Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic dawned in Spring 2020, the federal government granted institutions of higher education a series of waivers and flexibilities that allowed them to continue functioning under radically different conditions.

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Robert Kelchen

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

During the last three weeks, I have thought a lot about the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. Im now a veteran department head at a much better resourced university, but higher education is facing more uncertainty now than since March 2020 due to the bulldozer of the Trump administrations attempted and proposed changes.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 27, 2025

Title IV's Office of Federal Student Aid received the largest departmental budget allocation - over $68 billion, with $20 billion promised for distribution during 2025 4. This represents the largest financial relationship between the federal government and higher education institutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The discussion highlights the Biden-Harris administration’s active role in Negotiated Rulemaking since late 2020, bringing about a comprehensive set of regulations affecting higher education. The Higher Education Act (HEA) was signed into law in 1965 and is supposed to be renewed every five years.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 28, 2025

Department of Education, one of the federal governments smallest Cabinet-level agencies, operates programs across every level of education. In fact, less than 8% of public school revenue came from federal agencies, including the Education Department, before COVID-19 reached the U.S.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2020, a Colorado court found the company had engaged in systematic deceptive practices. Department of Education to investigate Keiser’s schools, which have received billions in taxpayer-funded student financial aid. Like Grand Canyon, CEHE’s abuses were by no means limited to the terms of the non-profit conversion.

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University Business

MARCH 12, 2025

” The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) has said that the department needs to be reorganized for greater accountability but that reductions should be made strategically. In recent days, the Trump administration has acted in other ways to reduce the size of the federal government.

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