Higher Learning Advocates and more than 70 partner organizations and individuals submitted a letter asking Congress to extend the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) with continued funding in the next appropriations legislation. Like most Americans, college students rely on internet services every day to connect with colleagues and faculty, condu...

Higher Learning Advocates and 40 organizations signed on to a letter to Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Tom Carper (D-DE) applauding Congress for passing the National Student Parent Month resolution. For the third consecutive year, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution designating September as a national celebration of parenting students,...

Higher Learning Advocates and 38 organizations submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Education in support of reforming SAP (satisfactory academic progress) for today’s students, especially returning adult students from the population of 40 million Americans with some college and no credential. Under current SAP regulations, an individua...

Higher Learning Advocates and 48 organizations submitted a letter to Congress in support of expanding SNAP benefits to help counteract the rising rate of food insecurity among today’s students in higher education. Currently, more than one-third of students struggle to afford food and groceries, but only 31% of college students who meet SNAP i...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Today, Higher Learning Advocates (HLA) submitted a letter outlining our support for key issues as the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education begins the FY 2023 appropriations process. In the letter, HLA urged the subcommittee to consider investments in essential child care, higher education, and campus mental...

WASHINGTON — Today, Higher Learning Advocates provided comments regarding the February 23 and 24, 2022 National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) meeting. HLA recommends ways for NACIQI to utilize its oversight authority to work with the Department and accrediting agencies to help set the parameters and guidelines...

WASHINGTON — Today, 24 partner organizations joined Higher Learning Advocates to send a letter to Congress to express our strong support for the Promoting Advancement for Transit Help (PATH) to College Act, introduced by Representative Lamb (D-PA), Representative Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Representative Wilson (D-FL), and Representative Katko (R-NY)...