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Students

Dillard President: What President Trump Needs to Hear

We’ve seen federal and state divestment in education, making the idea of education as the path to the American Dream more of a hallucination for the poor and disenfranchised.

February 27, 2017

Students

Report: Financial Pressure Swamping Community College Students

Despite relatively low costs, a Center for Community College Student Engagement report found that nearly half of all students said they were considering dropping out due to financial pressures.

February 20, 2017

Students

Inmates, Parolees can take Advantage of Pilot Program

TULSA, Okla. ― Hundreds of Arkansas inmates and parolees are participating in a three-year federal pilot program that lets state and federal prisoners use financial aid to pay for college. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the program reverses a 1994 congressional ban on students in federal and state prisons from being eligible for Pell grants. Pell […]

October 9, 2016

Students

Experts: Direct More Institutional Aid to Low-income Students

Colleges and universities should rethink the way they distribute institutional aid in order to matriculate more students who lack the means to pay.

July 21, 2016

African-American

Education Department Providing Second Chance to Prisoners

The U.S. Department of Education announced a new development in its efforts to combat recidivism and reform the criminal justice system.

June 23, 2016

Students

Community College Leaders Seek to Maximize Potential Benefits from Reauthorized Higher Education Act

Community college leaders met in Washington to discuss legislative priorities for the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.

June 6, 2016

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Obama Administration Seeks to Expand Pell Grants

The Obama Administration wants more students who receive Pell Grants to graduate from college as quickly as possible and is proposing to pay more to help make that happen.

January 19, 2016

Latinx

Economic Crisis May Sink Education in Puerto Rico

The economic crisis in Puerto Rico has caused some leaders to consider making significant cuts in education.

September 29, 2015

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Prison Ed Program Based on Second Chances

“To have a second chance is something that should be part and parcel of who we are as American people,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said.

August 2, 2015

Community Colleges

Philadelphia Latest City to Offer Free Community College Tuition

The city of Philadelphia just joined the vanguard of states and cities implementing free tuition at local community colleges.

April 7, 2015

International

Panel: Undocumented Students Still Stressed Out

The temporary reprieve from deportation for certain undocumented students has helped, but the students still suffer disproportionately high levels of anxiety under the tenuous arrangement.

March 31, 2015

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Department of Education Unveils ‘Framework’ for College Rating System

One higher education leader said a “glaring omission” from the framework was any mention of race and ethnicity.

December 18, 2014