Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic dawned in Spring 2020, the federal government granted institutions of higher education a series of waivers and flexibilities that allowed them to continue functioning under radically different conditions. This adjustment may be an administratively complex process. It sort of starts a clock.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 25, 2023

“Unfortunately, in the last several years, colleges and universities and financial aid offices have gotten used to a political game of chicken in Washington, D.C., Colleges are hoping that a potential default would be short and have a limited effect on students, given that aid is mostly distributed in the fall or winter. “If

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

After months of uncertainty for borrowers, the Biden administration’s student loan debt cancellation program, which offers $10,000 of relief to those making up to $125,000 and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients, came before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, in oral arguments that stretched for over an hour past their scheduled time.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 28, 2023

This will adversely affect the college plans of students planning to apply in the 2023-24 admissions cycle as well as students who need to re-apply for Federal aid each year. The National College Attainment Network ( NCAN ) contacted senior Biden administration officials seeking reassurance, but got no satisfactory response.

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College Planners of America

AUGUST 29, 2024

Despite this cooperative effort, student aid programs have failed to keep pace with rising tuition because colleges just boost their tuition ever higher. College administrators are well aware that many students will simply borrow more Federal funds to attend. On the same day that Ross issued his injunction, U.S.

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College Planners of America

AUGUST 29, 2024

Despite this cooperative effort, student aid programs have failed to keep pace with rising tuition because colleges just boost their tuition ever higher. College administrators are well aware that many students will simply borrow more Federal funds to attend. On the same day that Ross issued his injunction, U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

The plan would have offered $10,000 of relief to borrowers making under $125,000 and $20,000 to those who had received Pell grants, for an estimated $430 billion of forgiveness. However, Jonathan Glater, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, thought that any attempt to do so was likely to meet the same fate.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 24, 2024

Students and, for those who are dependents, their parents, fill it out and submit it to the ED. But most students still don’t have information on the net cost of colleges when they need it most—in time to identify the best school for them and enroll in it. Students eligible for Pell Grants have been denied because they are dependents.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 24, 2024

Students and, for those who are dependents, their parents, fill it out and submit it to the ED. But most students still don’t have information on the net cost of colleges when they need it most—in time to identify the best school for them and enroll in it. Students eligible for Pell Grants have been denied because they are dependents.

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