The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 7, 2024

I taught a first-year experience class one time and wore a tie every day because I felt like I was supposed to, and at the end of the semester, four or five students had written on the evaluations, ‘My favorite day was when you didn't wear a tie, 'cause you were applicable and real.’ That really hit home for me. The system also honored Dr.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

But if you come together and say, ‘This is a community college project,’ and half of the community colleges in the state are all doing one application, you're more likely to find success. When I came back to West Virginia, I wrote a Strengthening Community Colleges project in collaboration with colleagues in Parkersburg.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Access, affordability, and free speech will continue to make headlines in higher education. Efforts by the Biden administration to pass a rule on student loan forgiveness was a major story from 2023 that will again be front and center in the new year. That rule will likely, immediately get challenged in court,” says Kelchen.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

A Texas district judge ’s decision to str ike down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan Thursday is a significant blow to the future of the program, according to experts. Department of Education pulled down the online application for forgiveness. In response to the ruling, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This latest relief brings the total number of public service workers who have had their student loans forgiven under the Biden-Harris administration to over 1 million. Before Biden took office, only 7,000 borrowers had received forgiveness through PSLF, highlighting the transformative impact of the administration's reforms to the program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

after the Trump administration froze green cards and visas for foreign workers. In 2022, 50% of African student visa applications were denied, compared to just 10% for European applicants. Student in the| Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies program in the School of Education at Howard University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel nearly half a trillion dollars of student debt, his administration moved quickly to show that it wasn’t giving up. “I Indeed, the Biden administration appears to have considered it in 2021. When the U.S. This fight is not over.” The text says, ‘any claim.’

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Exploitation of military-connected students While the average student has federal loan limits, military veterans can take out more in federal loans, said Dr. Robert Kelchen, a professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Code is unambiguous: No provision of any applicable program shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over curriculum. This provision has stood as a safeguard to protect local control over education for decades.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the year winds down, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and administration are left to wonder what comes next in higher education. He explained that many campus administrators are self-imposing various versions of DEI rollbacks even when not legislatively mandated. The re-election of President Donald J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2024

They’ll argue that the Biden administration tried but was unsuccessful, thanks to Republican opposition and a conservative U.S. Robert Kelchen Democrats are likely to make the student loan debt relief issue a major campaign talking point. Supreme Court, to provide relief and forgiveness to millions of borrowers.

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