“Public colleges and universities were designed to serve the educational needs of those who live in the state. To uphold that mission, some schools and states set enrollment caps or limit the number of out-of-state students that can be admitted each year. There are still incentives for public universities to accept out-of-state students, howe...

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In the wake of two years that have upended the financial and educational well-being of millions of students, emergency aid has become a watchword of the day for many higher education institutions. Once thought of as “point solutions” used by a relatively small number of colleges and universities, cash assistance programs are now increasingly co...

Teen Vogue by Rainesford Stauffer “Cradle to College is a three-part series examining the realities that teen parents face in trying to access four-year college — from lack of structural support to stigma — and how they plan to shift the notion of what a “traditional” college experience is, and who “average” studen...

WASHINGTON — Today, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations package for Fiscal Year 2022. Higher Learning Advocates—a bipartisan, nonprofit organization that advocates for policy that reflect the changing demographics of today’s students—has released the following statement attributed to its executive director Julie Peller: “An e...

While the fate of the Build Back Better Act is currently unclear, there are parts of the proposed legislation that could survive in some form. One important part of the proposal is the College Completion Fund, a fund that could provide as much as $550 million for scaling evidence-based programs to improve retention and completion…...

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...

Today’s students can not succeed in school if they are hungry, homeless, or lack access to critical supports like child care and reliable transportation. Today, the Biden Harris Administration made a historic commitment to today’s students by enabling colleges and universities to use pandemic recovery funds to meet students’ critical needs. T...

In early 2020, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education released its fourth strategic plan, Reaching Higher in a State of Change, which provides a vision and a blueprint focused on pathways for student success from the recent high school graduate to the returning adult—ensuring greater economic opportunity and a stronger Indiana. The Commissio...

WASHINGTON — Today, Representative Lamb (D-PA), Representative Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Representative Wilson (FL-24), Representative Katko (NY-24), and Senator Casey (D-PA) introduced the ‘Providing Assistance for Transit Help (PATH) to College Act’’, which would take important steps toward ensuring today’s students have adequate access to pu...

WASHINGTON — Today, the president signed the Infrastructure and JOBS Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework, into law, a bill that includes critical provisions to ensure that today’s low-income college students continue to have access to broadband internet. Higher Learning Advocates’ Executive Director Julie Peller made t...

The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the vital role that working people play in our nation and economy. Working people prepare hospital equipment and treat patients; they manufacture and distribute essential goods; they keep the internet and other critical utilities operating.  While scores of working people have kept our country running during the pa...