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GCC president, legislators respond to Biden’s free community college plan HINDS SALOMON-FERNANDEZ Students leave Greenfield Community College’s main campus in March 2020.President Joe Biden has proposed $109 billion for two years of free community college Staff File Photo/PAUL FRANZ Published: 4/30/2021 4:55:21 PM GREENFIELD — Greenfield Community College President Yves Salomon-Fernández says it’s great to have a United States president who values higher education and wants to keep ...

Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), 2021 contains provisions that expand those provided by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES Act), as well as important policy changes to higher education. One of the biggest results of the CAA includes changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which is completed by prospective and current college students each academic year to determine their financial aid eligibility. The new provisions will show up on the 202...

Share As I have extensively discussed in the previous editions, private universities are the flagship of the Nigerian education sector as the premier private universities have consistently outperformed the public universities in terms of quality education, technological advancements, infrastructures, etc. To put this contention in proper perspective, last week, I highlighted some of the accolades attributed to the Afe Babalola University which has been remarked as the ‘model, benchmark and re...

These are live pictures. look at that. aerials of a raging fire in suburban houston. a chemical plant burning since sunday. some are components used in gasoline, fueling it literally. schools are back open after health officials say air quality is normal. officials warn this fire could burn another day or two. the cause of this is under investigation. the trump administration wants to impose limits on student loan borough. right now the limit a student can borrow is capped at $57,500. the admi...

Designed to provide quality cost effective health care. its to make the drug companies have billions and billions of dollars in profits as well as the insurance companies. so when we talk about our national priority -- it is not just taxes. it is what taxes do for the american people. if you cut taxes for the rich and up dont have the money to do the right things, then youre left to the situation which senator cruz is in. trillion dollar cuts in medicaid. 15 million people losing their medicaid....

Save the government $18 billion. they offset the big boost to defense spending. cutting where? the steepest reduction 3 billion in cuts to education including $1.2 billion less for teacher grants. they say they are unproven. 1.3 billion to surpluses in the pell grant program. the funding for pell grants is a constant battle every year. these are really important money for poor students. document shows 1.6 billion decrease to housing and urban development programs and a billion in reductions to i...

Blueprint documents viewed by cnn shows a long list of new cuts that could save the government $18 billion this year and help offset that big boost in defense spending. the steepest cut, $3 billion to education programs, 1.2 billion less for teacher oriented grants. and 1.3 billion cut to surpluses in the pell grant program. officials tell us that still leaves it with enough funding. the pell grant program critical for poor students to afford rising costs of college. 1 point of view 6 billion to...

Place and send your kids to school. that was the experience that i had as a kid. can our presidential candidates and id love to hear what each candidate would say about this, begin to move us towards a place where every parent, every parent can confidently send their child to the local neighborhood school and be certain that they are getting high quality education? >> absolutely. but i think its important that in a lot of our inner sticities and cities we have a dropout rate. the civil rights is...

Princeton. and princeton has an enormous endowment and made a choice as part of the enormous endowment to create a no loans program where they basically accept students need blind and then once you are accepted they look at your financial circumstances and then provide jobs and grant opportunities up to that point. that is fine, because princeton has an obscenely wonderful endowment, but is there a way as we as a country might imagine ourselves endowed similarly. human capital is the most import...