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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Schools Can Drop Rescinded Gainful-Employment Rules Early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

APLU Urges House to Pass New Dreamers Act

| June 3, 2019
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) has thrown its support behind the [...] Read more

Report Targets Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality

by Pearl Stewart | May 5, 2019
African-American women are dying from preventable pregnancy-related complications at three to f [...] Read more

Education Leaders Laud Some White House HEA Principles

| March 19, 2019
Education leaders reacted positively to some of the principles outlined by the White House as C [...] Read more

Schools with Affected Research Grants Decry Shutdown

| January 3, 2019
West Virginia State University has research grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture tota [...] Read more

Scholars Mentored By Shalala Predict Support for Higher Ed and Diversity

| November 8, 2018
Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings is a proud member of “the Class of Shalala,” an informal name ad [...] Read more

Diversity in Graduate Education: Looking at — and Beyond — Admissions

Does Testing Serve a Purpose in Holistic Application Review?

Supporting Noncognitive Factors: Connecting Students with Resources, from Theory to Practice