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Completion with Quality and Value: Why Credit for Prior Learning Stands out as a College Completion Fund Strategy
While the fate of the Build Back Better Act is currently unclear, there are parts of the proposed legislation that could survive in some form. One important part of the proposal is the College Completion Fund, a fund that could provide as much as $550 million for scaling evidence-based programs to improve retention and completion…
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates Submit Comments on Improving Students’ Access to Broadband Internet
WASHINGTON — Today, Higher Learning Advocates provided feedback on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) plans for the implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). Higher Learning Advocates was pleased to submit comments for review, particularly as affordability of broadband, accessibility of broadband, as well as flexibility in how broadband is accessed and where…
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates and 50 Partners Urge Congress to Increase CCAMPIS Funding
WASHINGTON — Today, Higher Learning Advocates and 48 partner organizations sent a letter to Congress to express our strong support for increasing funding for the Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) Program to $500 million—the amount needed to provide child care support to approximately 6 percent of Pell-eligible student parents of children ages…
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates and 24 Partners Urge Congress to Increase Access to Public Transportation on College Campuses
WASHINGTON — Today, 24 partner organizations joined Higher Learning Advocates to send a letter to Congress to express our strong support for the Promoting Advancement for Transit Help (PATH) to College Act, introduced by Representative Lamb (D-PA), Representative Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Representative Wilson (D-FL), and Representative Katko (R-NY). The PATH to College Act would create grants for public transit providers in…
Read MoreEmbedding Equity within Indiana’s Educational Attainment Goals
In early 2020, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education released its fourth strategic plan, Reaching Higher in a State of Change, which provides a vision and a blueprint focused on pathways for student success from the recent high school graduate to the returning adult—ensuring greater economic opportunity and a stronger Indiana. The Commission identified three…
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates Submits Comments on Department of Education’s Intent to Host Negotiated Rulemaking Related to 90/10
WASHINGTON — Today, Higher Learning Advocates submitted comments regarding the Department of Education’s intent to establish a negotiated rulemaking committee on the 90/10 rule and other matters impacting programs under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Read HLA’s full comments here.
Read MoreMaking College Work for Working People
The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the vital role that working people play in our nation and economy. Working people prepare hospital equipment and treat patients; they manufacture and distribute essential goods; they keep the internet and other critical utilities operating. While scores of working people have kept our country running during the pandemic, millions of others…
Read MoreNew Players are Emerging to Serve Returning Adult Learners—Federal Policy Needs to Reflect That.
2021 should be an eventful year for federal policy conversations related to postsecondary access and completion. However, much of the national discussion has centered on removing barriers to traditional higher education. Such approaches rarely account for the needs of the adult learners that are now the majority on college campuses or those learners of all…
Read MoreHigher Learning Advocates & 29 Partners Applauds the Passage of the National Student Parent Month Resolution
WASHINGTON — Today, Higher Learning Advocates and 29 partner organizations sent a letter to Senator Tammy Duckworth and Senator Jerry Moran to thank them for their commitment to student parents and to congratulate them on the passage of S.Res. 362, National Student Parent Month, designating September 2021 as the first annual “National Student Parent Month.”…
Read MoreA Second Chance at Higher Education
Growing up in a low socioeconomic area in Phoenix, Arizona, surrounded by gangs, violence, and drugs, I never thought that college was a place for me. Instead, as a teen, I envisioned myself selling drugs, robbing people, and spending most of my days in prison. So when I was 20 years old and was sentenced…
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