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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

UNCF Creates HBCU Guide to Political Candidate’s Policies

by Sarah Wood | October 12, 2019
As a way for students and faculty members from historically Black colleges and universities (HB [...] Read more

New Coalition Highlights the Need For Student Voices in Higher Education Policy

by Sara Weissman | September 29, 2019
Today’s Students Coalition, a group of higher education advocacy organizations born in August [...] Read more

Libertarian Think Tank Hosts Panel on Higher Education Act Renewal

by Sara Weissman | September 18, 2019
Conservative authors discussed Higher Education Act renewal on a panel hosted by the Cato Insti [...] Read more

Proposed Amendment Scrutinizes For-Profit Schools Targeting Veterans

by Sara Weissman | September 10, 2019
Florida Democrat Rep. Dr. Donna Shalala proposed an amendment to the annual defense spending bi [...] Read more

Growing Proportion of Part-Time Faculty Portends Problems

| July 30, 2019
The decline in tenured and tenure-track college and university faculty and the increase in nont [...] Read more

New Coalition Advocates for College Equity, Affordability

| July 25, 2019
A new collaborative, The College Affordability Coalition, has formed to advocate for needed fed [...] Read more

Study: Cutting Federal Graduate Loans Would Harm Black Students, HBCUs

| July 22, 2019
Cuts to federal student loans for graduate and professional students could be devastating to Af [...] Read more

Groups Stick Up for Grad Students in Letter to Lawmakers

| July 16, 2019
A laundry list of 32 higher education interests, student organizations and science societies th [...] Read more

Higher Ed Civil Rights Coalition Releases Equity Prescription

by David Pluviose | July 10, 2019
The members of the Higher Ed Civil Rights Coalition have released a series of 10 policy briefs [...] Read more

Study: Young Americans’ Wages Same As Decade Ago

| June 4, 2019
Adjusted for inflation, young Americans are earning the exact wages their counterparts were pai [...] Read more

Promise Programs Boost College Access, But More Support Needed for Graduation

| April 27, 2019
As Congress takes up myriad issues relevant to upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education [...] Read more

Doing Better By Students When a College Closes

| April 23, 2019
Although college closures are not common occurrences, numerous factors suggest a continuing up [...] Read more

Legislative Summit Urges Community College Leaders to Advocate

| February 12, 2019
There’s a lot of important legislative and policy change afoot in higher education in 2019, a [...] Read more

Largest-Ever Congressional Black Caucus Sworn In

| January 3, 2019
The swearing-in Thursday of the 116th Congress included the largest class of the Congressional [...] Read more

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

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