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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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

“Nothing made me question my life choices more than knowing that my hours spent cleaning other people’s toilets to put myself through college weren’t enough—and that my hours spent earning a degree didn’t matter…they were telling me that higher education was something I simply could not afford.” In 2018 the U.S.

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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. This happens at sites around Australia (

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

If you read the national news about higher education, you might think everyone is angling for admission to the Ivy League or trying to pay off debt for degrees earned. To be sure, this summer’s Supreme Court rulings are clear signs of a badly broken higher education system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

and several other Democrats – would amend the 1965 Higher Education Act “to establish grants for tuition-free community colleges, student success grants,” and grants for HBCUs, Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), and minority-serving institutions (MSIs), according to the bill. “I Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.),

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APRIL 26, 2023

Brown also aims to build infrastructure capacity at participating HBCUs and leadership in higher education and policy development. HBCUs are a special sector in the unique mosaic of American higher education,” said Pinkard. “But

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Clatsop Community College will become the first higher education institution within the traditional homelands of the Chinook Indian Nation to grant free tuition to tribal members, The Oregonian reported. “By

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) and Results for America (RFA) released recommendations for the Department of Education (ED) to set-aside 0.5% of funds from certain Higher Education Act (HEA) programs within ED and put it towards supporting equity-focused work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

My journey from the barrios of Albuquerque to a career in higher education is a testament to the power of commitment—and coaching. This simple enrollment threshold, coupled with an increase in the Latine population in higher education, has caused the ranks of HSIs to swell — from less than 200 in 1990, when the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Department of Education that it would appeal an “unprecedented and unjust $37.7 Given the major problems that exist in higher education. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Last year, the Government Accountability Office put out a report that colleges were misleading students, understating costs, and omitting key details about federal student aid. “I The federal government should be offering commonsense resources to better prepare borrowers,” Grassley said.

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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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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Neither my parents nor my seven older siblings had pursued higher education, and I didnt know anyone in my community who did either. This support allowed me to transition from a striving single mother to a college graduate and higher education professional. college students are parents, including about 1.7

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“Veterans and their families deserve the very best education America has to offer,” said U.S. Today, we’re raising the bar for oversight and accountability for colleges and career schools that prioritize profiting off federal financial aid programs over preparing students for success in the workforce,” said U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2024

Moreover, institutions, employers and labor markets often don’t recognize the diverse and multiple avenues for acquiring knowledge and skills — such as work and military experience, community activities, short-term training, and other alternatives to traditional college programs — that take place outside of higher education.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

“I was working in a non-Indian community, not building new relationships with American Indian education professionals, and not really focusing much of my work around those topics.” The history of Native education in the United States is fraught with dispossession.

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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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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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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Washington has gone from negative to positive to negative to positive again on network neutrality, and advocates for educators say they need to see the federal government commit to making open networks a policy priority. “It

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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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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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OCTOBER 24, 2023

More state higher education systems should train boards on how to hire excellent presidents and how to partner with them to improve student outcomes and close equity gaps. 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

MARCH 25, 2024

Education Department (ED) said it has discovered a calculation error in student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them, potentially continuing delays for college applications.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Individuals committed to community colleges and the vital role they play in American higher education continue to advocate for the students and the institutions that serve them. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.” Dr. Everrett A.

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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

JUNE 20, 2024

which provided him exposure to policy networking with individuals in the federal government. Upon completion of his doctorate, Reid says he hopes to work in policy research and advocacy either with a nonprofit organization or in government. The goal is to influence decision-makers and impact lives.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The overhaul – which comes with form simplifications, different student aid measures and calculations, and expanded Pell Grant eligibility – is expected to be beneficial and to increase federal financial aid eligibility, according to a 2023 report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A lot of times you work for the government or a non-profit. Those institutions don’t receive as much research funding from the federal government. Also, graduates of such schools are not likely to receive offers for positions in academia. “If Dr. Lorelle L. “We They’re not in turn able to fund their students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The NSA is the lead agency in the federal government when it comes to any matters relating to cybersecurity,” Mac Namee said. MSU Denver’s effort to uplift underrepresented communities also extend to neurodivergent students, Mac Namee said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

In an attempt to address this disparity, the Lilly Endowment, has announced a five-year, $38,775,000 grant to the American Indian College Fund, the nation’s largest charity for Native higher education. Most receive no money from their home states, and relatively little from the federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

“Public service jobs include public education, social work, and early childhood education — it’s already in the definition. But public service requires the employers to either be a government organization, federal, state, local or other, or a 501c3 organization,” said Kantrowitz. “[ED]

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2024

Higher education leaders frequently cite the pressure they have to deal with from a caustic public, the media and even state and federal governments that are skeptical about their offerings. The post College applicants dispel 3 narratives currently hounding higher education appeared first on University Business.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 31, 2024

Colleges and universities have spent more than $1 billion on educational technology since 2020, making enormous investments focused on improving the quality of remote learning and eventually expanding into student tech, campus safety tools and much more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Racial exclusion from this nation's institutions of higher education has been the norm throughout the vast history of the U.S., There is something that we can do right now to ensure Black students and other students of color do not lose access to higher education that actually improves their lives. We can change that.

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