Posted on July 24 2017
Hoping to fend off a legal challenge to a program that has spared nearly 800,000 young immigrants from deportation, two veteran senators made a long-shot appeal to President Trump on Thursday to su...
Posted on July 24 2017
About 75,000 people who applied for New York's first-in-the-nation tuition-free college program are finding out whether they will start the fall semester without a tuition bill to pay.
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Posted on July 21 2017
Student aid advocates didn’t find much to like in a House education appropriations bill released last week -- lawmakers removed billions from the Pell Grant surplus while taking no significan...
On Wednesday, a coalition of 20 state attorneys general sent a letter to U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos expressing concern over reports that the agency is preparing to roll back important pro...
The House Veterans Affairs Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved a package of legislation to update the Post-9/11 GI Bill. The measure would extend veterans education benefits from the curren...
House appropriators on Wednesday approved a FY 2018 budget resolution, setting the stage for a massive tax overhaul and $200 billion in cuts from mandatory programs, Inside Higher Ed reported....
Posted on July 20 2017
An overwhelming majority of colleges and universities did not change priority aid deadlines in response to an earlier financial aid cycle last year, according to a surveyof member institutions...
Posted on July 19 2017
The 2018 budget resolution released by Republican lawmakers Tuesday claims the Pell Grant program is on shaky financial ground and calls for reforms to ensure grants "go to students with the m...
Posted on July 19 2017
Tennessee Republican Phil Roe, the chairman of the House veterans affairs committee, will amend an update to the Post-9/11 GI Bill to include full restoration of benefits for veterans affected by t...
Posted on July 19 2017
It has become trendy to predict that higher education is on the verge of a major collapse, what with enrollments falling as loan debt and rising tuition cause students and families to ask harder qu...