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Higher Learning Advocates Submit Comments on Improving Students’ Access to Broadband Internet

WASHINGTON — Today, Higher Learning Advocates provided feedback on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) plans for the implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). Higher Learning Advocates was pleased to submit comments for review, particularly as affordability of broadband, accessibility of broa...
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Higher Learning Advocates & Sixty Partner Organizations Urge Congress to Include the Supporting Connectivity for Higher Education Students in Need Act in the Next Relief Package

WASHINGTON — Sixty-one organizations came together today to urge Congress to include the Supporting Connectivity for Higher Education Students in Need Act in the next relief package. The Supporting Connectivity for Higher Education Students in Need Act,  which would provide college and university students with much needed internet connectivity s...
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Higher Learning Advocates & 50 Organizations Submit Testimony on CCAMPIS to Senate LHHS Subcommittee

WASHINGTON — Higher Learning Advocates and fifty partner organizations submitted testimony on the Child Care Access Means Parents in Schools (CCAMPIS) program to the Senate LHHS Subcommittee. Specifically, the organizations expressed their strong support for increasing funding for CCAMPIS to $200 million, the amount needed to provide child care s...
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Today’s Adult Students

The image of today’s students no longer fits the image from decades ago. Today’s students aren’t just fresh-faced 18-year-old teenagers who recently graduated from high school. In fact, 37 percent of today’s students are older than 25. Many adult students have different responsibilities—including work and family—on their path to a degre...
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Higher Learning Advocates’ Statement of Support for Protect VETS Act

WASHINGTON (November 14, 2019) — Julie Peller, Executive Director of Higher Learning Advocates, made the following statement to express Higher Learning Advocates’ support for the Protect Veterans’ Education and Taxpayer Spending (VETS) Act introduced by Senators Tom Carper (D-DE), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), James Lankford (R-OK), and Jon Tester...
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How Can We Better Support Latinx Students?

My mother was raised in a low-income Mexican-American family. With this background she never imagined college as an option for herself. However, when she was a teenager, my mother applied for a position in the air traffic control industry as a part of a minority recruitment initiative. The initiative offered to train minority individuals without&he...
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New Policy Framework: Shift Quality Assurance from Compliance to Continuous Improvement

WASHINGTON, D.C (DECEMBER 18, 2018) — Today, Higher Learning Advocates and the Center for American Progress released a new framework for rethinking higher education accountability and quality assurance. It outlines principles for accountability to better protect students and taxpayers through a gatekeeping function, while also encouraging mor...
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NASFAA: How to Get Student Loan Repayment Rates Right for Accountability

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