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UNCF: $1 Billion for HBCUs, TCUs, MSIs in Federal Coronavirus Stimulus Package

by Shailaja Neelakantan | March 25, 2020 Congress and the White House have agreed to provide $1 billion in emergency funds to historical Read more

Letter Requests Progress on Small Business Administration’s Outreach to HBCUs

by Jessica Ruf | February 7, 2020
Five members of Congress has signed a bipartisan letter to the Small Business Administration& [...] Read more

Un-Civil Rights: America’s Fear of Diversity in 2020

by Emil Guillermo | January 12, 2020
Have the war protests started? Are your students beginning to wonder about military service and [...] Read more

Impeachment Pattern: Diversity vs. The White Men

by Emil Guillermo | December 15, 2019
The biggest news of the day in our country — no matter what your individual concerns or endea [...] Read more

Trump Backs Protesting Students….In China

by Emil Guillermo | December 3, 2019
The protests that delayed this year’s Harvard-Yale game were enough to break some news the we [...] Read more

Diversity, Ukraine, and Impeachment

by Emil Guillermo | November 16, 2019
There’s a diversity angle in the impeachment hearings you may have overlooked.It’s not just [...] Read more

Higher Education Has Changed. The Law Must Change with It

by Nancy Conneely | November 12, 2019
The Higher Education Act (HEA), the law that helps students finance their postsecondary educati [...] Read more

Free College Education Talk Is Cheap, Invest Now to Diversify and Secure the Future of Elite Colleges

by Susan Poser | October 29, 2019
Some of the Democratic candidates for president spend a lot of time talking about free college [...] Read more

Longest Serving Black Congressman Dies at Age 90

by Sara Weissman | October 28, 2019
Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. – a Michigan Democrat and the longest-serving Black congres [...] Read more

Improvements to FAFSA Eagerly Anticipated

by Lois Elfman | September 19, 2019
Speaking at the National College Access Network (NCAN) conference earlier this week. Mark A. Br [...] Read more

Higher Education Organizations Urge Congress to Pass the FUTURE Act

by Sara Weissman | September 4, 2019
A group of higher education organizations have thrown their support behind the Fostering Underg [...] Read more

DeVos Wants Income Verification Reviewed for Loan-Repayment Plans

| July 26, 2019
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has issued a statement calling for a comprehensive revi [...] Read more

New Bill Addresses Barriers to Upward Bound Grants

by Sara Weissman | July 19, 2019
The U.S. Department of Education rejected grants from one of the TRIO programs, Upward Bound, a [...] Read more

Schools Can Drop Rescinded Gainful-Employment Rules Early

| July 8, 2019
Dr. Charlie Eaton at the University of California – Merced and Dr. Marybeth Gasman at the Uni [...] Read more

New House Legislation Invests in Worker Education, Training

| June 19, 2019
U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has introduced legislation to [...] Read more

Three More Big Diversity-related Questions resulting from COVID-19

Part II: Three More Big Diversity-related Questions resulting from COVID-19