Resources
Higher Learning Advocates’ federal policy resources include the most current data on adult students, parenting students, college affordability, equity, and more. Our work has resulted in positive change for today’s students, including access to discounted broadband for Pell students, the establishment of emergency aid funds, and increased financial aid for parenting students.
101: Equity Gaps in Higher Education
What is an Educational Equity Gap? An educational equity gap is where there is a significant and persistent disparity in educational attainment between different groups of students. The equity gap that exists between white students and students of color begins in K-12 education — where 87 percent of white students graduate high school on-time compared…
Recommendations to Support Students of Color
Today, Higher Learning Advocates submitted proposals in response to a request from Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) on empowering students of color and ensuring their success in postsecondary education. Today’s students, and in particular today’s students of color, often face significant challenges…
Survey Reveals Gap Between Public and Policymakers When it Comes to Understanding Today’s College Students
Higher Learning Advocates research tests understanding of today’s college students; finding that while the pop culture archetype still holds sway with many in the general public, policymakers are attuned to demographic shifts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 18, 2018 Contact: Ted Eismeier, teismeier@higherlearningadvocates.org WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 18, 2018) — Today, Higher Learning Advocates, a bipartisan organization working…
The Glossary of Higher Education Policy
Today’s students need a bipartisan and comprehensive rewrite of the Higher Education Act that upgrades quality, strengthens affordability, and promotes the more accountable system of higher education today’s students deserve. Learn to speak higher ed wonk with our resource, “The Glossary of Higher Education Policy”, which provides definitions of commonly-referenced terms in higher ed policy.…
Comments to Senate HELP Committee on Higher Education Act Reauthorization
Higher Learning Advocates submitted comments, today, to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee leadership with recommendations on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Download the comments here.
State Profiles
State profiles feature key data points, visual infographics, and brief explanations of all 50 states, and are a quick and easy resource for policymakers, analysts and media.