Higher Learning Advocates and 40 Organizations Celebrate Bipartisan Resolution Marking September as National Student Parent Month
Higher Learning Advocates and 40 organizations signed on to a letter to Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Tom Carper (D-DE) applauding Congress for passing the National Student Parent Month resolution. For the third consecutive year, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution designating September as a national celebration of parenting students, which acknowledges the sacrifices…
Read MoreLetter from 39 Organizations Asks ED to Reset Satisfactory Academic Progress
Higher Learning Advocates and 38 organizations submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Education in support of reforming SAP (satisfactory academic progress) for today’s students, especially returning adult students from the population of 40 million Americans with some college and no credential.
Under current SAP regulations, an individual’s academic performance indefinitely follows them even upon attempted reentry years later, which can result in prospective students being ineligible for critical student financial aid.
Read MoreLetter to Congress from 49 Organizations in Support of SNAP for Today’s Students
Higher Learning Advocates and 48 organizations submitted a letter to Congress in support of expanding SNAP benefits to help counteract the rising rate of food insecurity among today’s students in higher education. Currently, more than one-third of students struggle to afford food and groceries, but only 31% of college students who meet SNAP income limits…
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates Asks for FY 2024 Investments in Child Care, Higher Ed, Campus Mental Health Programs
Higher Learning Advocates submitted a letter outlining our support for key issues as the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education begins the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations process. HLA expressed our support for investments in crucial child care, higher education, and campus mental health programs. Specifically, we urged the inclusion of an increase…
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates Submits Letter on FY 2023 Appropriations
WASHINGTON — Today, Higher Learning Advocates (HLA) submitted a letter outlining our support for key issues as the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education begins the FY 2023 appropriations process. In the letter, HLA urged the subcommittee to consider investments in essential child care, higher education, and campus mental health programs. Read…
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates Submits Letter for NACIQI Committee Meeting
WASHINGTON — Today, Higher Learning Advocates provided comments regarding the February 23 and 24, 2022 National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) meeting. HLA recommends ways for NACIQI to utilize its oversight authority to work with the Department and accrediting agencies to help set the parameters and guidelines accreditors must use to review…
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates and 24 Partners Urge Congress to Increase Access to Public Transportation on College Campuses
WASHINGTON — Today, 24 partner organizations joined Higher Learning Advocates to send a letter to Congress to express our strong support for the Promoting Advancement for Transit Help (PATH) to College Act, introduced by Representative Lamb (D-PA), Representative Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Representative Wilson (D-FL), and Representative Katko (R-NY). The PATH to College Act would create grants for public transit providers in…
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates Submits Letter for NACIQI Committee Meeting
WASHINGTON — Today, Higher Learning Advocates submitted a letter to NACIQI regarding its upcoming committee meeting later this month. In order to ensure the quality of distance education programs, HLA recommends that NACIQI work with accreditors and that accreditors conduct a survey of institutions under their portfolio to assess how institutions handled the switch to…
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates Submits Letter on FY 2022 Appropriations
WASHINGTON — Today, Higher Learning Advocates submitted a letter outlining our support for key issues as the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education begins the FY 2022 appropriations process. HLA urged the subcommittee to consider investments in essential child care, higher education, and campus mental health programs. Read the full letter here.
Read MoreExecutive Director Julie Peller and Higher Learning Advocates’ Board Members Urge Congress to Support Students’ Immediate Needs
WASHINGTON — Executive Director Julie Peller and Higher Learning Advocates’ Board of Directors wrote to Congress to highlight the immediate needs of today’s students and to share HLA’s Playbook for Today’s Students. The Playbook, published yesterday, highlights already introduced legislation that would help widen the path to and through higher learning for all students. Read…
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