Executive Director Julie Peller appeared on NPR’s Marketplace to discuss Texas A&M’s $100 million scholarship fund to address diversity on its campuses. Hear the interview here.

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...

It has been inspiring and hopeful to see higher education leaders, including those who lead large community college systems, speaking out about systemic racism against the Black community and the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and several other African Americans who became the latest victims of our country’s original sin....

As Congress prepares for another round of stimulus legislation this summer, the unprecedented financial challenges confronting public colleges and universities remain a pressing issue facing lawmakers. There have been a host of disagreements on the best federal policy approach to help higher education, such as the appropriate funding levels and use...

Together, our hearts are heavy. And, together we must take action. The protests across the country are not only about the wrongful killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many others. There are long standing inequalities across many systems; health disparities resulting in higher rates of death for Black people from COVID-19...

Higher Learning Advocates stands with Black Americans in the wake of the wrongful killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, among too many others. These are neither new problems nor a new reality for Black communities across the country, including our nation’s postsecondary students.  There are long standing inequalities acros...

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...

Today’s students didn’t need a pandemic. They didn’t need the added financial pressures, their kids at home, and their lives interrupted. They also didn’t need a pandemic to know that higher education wasn’t built for too many of them, or that changes need to happen to support their success. Today’s students—adult students, student pa...

When I was asked to contribute to this blog, I wanted to sit down and write a piece full of professional assurance and effortless insight. Something pithy and quotable that captures a moment in higher education. But then I thought a little bit more about this particular moment in higher education and I am equal…

The great pandemic of 2020 has unarguably changed the way we do business and function in our day to day lives. Routines have been disrupted, and nothing feels “normal.” Higher education is no exception. After our governor issued a stay-at-home order, Colorado’s institutions quickly made the difficult decision to extend spring break; send...

WASHINGTON — Julie Peller, Executive Director of Higher Learning Advocates, made the following statement to express Higher Learning Advocates’ endorsement of the Supporting Connectivity for Higher Education Students in Need Act, introduced today by Reps. Eshoo, Matsui, Butterfield, Castro, Fudge, Blunt Rochester, and Adams, and Senators Klobuch...

The Higher Learning Advocates team sat down with José Luis Cruz, Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost at The City University of New York, to learn more about CUNY’s response to COVID-19 in New York City, previously the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S. Q: The coronavirus pandemic has affected colleges, and students, across&he...