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Higher Learning Advocates’ Policy Brief Addresses Impacts of Satisfactory Academic Progress on Today’s Students
WASHINGTON – A satisfactory academic progress, or SAP, reset can make college more affordable for low-income Americans, especially the 39 million with some college and no credential (SCNC) population, according to a new higher education policy brief by nonprofit Higher Learning Advocates (HLA). The brief, “Satisfactory Academic Progress: Making Financial Aid Work for Today’s Students,” highlights…
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates Asks for FY 2024 Investments in Child Care, Higher Ed, Campus Mental Health Programs
Higher Learning Advocates submitted a letter outlining our support for key issues as the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education begins the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations process. HLA expressed our support for investments in crucial child care, higher education, and campus mental health programs. Specifically, we urged the inclusion of an increase…
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates’ Statement on President Biden’s Budget Proposal
WASHINGTON – Higher Learning Advocates (HLA) released a statement in response to the unprecedented support for today’s students from the Administration demonstrated in the release of President Biden’s proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2024 today. “This is such an exciting development that recognizes in order for students to succeed, we must look outside the bounds…
Read MoreWho’s Afraid of Virginia Foxx?
“Representative Virginia Foxx is planning to leverage the decline in public perception of higher education to usher in a new era of stronger accountability for the nation’s colleges and universities in her role as chairwoman of the House education committee. This is ‘exactly the right time’ to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965, Foxx…
Read MoreContrasting Views on Ending Tuition-Sharing Agreements
“If officials at the U.S. Department of Education hoped the ‘listening sessions’ they arranged this week would provide consensus on whether to stop letting colleges pay outside companies a share of tuition revenue when they help recruit students, they were surely disappointed. Like just about every policy discussion in Washington these days, this one found…
Read MoreState and Federal Policy Round Up
“Listen in as state and federal policy experts weigh in on the major themes from 2022 and expectations for 2023. Julie Peller from Higher Learning Advocates walks through the major movements at the federal level and Paola Santana from Lumina Foundation discusses state-level priorities for the upcoming year. Catch up with state leaders from Arkansas,…
Read MoreIs For-Profit Higher Education on Its Last Legs? Key Podcast
“Does the possible sale of the University of Phoenix to a public university system signal the demise of the for-profit higher education sector that Phoenix once epitomized? This week’s episode of The Key analyzes the implications of recent news that a nonprofit affiliated with the University of Arkansas system might buy the former giant among for-profit…
Read MorePolicy Changes to Increase Access to Higher Ed
“Higher education is currently forcing many adult learners to jump through hoops to complete their degrees. Although many of these nontraditional students can be successful, colleges and universities should still meet adult learners where they are, as higher ed faces dwindling enrollment and a workforce that is relying less on employees with four-year degrees. Higher…
Read MoreEducation Department Plans to Publish List of Low-Performing Programs
“Nearly a decade after the Obama administration broached the idea of rating colleges and universities, the Biden administration is ready to take another crack at the historically fraught concept. This time around, the administration is planning to publish a list of programs that are considered to have a low financial value to students and taxpayers.…
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates’ Statement on the Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill
WASHINGTON — Today, Congress passed the fiscal year 2023 omnibus appropriations bill, including several increases to critical investments for today’s students pursuing higher education. The omnibus spending bill includes a $500 increase to the maximum Pell Grant, more funding to support HBCUs, HSIs, and the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Campus Suicide Prevention Grants, and…
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