facing today’s students.
November 12, 2019
Students
Free College Education Talk Is Cheap, Invest Now to Diversify and Secure the Future of Elite Colleges
Some of the Democratic candidates for president spend a lot of time talking about free college education. This is a complicated and important issue, as too many students who should be in college cannot afford to attend, and many of them come from underrepresented groups. Low- and middle-income underrepresented students who are able to attend college are often supported by generous scholarships from elite schools that are under huge pressure to diversify their student bodies.
October 29, 2019
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