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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. In addition, students who come from low-income families, which allowed them to qualify to receive a Pell Grant, will have debt reduced $20,000,” Biden said in August. million contract.

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Death to DEI: Practical advice to higher education leaders during the rollback

University Business

In the wake of George Floyds murder in 2020, your college or university may have established thoughtful new diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and initiatives. Since then, attacks on DEI initiatives at colleges and universities have intensified. Should you cancel all DEI-related programming?

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McMahon: Funding is safe but mass layoffs are “first step” to full closure

University Business

(LATEST UPDATE: March 12) Student loans and Pell Grants are safe, but this week’s mass firings at the Department of Education represent the “first step” of President Donald Trump’s plan to shut down the agency, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says. Department of Education and the K12 and higher education systems.

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DEI remains a big target as Trump makes more cuts

University Business

19) Over $1 billion worth of contracts with education nonprofits have gone up in flames over the past 10 days, and public institutions may soon need to close DEI-related programming, according to another wave of executive orders from President Donald Trump. (LATEST UPDATE: Feb. DOGE, DOE cut nearly $2 billion in funding On Feb.

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