There’s no guarantee of how amenable Congress will be to maintaining much of the education platform in an election year, even with Democratic control. That’s probably why the ED Department also published today new recommendations for states to support educational development and student achievement.
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Texas colleges struggle to award $47 million in covid relief re-enrollment initiative
The number is far short of the 30,000 students that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s envisioned with his $47 million investment in the program since 2020.
For-profit college owners to pay for faltering schools
The US Department of Education is mandating that owners of these institutions will be responsible for making the federal government whole on student loan losses.
HBCU boards must resist the temptation of proving innovation through untested leadership
Boards must consider the time and temperature of their work and the long-term impacts they can create by miscalculating institutional fit between campus and leadership.
Florida to mandate financial literacy as requirement for high school graduation
Students entering high school next fall in Florida will be the first to have financial literacy education as a requirement for graduation from high school. The new rule was signed […]
LISTEN: Digest After Dark – Let's Go On Strike
We discuss the new Executive Director of the White House HBCU Initiative, threats of faculty strikes at Howard University, and leadership chaos at Kentucky State University.
HBCU DIGEST: Hampton to offer free tuition, room and board to Ukrainian refugees
Hampton University this week announced plans to offer free summer session tuition and housing to students displaced by Russian military aggression in Ukraine. “The collective Hampton University faculty, staff and […]
HBCU DIGEST: Total HBCU enrollment fell to lowest mark in 22 years in 2020
Hampered by a global pandemic, a nearly year-long hiatus from in-person business, and economic uncertainty, cumulative attendance for the historically Black college and university sector dropped for the third consecutive […]
HIGHER ED DIGEST: Projecting higher ed impact of United States' cyber warfare with Russia and China
Officials from the FBI and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced earlier this month that a number of state agencies, including colleges and universities, had been victimized by […]
HBCU DIGEST: Meharry announces $20 million gift from MacKenzie Scott
Meharry Medical College is the latest historically Black institution to announce a transformational gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, yesterday revealing a $20 million gift from the serial benefactor. In a […]
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