What Works for Today’s Students: Connecting Students to Means-Tested Benefits
Students facing basic needs insecurities are significantly less likely to leave college without completing an associate’s or bachelor’s degree. Today’s students show a great deal of resilience in the face of adversity—but succeeding in an academic environment is extremely difficult without access to basic needs, like food and shelter. The federal government has various programs…
Read More101: Students & Means Tested Programs
Every year, more than one million students drop out—70 percent do so because of financial insecurity, which is disproportionately felt by low-income students. That’s where means-tested benefit programs and income supports can help. Means-tested federal and state programs help millions of low-income Americans access housing, food, health care, child care, and more. But the myriad…
Read MorePolicy Toolkit 3.0
Today’s students are more diverse than any previous generation of college students: they’re diverse in age, race, and income level. They’re more mobile and may not live on campus. Most participate in the workforce, either full-time or part-time. Work and family responsibilities beyond the classroom—whether that is on-campus or online—often compete with the educational goals…
Read MoreToday’s Students Mental Health Factsheet
Many of today’s students face mental health challenges while in college, but the COVID-19 pandemic has made matters worse. Check out HLA’s new factsheet to learn more about today’s students’ mental health challenges while in college. View the factsheet here.
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates Submits FY21 Priorities to House LHHS Committee
WASHINGTON (March 23, 2020) — Today, Higher Learning Advocates submitted testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) Appropriations Subcommittee addressing funding for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Education for FY 2021. Higher Learning Advocates urged the subcommittee to make significant investments…
Read MoreWhat Works for Today’s Students—Microgrants
Currently, only about half of students who enroll in college graduate within eight years of beginning their studies. Microgrants can help to increase this number. Download our new policy brief, What Works for Today’s Students—Microgrants, to learn more about how microgrants are working to support today’s students, the challenges institutions encounter in funding emergency grant…
Read MoreLetter to House Education and Labor Committee: The College Affordability Act
On October 28, Higher Learning Advocates sent a letter to leaders of the House Education and Labor Committee on the College Affordability Act. Read the full letter here.
Read MoreLetter to House Education and Labor Committee: HEA Policy Recommendations
On October 28, Higher Learning Advocates, along with ten other members of the Today’s Students Coalition, sent a letter to leaders of the House Education and Labor Committee and the Senate HELP Committee to detail the Coalition’s HEA policy recommendations. Read the full letter here.
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates Submits Comment on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), SNAP
Higher Learning Advocates submitted a comment on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), the "Revision of Categorical Eligibility in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)." Download the complete comment here.
Read MoreComments 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.
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