Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

Amy Ellen Duke-Benfield, managing director of policy and research at Higher Learning Advocates, a bipartisan nonprofit that works to improve outcomes for students, said the federal government is lagging behind state leaders, who already have been talking about how to define a high-quality postsecondary program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

From 2020 to 2022, the federal government distributed nearly $80 billion to higher education institutions through three rounds of HEERF funding, with community colleges receiving $25 billion of that total. The 39 institutions analyzed in the study received about $765 million for direct student aid and $1.9

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Washington Update Key Discussion Points: Higher Education Act 2019 Changes : Emphasis on the need for a comprehensive review of the act, touching on Title II (teacher education), Title IV (federal student financial aid), and Title IX (campus security). Borrower defense to repayment, school closures and a number of other issues.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Abuses at IEC schools In February, the Department of Education terminated financial aid eligibility to another IEC-owned chain called Florida Career College, and the school closed. taxpayers who support the hundreds of millions in federal financial aid that have flowed to ACCSC schools.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 27, 2025

This massive program encompasses Pell Grants, federal student loans, and work-study opportunities that directly enable student access and persistence. Financial Impact Scale The sheer financial magnitude of Title IV makes its disruption particularly consequential. In 2021 alone, 10.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

need to recognize that colleges arent the enemy, as Vice President JD Vance called them in a 2021 speech to the National Conservatism Conference, and instead colleges and government need to work together for real solutions for student success. We need to fix what is happening on our college campuses.We

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 22, 2025

It is almost entirely dependent on federal government largesse. Some of those former employees also spoke with federal investigators. The Times speculated that the high volume of gifts was driven by corporate Americas eagerness to win the presidents favor. USA Today reported in 2022 that the U.S.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 2, 2024

. — Last month, the Department of Education took another step to hold accountable the non-profit Center for Excellence in Higher Education, whose schools, the largest of which was Independence University, shut down in 2021. Senior Democrats in Congress, including senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have called on the U.S.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2025

It also announced it would seek to ban Andrew Clark, the CEO of Ashfords demised parent company, Zovio, from contracting with the federal government. Ashford has been sued or investigated by other federal and state agencies, including the U.S. Clark abruptly left the company in 2021.

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