Higher Education Whisperer

JUNE 2, 2023

GovHack AGM OnlineThis is to suggest GovHack hackerthons be used to quickly get the new federal government internal consultants up to speed. GovHack is a non-profit organization which organizes an annual hackerthon using government data sources.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Federal government overhaul to remove close to $20bn of student debt for 3 million Australians Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast All Australians will have their student debt cut by 20% next financial year, as part of a major federal government overhaul designed to boost access to education and address “intergenerational unfairness”. (..)

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 25, 2025

Federal Government Reverses SEVIS Terminations, Restores Visas for Some Students Ashley Mowreader Fri, 04/25/2025 - 01:24 PM The reversal follows a series of court rulings that order the federal government to restore students status in the SEVIS database. Byline(s) Ashley Mowreader

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 30, 2024

New America Americans still generally value higher education and support more investment from the state and federal government to make it more affordable, according to a new report from New America. And they want to see more investment from the state and federal government to make college more affordable.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For eligible students, The America’s College Promise Act of 2023 would waive two years-worth of community and technical college tuition and fees, and have the federal government be responsible for the majority of funding (80-100%) for the endeavor.

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MAY 8, 2023

The Chinook Nation – its traditional territory includes southwest Washington and northwest Oregon – has not been recognized by the federal government, leaving its 3,000 members out of grant and scholarship offerings for the recognized tribes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act. Yet there is an enormous SNAP gap in program utilization.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

But the historical record is replete with examples of uneven resources, a challenging relationship with the federal government, and the inability of many HBCUs to get before the philanthropic community to request the kind of support that builds financial strength.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep. Now Congress and federal agencies have a full picture of the problem. Tax dollars fund federal financial aid at these schools, and we shouldn’t allow that investment to be undermined by hunger.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s vital that we build a strong talent pool to fill critical roles within the federal government and that reflect the future workforce of this nation.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The federal government, on the other hand, uses a straightforward numerical definition to classify as Hispanic Serving Institutions any two- or four-year nonprofit degree-granting college or university where enrollment is at least 25% Latine. But enrollment is just the first step in the journey toward servingness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 27, 2023

it is baffling that the federal government has chosen to target a Christian university that is addressing those issues in very positive ways," the university said in a statement. Department of Education that it would appeal an “unprecedented and unjust $37.7 Given the major problems that exist in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 25, 2024

Justin Draeger A vendor working for the federal government incorrectly calculated a financial aid formula for more than 200,000 students, the department noted. The information was sent to colleges to help them prepare financial aid packages but now needs to be recalculated amid the backlog of other financial aid applications.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Leaders will speak on the connection between book bans, anti-CRT or “anti-woke” laws, and the suppression of other civil liberties and social justice values as part of a coordinated far-right effort to extinguish civil rights at all levels of federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It’s our job at VA and across the federal government to deliver on that promise, making sure that veterans and their families not only have access to affordable education through the GI Bill – but also that they are protected from education fraud and abuse. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

The federal government should be offering commonsense resources to better prepare borrowers,” Grassley said. “I often hear from Iowa families who are frustrated and confused by the complex student loan borrowing process. So much of the student debt conversation focuses on repaying debt.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Our federal government invests billions of dollars every year in higher education but often isn’t sure if those dollars have achieved their intended impact,” said David Medina , RFA co-founder and chief operating officer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Researchers from the University of Oregon (UO) have earned a $3 million grant from the federal government to help tackle global warming, while incorporating the insights of rural and Indigenous communities which are often left out of decisions about what happens around them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

Lhamon, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in a letter to the school’s president, Dr. Linda Livingstone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

The exception that proves the rule, Professor Jeremy Bearer-Friend has pointed out that unlike every other part of the federal government, the IRS makes virtually no effort to identify — much less to prevent — racial discrimination in its enforcement efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Simmons will deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor from the federal government for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Dr. Ruth J. Simmons The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) lecture – “Facing History to Find a Better Future” – will take place 7 p.m.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 26, 2025

Outspoken Fascism Scholars Leave Yale for Canada Ryan Quinn Wed, 03/26/2025 - 06:34 PM Jason Stanley, decrying Columbia Universitys capitulation to the federal government, is leaving for the University of Toronto. So is Marci Shore, who said she fears civil war. Timothy Snyder says his motivations were largely personal.

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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For every dollar the federal government invests in childcare for single-mother students, research shows a projected return of 430 percent in increased tax contributions and reduced public assistance. Single mothers who earn an associate degree, for example, see about $256,000 more in lifetime earnings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

which provided him exposure to policy networking with individuals in the federal government. In addition to being a graduate research assistant at Texas, he was part of the Graduate Archer Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C., He currently is also a graduate research assistant with the Center for Community College Student Engagement.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 18, 2025

Every American Has a Stake in Columbias Fate Elizabeth Redden Tue, 03/18/2025 - 03:00 AM The federal government is trying to put the entire private university into a state of receivership, Austin Sarat writes. Byline(s) Austin Sarat

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2024

Local, state and federal governments can collect more accurate data they can then use to create policies and dedicate resources to support education and workforce development that meets the needs of their industries and residents.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The task force, a group of lawmakers from 32 states, wants states and the federal government to work together more to make college a better return on investment. The cost of college continues to rise. The student debt crisis has gained national infamy. A bachelor’s degree no longer guarantees a stable career.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Even the federal government should get in the leadership development game, challenging and supporting states to develop a new generation of highly effective, diverse presidents. Universities need to reorient doctoral programs, teaching less theory and technical skills and more about how to lead scaled student success reforms.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

The federal government made various promises about educating tribespeople, but was more focused on assimilation, an approach nicknamed “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.” The history of Native education in the United States is fraught with dispossession.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The federal government and national, regional, and local organizations have weighed in, too. There are many responses to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. People are already declaring a “post-affirmative action era” while still weighing the scales of benefit from new approaches to equity, justice… and admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Those institutions don’t receive as much research funding from the federal government. “We need to better resource the institutions where these students are going—the non-profit institutions that are not top tier R1s,” she added. They’re not in turn able to fund their students.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

Nearly 30 percent of borrowers were past due on their student loan payments in January of this year, a few months after the federal government lifted the pause on payments, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found in a new report.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 14, 2024

But, the federal government has no say in whether an individual college is accredited, experts say. That decision is up to the accreditors.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

As concerns about college affordability and the economic burden of student loan debt grow, some experts say it might be time not only to boost the budget for federal financial aid but also to go back to the drawing board on how that aid is allocated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries.

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