Higher Learning Advocates Asks for FY 2024 Investments in Child Care, Higher Ed, Campus Mental Health Programs

student looking at U.S. Congress Capitol Building FY 24 Appropriations

Higher Learning Advocates submitted a letter outlining our support for key issues as the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education begins the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations process. HLA expressed our support for investments in crucial child care, higher education, and campus mental health programs. Specifically, we urged the inclusion of an increase…

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Foxx?

“Representative Virginia Foxx is planning to leverage the decline in public perception of higher education to usher in a new era of stronger accountability for the nation’s colleges and universities in her role as chairwoman of the House education committee. This is ‘exactly the right time’ to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965, Foxx…

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Contrasting Views on Ending Tuition-Sharing Agreements

“If officials at the U.S. Department of Education hoped the ‘listening sessions’ they arranged this week would provide consensus on whether to stop letting colleges pay outside companies a share of tuition revenue when they help recruit students, they were surely disappointed. Like just about every policy discussion in Washington these days, this one found…

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State and Federal Policy Round Up

“Listen in as state and federal policy experts weigh in on the major themes from 2022 and expectations for 2023. Julie Peller from Higher Learning Advocates walks through the major movements at the federal level and Paola Santana from Lumina Foundation discusses state-level priorities for the upcoming year. Catch up with state leaders from Arkansas,…

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Is For-Profit Higher Education on Its Last Legs? Key Podcast

“Does the possible sale of the University of Phoenix to a public university system signal the demise of the for-profit higher education sector that Phoenix once epitomized? This week’s episode of The Key analyzes the implications of recent news that a nonprofit affiliated with the University of Arkansas system might buy the former giant among for-profit…

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Policy Changes to Increase Access to Higher Ed

“Higher education is currently forcing many adult learners to jump through hoops to complete their degrees. Although many of these nontraditional students can be successful, colleges and universities should still meet adult learners where they are, as higher ed faces dwindling enrollment and a workforce that is relying less on employees with four-year degrees. Higher…

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Education Department Plans to Publish List of Low-Performing Programs

“Nearly a decade after the Obama administration broached the idea of rating colleges and universities, the Biden administration is ready to take another crack at the historically fraught concept. This time around, the administration is planning to publish a list of programs that are considered to have a low financial value to students and taxpayers.…

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Campaign to Increase Child Care Access for Today’s Students Gains More Support

WASHINGTON – Today, Higher Learning Advocates sent a letter to the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education that shows growing support from 54 organizations for HLA’s ongoing efforts to increase funding for the Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) Program. The letter urges Congress to boost CCAMPIS funding to $500…

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Higher Learning Advocates and 29 Partners Ask Congress to Restore Access to Federal Student Aid

WASHINGTON — Today, Higher Learning Advocates and 29 partners wrote a letter to the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education urging Congress to consider a Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) reset. Allowing a reset of SAP requirements will maximize college students’ persistence and success in their postsecondary education by supporting them in maintaining…

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