Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 9, 2023
No Pell Grants. Constant threats of deportation for themselves and family members, limited options for earning income, lack of accessible healthcare, and ineligibility for driver’s licenses in some states are ever-present hurdles. On top of that, undocumented students are ineligible for any federal financial aid. No student loans.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
APRIL 3, 2023
The department wrote a Dear Colleague letter in February that said any entity involved with the administration of an institution’s federal student aid is considered a third-party servicer, which puts them under the department’s oversight authority and subjects the companies’ contracts with institutions to regular audits.
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University Business
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Any program, contract or grant involving government dollars can fall under the FCA. Though healthcare fraud is the largest type of FCA fraud, this article focuses on non-healthcare fraud in higher education: research and grant fraud, unlawful recruiting, failure to disclose ties to foreign governments, and cybersecurity failure fraud.
SRHE
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
In 1962 a mandatory grant was introduced to pay for the education of ‘all those qualified by ability and attainment and who wished to do so’, in the words of the Robbins Report (1963). While this public-mindedness feels inevitable in the spirit of post-war optimism, at the time it was not uncontested.
University Business
MARCH 24, 2025
The Office of Management and Budget also unfroze federal grant programs following intervention from state lawmakers. Institutions should also inform lawmakers about how the loss of federal contracts and grants hurts the wider community, Mitchell said.
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