Every day, colleges and universities are facing new and difficult realities as they address the unprecedented circumstances brought about by COVID-19. There are countless emerging concerns that require immediate attention and resources. Accreditation agencies have made extraordinary efforts to embrace flexibility and innovation while remaining focu...

Shifting Indiana’s higher education learning system to an online delivery model overnight would have seemed impossible at the beginning of 2020. Yet here we are, reckoning with the impact of our campuses shut down for months on end with classes hastily pushed online and uncertainty about what will happen in the fall. The fallout of…

Higher education—and sweeping aspects of American life—were upended seemingly overnight in March. Millions of students started the month on campuses across the country and ended it on computers at home. Now, after institutional leaders have absorbed the initial shock and navigated through the spring and into summer, they’re looking to map out...

Executive Director Julie Peller appeared on NPR’s Marketplace to discuss Texas A&M’s $100 million scholarship fund to address diversity on its campuses. Hear the interview here.

WASHINGTON — Sixty-one organizations came together today to urge Congress to include the Supporting Connectivity for Higher Education Students in Need Act in the next relief package. The Supporting Connectivity for Higher Education Students in Need Act,  which would provide college and university students with much needed internet connectivity s...

It has been inspiring and hopeful to see higher education leaders, including those who lead large community college systems, speaking out about systemic racism against the Black community and the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and several other African Americans who became the latest victims of our country’s original sin....

As Congress prepares for another round of stimulus legislation this summer, the unprecedented financial challenges confronting public colleges and universities remain a pressing issue facing lawmakers. There have been a host of disagreements on the best federal policy approach to help higher education, such as the appropriate funding levels and use...

WASHINGTON — Higher Learning Advocates and fifty partner organizations submitted testimony on the Child Care Access Means Parents in Schools (CCAMPIS) program to the Senate LHHS Subcommittee. Specifically, the organizations expressed their strong support for increasing funding for CCAMPIS to $200 million, the amount needed to provide child care s...

Today’s students didn’t need a pandemic. They didn’t need the added financial pressures, their kids at home, and their lives interrupted. They also didn’t need a pandemic to know that higher education wasn’t built for too many of them, or that changes need to happen to support their success. Today’s students—adult students, student pa...

When I was asked to contribute to this blog, I wanted to sit down and write a piece full of professional assurance and effortless insight. Something pithy and quotable that captures a moment in higher education. But then I thought a little bit more about this particular moment in higher education and I am equal…

The great pandemic of 2020 has unarguably changed the way we do business and function in our day to day lives. Routines have been disrupted, and nothing feels “normal.” Higher education is no exception. After our governor issued a stay-at-home order, Colorado’s institutions quickly made the difficult decision to extend spring break; send...

The Higher Learning Advocates team sat down with José Luis Cruz, Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost at The City University of New York, to learn more about CUNY’s response to COVID-19 in New York City, previously the epicenter of the pandemic in the U.S. Q: The coronavirus pandemic has affected colleges, and students, across&he...