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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Addresses HBCU Leaders About Expired Funding

by Sara Weissman | October 10, 2019 U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos sent a letter to leaders of historically Black colleges Read more

Holifield Works to Advance Interests of HBCUs Within Trump Administration

by Jamal Watson | August 9, 2019
When Johnathan M. Holifield talks about future opportunities for HBCUs, he inevitably finds a w [...] 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

DeVos Discusses Range of Topics at EWA Gathering

| May 6, 2019
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos addressed topics ranging from teacher strikes to the re [...] Read more

RISE Conference Engages Hot Education Topics

| April 11, 2019
Hot education topics ranging from workforce relevance and measuring student outcomes to school [...] Read more

Lauded Special Olympics Program To Continue with Federal Funding

| March 29, 2019
Unified Champion Schools, a Special Olympics educational program that has been saved from the f [...] Read more

Federal Education Department Releases Budget Proposal

| March 11, 2019
College funding, school safety and school choice are items addressed in the U.S. Department of [...] Read more

DeVos Gives Personal Donation to TMCF

by Monica Levitan | February 20, 2019
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has given a personal donation to the Thurgood Marshall [...] 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

House Education and Workforce Chair Discusses Priorities

| January 28, 2019
In a half-hour session Monday afternoon that seemed to pass faster than a New York minute, U.S [...] Read more

Higher Ed Observers Slam Federal Reprieve for For-Profit Accreditor

| November 27, 2018
While a major accreditor of for-profit schools has won a conditional reprieve from Secretary of [...] Read more

Department of Education Launches New App Making it “Easier” to Fill out FAFSA

by Monica Levitan | November 14, 2018
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Senate Education Committee chairman Lamar Alexander [...] Read more

Former NC Governor Named Chair of the National Assessment Governing Board

by Monica Levitan | November 4, 2018
Dr. Beverly Perdue, the former governor of North Carolina, was recently named chair of the Nati [...] 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